I Don't Know Anything

felt tip pen on cardboard

Alhambra 1988

I drew this at a party one night in 1988. There was a pen and a piece of cardboard on a table so I sat down and drew this, with everyone partying around me. It's filled with nervous energy because I was.

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We, in this imminent fall, still dream

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

Today's drawing

Cigarettes after sex - Opera House

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ex moleskines

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2023

Drawings from my molskines.

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2022

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

Me, hanging out in Calbayog City, Philippines, 2023

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Time and Entropy

black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2009

Time and entropy arise mutually like a boat and its wake.

Entropy is fractal which means that time never began.

So relax.

Relax

black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2009

Flowers for Jasmine

black sharpie and crayon

Westwood 1988

I started out long before I began...

The thing about this particular pattern is that I never really figured out what I was doing. I just drew, and the pieces just fit.

... actually, I never really even began...

This one I added color. I had some old crayons lying around and, it turned out nicely.

... things just somehow fit together.

Amber Leigh Irish - Yellow

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Sleep

watercolor, los angeles, 2016

When I can't sleep I close my eyes and visualize drawing. Sometimes I visualize drawing with the pencil. Other times I see the brush laying down pigments. At some point my mind becomes interested in the drawing and I begin to dream...

watercolor, los angeles, 2016

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going home

colored pencil and pen on paper

Los Angeles 2018

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everyone rushes around in a great panic as if it is necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

-- Alan Watts

colored pencil and ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2018

black sharpie

Hollywood 2018

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The fallen fruit

black sharpie

Los Angeles 2017

The things that we are not allowed to talk about are pretty much always true. Prove me wrong. Likewise, fruit is sweetest just when it is about to fall.

If Eve had waited for the apple to fall would she still have sinned?

final layer

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I added another layer to this drawing, and I'm thinking it's done. Not gonna lie, I like it.

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black sharpie

Hollywood CA 2019

A couple more older drawings just because they're cool.

This morning my eight year old son Sean told me matter of factly, "Frogs can jump higher than the Eiffel Tower."

"No they can't." I said.

"But dad," he said starting to laugh, "the Eiffel Tower can't jump."

Moments like these I just sit back and take it.

Presently he controlled his laugh and asked me,

"Daddy, do you know why dinosaurs don't eat fish?

He looked at me innocently.

"No." I said and braced myself.

"Cuz they're dead!"

He's holding his sides laughing.

We were in my office. I was working on a drawing. He sat down on the floor and began playing with his legos.

Presently he looked up at me and asked, "Daddy, are the suction cups on octopus tentacles like plungers?"

I paused for a moment to take in that image.

"Yah," I said, "pretty much so."

"They don't let in the air." he said knowingly like he'd already figured this one out. Then he stopped and thought for a moment like wait a second..

"Daddy," he asked me, "is there air in water?"

"Well, yah," I said, "There is air disolved in water."

"Then why can't we breath under water?" He asked.

Hmmm.. That's actually a good question. How can I explain..

My mind raced for a moment considering semi-permeable membranes, concentration gradients, oxygen partial pressure, selective transport, hemoglobin binding capacity.. and..

I breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed.

That shit's over.

"Little dude, we're in the Philippines now." I laughed. "Go ask an octopus."

"Hey dad." He said after a moment. "Do you know why the skeleton didn't climb he mountain."

I braced mysef.

"Cuz he didn't have the guts." He said. Running away laughing.

Calbayog City 2024

black sharpie

Hollywood CA 2019