Such a Pretty Face
“Every summer Grandma bought me and Helen new paints, pastel crayons, colored pencils, and sketch books. I always ended up watching Helen. She had inherited her talent from her grandma, who had inherited her talent through the family line, via her aunt.
“I’m going to draw my mind…I’m going to draw what’s in it so you’ll understand where Punk is, girl kid,” she’d tell me. “I’m not going to draw Command Center. He said no. He’s bad.”
The drawing of her mind? A mass of swirls, a collage of angry animals with sharp teeth, pieces of limbs, a dead cat, flowers that appeared to have their own demented minds, open doors with blackness behind them, a noose, a woman cowering in a corner.
“I’m going to draw this place, with all the spies.” Our red barn became a blurry, curving building, every blade of grass in front of it twisting. Behind the barn, she’d drawn a shadow. “That’s Punk,” she told me. “Always watching me.” For days or weeks she would work on the same picture, every crack in each boar...d of the barn drawn with copious care, every hair of a horse or dog individually drawn, until they were living, thriving things on their own.MoreLess
“I’m going to draw my mind…I’m going to draw what’s in it so you’ll understand where Punk is, girl kid,” she’d tell me. “I’m not going to draw Command Center. He said no. He’s bad.”
The drawing of her mind? A mass of swirls, a collage of angry animals with sharp teeth, pieces of limbs, a dead cat, flowers that appeared to have their own demented minds, open doors with blackness behind them, a noose, a woman cowering in a corner.
“I’m going to draw this place, with all the spies.” Our red barn became a blurry, curving building, every blade of grass in front of it twisting. Behind the barn, she’d drawn a shadow. “That’s Punk,” she told me. “Always watching me.” For days or weeks she would work on the same picture, every crack in each boar...d of the barn drawn with copious care, every hair of a horse or dog individually drawn, until they were living, thriving things on their own.MoreLess
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