infinite series of movements
medium : watercolour, pencil & ink on paper
dimensions : 3 1/2″ wide x 4 1/2″ high

There are quite a few of these floating around, about 150 of them. This image of the ladder and the light at the top first occured in collaboration with my friend B. B is five years old now but when I first met him he was nearly two. I had been hired by his parents to mind him and his brother M (who was ten months old) on an ongoing and weekly basis. The best job I’ve ever been paid to do yet was hanging out with those boys, walking all over town, naming plants, singing, being children.

B and me had our first conversation over crayons and things took off from there. From the beginning B was very good with a crayon in his fist, making big energetic swarms of colours on the paper we were sharing. We developed a habit of collusion which had me drawing with the black crayon and B filling in. One of B’s early words was moon. I drew many of them in various phases, meanwhile thinking up other things that could be rendered in simple line form, things B would recognize. His obsession was tractors, I threw in houses, people, and one morning, looking at the paper, I saw a ladder. When you’re in the country, around lots of fruit trees and barns and whatnot you see a lot of ladders. So I leaned the ladder up against the moon …

A year later we were drawing them on pavement with chalk whenever it wasn’t raining or winter. We drew lots of other things too of course but always the ladder.

At around that time I was walking with a friend to visit other friends for coffee. My hands went into my pockets just for something to do and I discovered a chunk of chalk so I drew a quick one on the road. My friend stopped to look at it. He was quiet, studied it, then pointing at the light asked me; ” Is it God?”

Good question.

This is why I’m hoping to keep up with the blue rabbit, quick rabbit, quantum rabbit.