August 2025

Here are my drawings from August. It is a struggle to get back into drawing everyday when the routine is upended but I think I am back into it now.

Went to Boston for the long weekend at the end of the month, it’s only ~3 hours away, I just never got around to visiting it before now. Massachusetts feels like a fictional place. I don’t know how well I can really elaborate on that, but maybe you get what I mean. I had similar feelings visiting Philadelphia but this is more extreme. What do you mean all those things I read for how ever many years in American history class took place here? Oh yeah, there’s one of the “ugliest buildings in America”, Boston City Hall, that’s also here (I actually quite like it, it knows what it is trying to be). What do you mean the Little Women house is real, and all these transcendentalist figures I had to write about for whatever essay lived right here and were in the same social circles? Concord grapes are named after Concord, Massachusetts (and I visited the originator’s grave)?? I haven’t been to Salem or Plymouth yet… Massachusetts is just crammed full of history. So I know I’ll be back.