Most of the auction items of late have been of the Bobbledy mold. Cute animals or endearing scenes of cheerful happenings that one might hang on a nursery wall. This week we have something a bit more dignified, a bit more mysterious, a bit more…Robbi. She is not by nature a purveyor of sweetness. When you dig below the smiling exterior, she is a seething pit of coal black vipers, each of which is nursing a host of unnerving questions on the nature of man and being. Now that her hair has been shorn, there is even less insulating between the contents of her head and the unsuspecting world outside.
The other day Robbi sat down and started to draw. And draw and draw and draw. By the time she was done, she had created 30 or so new pen and ink compositions, some of which were cute and fuzzy, but plenty of which were not. I was particularly drawn to this profile of a solitary elephant, and asked her to paint him for me.
I am in love with this drawing and am considering bidding to own him for myself. Robbi insists that this would defeat the purpose, but I insist that occasionally the purpose has to be defeated.
Here he is up close. Notice his noble golden tusks.
And here on the painting table, fresh from the final stroke of the brush.
If you care to challenge me for the right to hang him on your wall, bidding is happening over on Ebay. the auction closes at 12:30pm this coming Sunday.
