Day Books, the art-as-life of Sharon Frost, one page after another.

Todavía, Todos los fuegos al fuego, Che. 19 Mayo, 2012. (Still All Fires the Fire, Che)

8 1/4 x 10 in. double-page Moleskine cahier spread; watercolor, ink, guoache, whatever, on paper.

4th Avenue, Brooklyn. And Cortázar on Kindle. 

The interactive Spanish-English dictionary makes me feel like I really am reading and I guess I am.  Words like pantanos (bogs) and barro (mud) are accessible and you're tramping with Che and his asthma in the swamp  (ciénaga).

La autopista del sur. 15 mayo, 2012. Brooklyn. (The Southern Thruway)

 

(I'm wanted at the traffic jam, they're saving me a seat.  Leonard Cohen and Julio Cortázar)

8 1/4 x 10 in. double-page Moleskine cahier spread; watercolor, ink, whatever on paper.

La enfermidad de los sanos. 28 abríl, 2012. (The sickness of the healthy)

6 x 8 in.; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stillman & Birn paper.

(The sickness of the well.)

La burbuja temporal. 27 abríl, 2012.

8 1/4 x 10 in. double-page  Moleskine cahier spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on paper.

(The time bubble on the F train.))

La luz es como el agua en la linea F en Brooklyn. 13 abril, 2012. (Light is like water.)

(We're all here, navigating the light, in the subway.)

6 x 8 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stillman & Birn paper.

The trip home from 3 hours of Spanish class almost always has my head buzzing between languages. I was reading a Gabriel García Márquez short story on my Kindle.  We had been working with it in class: children with a rowboat, floating on light from a broken lightbulb in the living room: water, like light. Magic images like that can make a lot of sense on the subway.

Estoy ensimismada en las palabras de Cortázar, con Kindle, en Brooklyn. 8 abril, 2012. Lost in the words of Cortázar, with Kindle, en Brooklyn)

6 x 8 in.; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stillman & Birn paper.

(El Perseguidor, with dictionary, mate and lights.)

Y boludo, "antes de que" tome el subjuntivo. 30 marzo, 2012. (And boludo, "antes de que" takes the subjunctive.)

(In the Brooklyn Commune, reading in Spanish, time passes.)

6 x 8 in; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stillman & Birn paper.

Con más o menos duda en la linea F. 16 Marzo, 2012. (With more or less doubt, on the F train.)

(It's possible that the Subjunctive might be a fiction.)

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stonehenge paper.

La vuelta de español: tres trenes (M/F/otro F), leyendo "Subjuntivo" 9 Marzo, 2012.

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever on Stonehenge paper.

(Church Street stop, and we change for the last time.)

 

Los peligros del subte, la linea F. 2 Marzo, 2012. (The dangers of the F train.)

7 x 14 in. double-page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Stonehenge paper. (Everywhere there are instructions for survival.)