NOTES:
Not so much a collage as a collection of images that builds up as I'm writing a journal, this one from 1983 - 1984. Based on the pictures on the wall, the picture at the bottom of Dorinda and me playing together is from Bridgeton, NJ -- no doubt Dad & Edna's house on Jay Avenue. We look happy.
The woman on the slide of course is Nena and she looks happy, too. These were perhaps dramatic but oh so happy times.
Stage Crew - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980
From journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980.
This appears to be a set design, possibly for The Great Brain Robbery, but I'm not certain since at the time I had been in rehearsal for and developing "en grade" at the Playwright's Center on Kinzie Street in Chicago. It did not get any farther than a staged reading, which was impacted by a massive snow storm so our audience was only four or five people.
This could also be just a random drawing. It is smeared from water damage caused by the fire on Elm Street at Dorinda's rented home in Lewisville, CO in 2008.
dorinda likes to doodle
daringly on napkins
unseen unnoticed by
the scramblers eating eggs
or sipping bitter coffee
sometimes she pops out a song
or sketches a summer scene
from somewhere no one's been
now here i am in Chicago
frozen to the bone
doodling on a napkin
and wishing i was home
but, lacking that i
send a pre-doodled napkin
to someone who appreciates
napkins and things.
douglas brent smith
Filling the spaces, sketch by douglas brent smith, 1976
The doodle sketches of a busy time, from Journal#9, Midwest Blue, 1976-1977. Letting go, moving on, trying on Chicago for size, while also re-inventing in New Jersey. The notes on this page span a wide amount of time with notes for plays in Chicago and rehearsal with -- DD -- in NJ and a Polaroid picture of Annie herself, standing outside 2065 Pennington Road. Not sure that any of this is noteworthy much less art worthy but here it is anyway. History.