Drawn By: Jea
Year: 2011 (September)
We All get Swallowed By the earth.
The only part of this drawing whose meaning I can be completely certain of is the thumb-turned-fiddlehead. It doesn’t look all that much like a fiddlehead, as the leaves are on the outside instead of on the inside, but I drew on memory and feeling rather than a reference.
If the tree was a place to metaphorically hang pain, then the fiddlehead represented the pain of being belittled. I have a childhood memory of being taken down a peg by adults for not having wanted to put an alien looking vegetable in my mouth. It seemed like a logical thing for me to refuse to eat, as a child. It’s strange how experiences that tiny can wedge themselves so deeply into your consciousness.
I suppose you could say that the face hanging off of the pinky finger is low-hanging fruit.
A stoic expression is a lot more sensitive than it lets on.