On Valentines Day 2021 I went drifting around Princeton’s campus to take inspiration from what I saw, heard, and felt. This is a composite of my sketches and notes made during the walk.
SOs caught snapping pics on V-day
Light in the iceberg
Passage to another world
Sketch:
SOs looking at a photo just taken
Lamppost buried in the snow
Arch leading to open portion of campus
Bikes buried in snow, Winter Traps
Ironman with their friend the snowman
Sketch:
Bikes buried in snow
Iron abstract sculpture next to snowman
Mosaic trees upheld by true wood
Sketch:
Artistic bench, bent pieces of wood create an inverted arch to sit on
Trees bending over a sidewalk, nature bends to our needs
Sketch:
Trees bending over a sidewalk
Life and death meet and face off unceremoniously
Living Ivy
Dead Ivy
Sketch:
Portion of a wall wrapped with Ivy, part living part dead
Remnants of the past: the stoic and the awed (First Lions)
Sketch:
Shocked lion face
Stern lion face
Central staircase
DPS. Big department, itty bitty living space
Sketch:
cramped DPS office space
Brick building (monotone) with polychromatic abstract ceiling mural in arch throughway
Lost in the Prox-ess
Sketch:
Companion trying to sort out a prox replacement
Ice sculpture in Palmer Square
Sketch:
Doves wrapped into the shape of a heart
“Shot Through the Heart” V-day Coffee -> Valentine’s Day themed espresso -> coffee increases heart rate & perspiration -> false sense of love
Line to Kung-Fu Tea despite COVID guidelines; people are restless to return to normalcy
Frozen in time & place
Sketch:
Clock with roman numerals frozen in time