Category: Drawings
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Emmy Shafer, 1980
“Shafer was a Russian-born immigrant who had managed to survive eighteen months in a concentration camp at Dachau during the Second World War. … [She] spoke six languages, none of them Spanish.” – Nicholas Griffin, The Year of Dangerous Days
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Maggie’s Farm
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreNo, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreWell, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rainI got a head full of ideas that are drivin’ me insaneIt’s a shame, the way she makes me scrub the floorI ain’t gonna work…
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Doppel Man
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Jacob and Esau, Updated
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Car Travel
When I was a kid, cars had bench seats for the front-side passengers, and nobody (not even kids) wore seatbelts.
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Talk Circle
In the evenings, the men in my family would gather in the patch of ground next to the driveway and talk about Cuba. Sometimes it got rather loud.
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Cafetera
Growing up in a Miami Cuban household, the “cafetera” was constantly in play. I never saw this type of espresso maker anywhere else when I was a kid, so I assumed it was of Cuban design, but it was actually invented by an Italian named Otello Amleto Spadini in 1937.
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Butterfly on the Homestead
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Airplane Dream
In the dream, I was in the open and unusually spacious cockpit of a commercial jet. The pilot was taxiing on the streets of Downtown Miami. It was raining, and I told my fellow passengers that the plane had huge windshield wipers. As if to demonstrate, the pilot immediately switched on the windshield wipers.
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Beverly