We went back to watching Jurgen’s pencil flying over the paper, turning black lines into a forklift. We showed him the CTV logo on the microphone.

“Can I ask where you are from?” a security guard on a bicycle asked. Now this is not just art this is a challenge.Īnd he is super quick, so nothing else could happen, right? Sketching in real life takes determination.Īnd that is when we saw him and started taking pictures-of him drawing pictures.īut then, in front of that second boat, a forklift pulled up and stopped. When the boat was blocked by another boat, he started on yet another boat. Sometimes still life: buildings and bridges, which stand still, and sometimes things that don’t stand still. Then there were the flowers which went out of sight when a car parked next to them. It was half-done because it walked away before the other half was done. It is part of the excitement of sketching things. He said this kind of thing happens often. He was sketching a sail boat when some workers pulled another boat in front of it. Jurgen, who we met sketching on Granville Island, can tell you all about that.

had no pedestal as yet, but stood flat in the mud, with Young America most symbolically making dirt pies.the Emancipation Act gave the statue a nobler and more enduring pedestal than any marble or granite Emancipation proclamation trickish, lazy and ignorant, yet.quick to feel and accept the least token of the brotherly love Slavery makes southern black people The men would swear at the 'darkies,' would put two gs into negro.The nurses were willing to be served by the colored people, but seldom thanked them Racist insults As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes, my view of hospital life must be taken through my glass, and held for what it is worth.Sometimes, the stories behind the stories are better than the stories themselves. his mind had suffered more than his body PTSD 'I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done' John's view of war The statue of Liberty. Bravery of soldier Boy with lost leg and arm 'soon to follow', ' think this cleaning up a jolly thing for us, though I'm afraid it isn't for you ladies.' Soldier's pity for nurse 'on the Judgment Day: wonder if we shall get our own again? If we do, my leg will have to tramp from Fredericksburg.' Vision of Judgement Day privately resolved to put soap in his eyes, rub his nose the wrong way.if I had the washing of him. Army of smells with an uncomplaining fortitude, which made one glad to cherish each as a brother. To gird my woman's form,/ And on the ramparts die Her vow suffered untold agonies, but concealed them under as matronly an aspect as a spinster could assume Suffering of nurses The first thing I met was a regiment of the vilest odors that ever assaulted the human nose, and took it by storm.

Hospital sketches