I have got to log this for posterity. I just freaked myself out bigtime! Went out to do an errand, and for some reason as I got home and was walking to the door, I thought of something. This came out of the blue!
Back in 1988 I was kind of doodling at my drawing one night. I do mostly portraits, so I was drawing a face, male , young but not a teenager. i had no particular guidelines; I was just doing it to do it. Okay, I finished, liked what I saw, so eventually it ended up in my portfolio. That was the end of that -just an attractive face, anonymously all mine. I figured I might have drawn myself even, but made somewhat masculine. I put it away and unlessI was looking at it, forgot about it.
tonight, I was driving around with billy harvey's Pie album in the car CD player. no biggie- been listening to it a lot lately. It has just fit my mood. I got out of the car, and I was walking to the door, it hit me- that old anonymous drawing was no longer anonymous- it was Billy.
I pulled out the drawing and sure enough it looked like the guy on the CD cover. They are small pictures, so I went to the net and found a more or less frontal picture of him. And sat there absolutely shocked. Seventeen years ago, I drew that face!
I don't know what it means if anything, but I am freaked.
he will be in town next week. I will have to compare it with the live one.
Wild.