When I was eighteen I visited Germany with my family. When we were taking a tour of a vineyard in Bad Dürkheim, I snapped a photo of this window and thought it would make a nice drawing. I never got around to making that drawing when I got home though, and I eventually I forgot all about it. My mother was recently cleaning out the house and she found the photo and requested that I finally make that drawing.
I did finally got around to making it – almost ten years later! I gave it to my parents for Christmas this year. Here is a photo that Chris took of me drawing it a few weeks ago:
The other day I got a text message from my dad saying that he was studying it under a magnifying glass. Yesterday I got a phone call from my mother saying that she and my dad were arguing over which one of them I made it for and I had to explain that I meant it for both of them – for the house, so to speak. I gave it to my dad to open, but I wrote “To Mom AND Dad” on the tag!
2 Comments