
Pink Lady
Pluck’d from tree B4 it fell
It’s a Beauty bella bella
Nestled in the eater:s hand
Kinda tart yet sweet as candy

Pink Lady
Pluck’d from tree B4 it fell
It’s a Beauty bella bella
Nestled in the eater:s hand
Kinda tart yet sweet as candy
Remember, Friends, Presto is Italian not for Abracadabra, but for Quickly.

My friend Niccolea M. Nance and I recently celebrated our eleventh-year “Friendaversary” on Facebook. Facebook generated a montage, mostly of photos Ms. Nance had taken, and wished us well. And this morning I had been working on an index-card drawing I started a couple of days ago, an out-of-scale “two-shot,” and it needed something…the two talking to each other would make word balloons that would be visual elements…but the balloons wouldn’t allow much to be said…hey wait! Niccolea back in the day called herself Miouo, and pronounced it “Me/You.” And that is how this odd tribute came to be.

For the last three days, panel by panel, this ink drawing took form. As I finished a panel I would scan and post it on Facebook. That is why this megapanel is multi-signed. It created a nifty compositional challenge that was its own solution: the signatures became a motif.