Lauren Harper

The website for writer Lauren Harper.

Kay Nielsen Dreams

A Kay Nielsen inspired something or other.

babe in the city

My kingdom for some running water.

On the plus side, at least now my hand is killing me.

Oddball

I recently read a really interesting article on memento mori in medieval and Renaissance Europe and was struck by the irreverence and humor surrounding it. And that definitely crept into something that was initially just a sketch based on Albert Besnard’s Discreet.

Pollinators

Pollinators: the lesbian urge to spend your 20s smoking on a balcony and looking miserable.

This is based on a 1968 Donna Gottschalk photo. She used photography in the 60s and 70s to “attempt to fathom” what it meant to be a lesbian when there was virtually no representation of it. Her stuff is extremely intimate and more than a little pensive and melancholic. Which is understandable. But queer joy is important so I threw a few flowers in there

Why yes, I am extremely behind at work. How could you tell?

A sketch of Vivian Maier’s photo entitled, December 1962, Chicago, IL. I’m guessing it was taken at the Art Institute, my favorite place in that great city, but I’m not positive. The painting the men

VMs Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street. September, 1956. NYC

Based on another Vivian Maier picture from NYC but I like to imagine they’ve just been tossed out of Jimmy’s

Election Day mood: half-hoping to be swallowed by the waves

Vivian Maier, street 2, September 1953. NYC

Bird Boy - another sketch of a Vivian Maier photo, this one taken in NYC

A sketch of Nigel van Wieck’s Q Train

brain drain

cardiac cactus

behind the butts

hipster skeleton rider

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arizona self-portrait

bust of a beleaguered warrior

teresa in tiles AKA electric ecstasy. made with sharpies.

horsin' around

city cactus

sonora sunrise

Moses up close (still in the Mojave)

self portrait blue filter

magic man, man.

Fun Using Too Much Paint

Technicolor Hedgehog

women's march

Evolution

Jurassic Grosh

RAWRR.

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