ink and colored pencil on 8 ply mat board
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vertigo
Wednesday night I came down with a fit of vertigo (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) if you’ve had it you know how disorienting and distressing it can be. I had it once before in 2006 or 2007, so at least I knew what I was in for. Friday was the worst, but by Saturday I could feel it subsiding. Saturday night I drew two pictures simultaneously. The thing with vertigo is that your eyes tell you one thing and your inner-ear balance systems tell you another thing, making your brain go back and forth between two competing realities.
While I was drawing I thought it would make sense to “double expose” the images when I was done. So the first image is a combination of both drawings, and the other two images are the drawings. 
(originally posted to Instagram)
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reworked
I recently went through a box of drawings and stumbled across one from 2017 that didn’t look quite complete. It was dated 5/20/17, so at the time I must have considered it done. I went back to work on it, adding more lines, dots and details. Once completed (again) I added the new date 9/10/18. Makes me wonder how many other things I could continue on, and for how long.
The past weekend I attended a lot of art openings in Los Angeles, which I hadn’t done in a long time. The Chinatown galleries and the Bendix building, as well as a stop at Hauser and Wirth, and the next day dropped into the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Anaximander’s Dream
Original painting , or fine art prints, available for sale: Saatchi Art
Anaximander’s Dream
John Otter
Painting
Size: 30 H x 24 W x 1.5 in
John Otter 