I had to take a rotten picture of the drawing I've chosen for this entry, even though I have a fairly good scan of the picture, because Apple sucks! The syncing didn't go well, or I messed up the syncing, and since I'm a customer that means they messed it up, or maybe Microsoft messed it up. Those guys. Never trust a company with publicly traded stocks, for complicated reasons that I won't go into because I wouldnt have any idea of how to draw a picture illustrating the situation. But now that I say that I've already got something in mind.
Anyway, I wanted to use this picture, because I wanted a picture of a cabin and for some reason in my memory it was a cabin, but as the Reader can see, it is not really a cabin:
I was kind of envisioning the scene as taking place in a ski resort type of village, an alpine village, but my general inability to draw, which is a grievous failing for someone who wants to be an artist, hindered the vibe of that alpine village from emerging.
I wanted a cabin because I have just finished reading One Man's Wilderness, a book taken from the journal of Dick Proenecke (spelling?), a guy who built a cabin in Alaska and lived in it mostly alone for a large portion of his life. Kind of like a non-fiction version of Walden. In his journal Proenecke goes on about the difference between building something completely on your own with your own hands, and the difference in the feeling you have about your work when it's all yours, and I felt a deep sympathy with what he was doing, and I felt like I understood his desire to go live by himself in the wilderness, I felt it would appeal to me to do the same, except of course that if I tried to do the same thing I would quickly die, and I recognized that whereas Proenecke could build a cabin and outhouse out of trees he cut down himself, and use a gun to kill a ram for food, and fix everything himself, I would be able to draw some awkward pictures of the wilderness before I froze or starved. And I came to the realization that my cabin in the wilderness, where I go to escape the world, will have to be in my mind, inadequately rendered on paper.
So I came up with the idea of emulating Proenecke with my own Cabin in the Wilderness Project, PWC, which will take inspiration from Proenecke and source materials from photos of actual wilderness cabins, and also these drawings of houses which I drew under the direction of my offspring
