I received this cunning little sketch last week, and it has been sitting on my bedside table while I decide its fate. To scrapbook, or not to scrapbook? To consign to the bottom of the dustbin, or to frame and display in the front hallway? To deconstruct as artifact of postmodern motherhood, or to roll eyes at and discard?
A fistful of Smarties to anyone who can tell me what it is, or at least make some outrageously funny suggestion so that I can appropriate the narrative of this sketch and reframe it into something that won’t keep me awake at night. Which, yes, is a hint.
(It’s two sketches, actually. The scribble below the fold is a separate image, scrawled with a flourish to underscore a point about the main image, above the fold.)
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It’s OBVIOUSLY a minimalist profile of a very sad donkey (head only). With a gorgeous signature flair. Duh.
It’s half a bunny rabbit. The other half is obscured in view.
Now that is clearly a sketch of Rudolph stepping out of the fog on Christmas Eve. The other reindeer and the sleigh are still lost from view. For now.
Before you said it was two sketches, I saw the figure of a woman, the bottom scribble clearly her bush. heh
It’s the side view of a charm bracelet!
I have a similar sketch in a scrapbook with this caption:
“My son is going to be a genius. I have no idea what this sketch is supposed to be, which means he is already smarter than his mother.”
It’s a big favorite around here.
That is so an episiotomy.
Oh dear, I’m afraid my OB drew me a similar sketch. So very hurty!
I believe the technical name is “modern art.”
I’m pretty sure MOMA would frame it and hang it proudly.
It’s clearly a lament on the current state of your nether regions and your posterior.
It’s a post-modern reflection of the horrors of child birth and the sacrifices we women make for our family, our children.
That or it’s portrait of what your husband looks like first thing in the morning.
WAIT! Is that… Frankenvulva?
upside down “cake”
A recreation of one of Angelina Jolie’s tattoos?
Kittenpie, love, friend – I so WISH that were an episiotomy
Upside down spider with a quarter falling out of his pocket? Do spider’s even have pockets? I was never good an interpreting art.
It’s obviously a parachuter, coming down to land on a bouey. Boey. Bouy. Whatever. the orange floaty things in the ocean. You’ve got an airplane jumper on your hands.
I was thinking vulva, but only because the word makes me laugh.
Hi. I’m 14.
haha i’m glad i’m not the only one who thought it looked like a woman’s nether regions.
Since I’ve been beaten to gate going …THERE…I will say it is a mouth and tongue spitting out a pea. A commentary on your cooking perhaps? That’s what happens everytime I cook, at least…
I don’t even know how to be creative after reading the comments, I’m lauging too hard.
G Rated – The spoon that the dish ran away with. The bottom is the cow jumping over the moon.
X Rated – Oh dear, the girl got a mirror and drew a self portrait. I’m not even that brave.
In our house, it’s called a china.
It’s either you have a headache or your hub’s pee pee poking you on the head?
It’s a hep cat with a soul patch.
Anyone can see that.
i vote sad, half-invisible minimalist bunny.
Text and IM language of the future?
Woman with adam’s apple, runaway nipple and appendectomy scar.
Pre “surgery”
I am an artist AND a med student!!
Well, clearly, the top picture is a depiction of Sperm, Egg, and Baby.
I have no idea why M is being scratched out of the bottom picture.
Keep clutter down by filing the digital picutre of this masterpeiece with the date. Or heck, just archive your blog.
I am laughing too hard to come up with something coherent.
My guess? A boob hanging down from the sky.
No idea about the landing pad at the bottom.
I have NO IDEA what that is, but something tells me that if I find out I will FINALLY understand where babies come from!
Oh wait. … I just realized it looks suspiciously like the one-antlered deer in Open Season played by ashton kutcher.
Looks JUST like him, too.
This is a sad one-eyed man with a papaya on his head.
The artist’s note reads, “Behold the one-eyed man with the papaya on his head. He is sad. He wanted to eat that papaya.”
Okay, I think I have it…
The top one has to be of an old lady trying to relive the 80′s bang style, which no one got to begin with, so that’s why she’s a bit confused/sad.
The other one is a bit tougher…
It’s either a downhill skiier heading down the slopes or Prince’s new indentity for 2009.
WTF with y’all seeing REINDEER? and BUNNIES? Am laughing my ass off BUT SERIOUSLY. The Jungian therapy on this one is gonna be BIZARRE.
That’s The Wind In Your Vagina.
*falls to floor, gasping for breath, omf THE LAUGHING*
It looks like someone who needs their bangs trimmed, has a prominent nose with a mole beside it and they are sad because of one, two or all of those things. That bit on the bottom is them trying to remember the name of their hairstylist – they are fairly certain it doesn’t begin with an M.
That’s what I came up with after I got my mind out the gutter
I have no clue, but am enjoying the comments!!
Why is it that doctor’s can’t write clearly, but they can draw something like that just fine. Ouch.
Yeah, that’s your goodies.
And yeah, sorry about that.
It’s a sad little one-eyed girl wearing Sarah Jessica Parker’s hat from the Sex and the City movie premier. The doodle below is her dress.
Umm. Yes, that is the frankenvulva.
Yeah, I can’t compete with the comment from Black Hockey Jesus.
It looks to me like your lady parts, with extra emphasis of the area that didn’t survive the trauma of birth well.
I think it’s a little one-eyed man (not *that* one) who is crying because his tongue and his magnifying glass are plastered to his forehead.
Duh.
There’s gonna have to be a special prize for ‘SJP’s hat’, I think.
I did not read the comments yet so maybe someone said this…
But I think it is your breast and nipple and it is dripping milk…that is when I did not know it is two pictures….
Am not sure is it because of all the post about your breast being in pain and all…or really I am in that state!
I am afraid that I would not be saving the drawing as it is a little too Georgio O’Keefe-ish for me. I DONT LIKE HER ‘FLOWER’ ART. And I am no prude, it just really gets me for some reason…
Oh wow. If that’s Frankenvulva then I am so sorry. And if that bottom sketch is how you tore and were stitched up, then I am even sorrier still. Ouch.
I think it’s upside down. If you turn it around it’s clearly a vagina, a belly button, and the underneath of one boob.
And the doodle is a wavy line indicating anger. Or that it’s hot.
I too see a half invisible sad bunny.
“self portrait in repose, balanced on a whirlwind”
or something
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