Art Assessment Part 1

Many years ago, I drew this woman in the pink dress. Pregnant, indignant, smoking, dismissive. It was probably about 2010 when I actually drew this on paper. This is the copy I have now. The actual drawing may be lost to me. This is a poorly taken photograph of the drawing.

In 2010 I was living in downtown Los Angeles, California. This was after the events that took place in Ireland. You can find out more about that experience from my book, "Addiction to Being Alive" here at this link: Amazon.com: Sara Cross: books, biography, latest update

I don't know why I drew it except for that I was prone to drawing things that seemed a bit more on the morbid side. Things that made me kinda' side. I also tended to draw some funny, but weird stuff. Here are some examples of my style at time. (Feel free to laugh about how terrible it all is!)

So, these are some examples of the work I did in my youth. Keep in mind this is just some things and from about the ages between 10 and 20. I don't have a lot of my past work even in my young adult phase as I tended to throw stuff out the way many unsatisfied artists tend to do. A lot of this is under the age of about 15 but there is a range here.

Years after I drew the original drawing of the Pink Lady and after I was over the hill from my time in Ireland (during my first time living there) and after I started to reflecting on more of the past while learning more about the metaphysical world at large … I redrew the Pink Lady on my drawing tablet (this is a good gauge to judge how long it has been by the technology that has now been created). I redrew this sometime in 2021.

Then I thought … now what. Now that my interest has directed me back to this dissatisfied lady what should I do with her? I continued to sit on this drawing for about a year, I think. It was sometime before I went back to her. Eventually, she developed with a background that showed WHY she has such a bored and dismissive manner about her.

I started sharing this online in my social media at the time, mainly Facebook and Instagram. I was promptly shadow banned if you can believe it. And every time I share this little gem, I get an markable difference in viewership in the algorithm. I become almost invisible. This still happens today. This should also not surprise anyone.

Go to Part 2 of “Running the Program” to read on the rest of this article!