When I (Kan) came down to Austin for one of my longer stays here, beginning in the Summer of '02, I actually had the opportunity to finally spend some time with the creature Chadwick. On one of those nights, he asked me only to outline a drawing for him. What I came up with was the black and white version of this picture here portrayed. While I had been drawing, I gave Chadwick my MP3 player, introducing him to the song “Teardrop” by Massive Attack. When the drawing changed hands to him, he kept the MP3 player, and had the song on repeat the entire night as he began shading, coloring and patterning the portrait of the half-dragon, half-phoenix.
I woke up to a picture somewhat like this one, though his spiraling lines and gradient colors are not something I have replicated here. You see, that particular portrait, as the story goes, was picked up by the wind and swept outside of Chadwick’s car to its utter destruction, and so that picture now exists in his and my memory alone. Though this version I have made will ever remind me of it, or the presence of Chadwick or the playing of the song “Teardrop.” That song has enough awesome attachments to it, that playing it is like reading some of your own favorite journal entries all together at once.
...and now the News!
Some news on Chadwick. Our brother made squad leader in Boot Camp, then made Tank Commander. He finished Boot, and immediately opted for Ranger Training. Picture a smiling poster child for ADHD straddling a tank turret, swinging a cowboy hat in one hand and yelling for everyone to open fire. That is the image that entered my head when hearing this, although Chadwick has exceeded every expectation… sine one thing… you can always expect him to be surprising. He’s certainly succeeded. What a story. What a life!
I woke up to a picture somewhat like this one, though his spiraling lines and gradient colors are not something I have replicated here. You see, that particular portrait, as the story goes, was picked up by the wind and swept outside of Chadwick’s car to its utter destruction, and so that picture now exists in his and my memory alone. Though this version I have made will ever remind me of it, or the presence of Chadwick or the playing of the song “Teardrop.” That song has enough awesome attachments to it, that playing it is like reading some of your own favorite journal entries all together at once.
~φ~
...and now the News!
Some news on Chadwick. Our brother made squad leader in Boot Camp, then made Tank Commander. He finished Boot, and immediately opted for Ranger Training. Picture a smiling poster child for ADHD straddling a tank turret, swinging a cowboy hat in one hand and yelling for everyone to open fire. That is the image that entered my head when hearing this, although Chadwick has exceeded every expectation… sine one thing… you can always expect him to be surprising. He’s certainly succeeded. What a story. What a life!
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