Probably the oldest drawing ever recorded as drawn by me. I believe it was scanned with one of those old hand scanners, thus the grain and faded quality of the image. My mom put the little note on the side with the credit and the date. 1989. I was born in 1981.

As My mother puts it:

Maury sketched this profile in pencil on a piece of lined paper when he was 7 or 8 years old. I told him it reminded me of a Picasso. In later years, when it was mentioned, he said he did if of his brother Alex’s face/profile, who was sitting nearby. It’s instructive, if not illuminating, when reconstruction/reinventing one’s personal childhood history (as we all do), to have one’s own point of view but also that of one’s parents.

I was a little bit off, comparing the “Seed Divorced” to this image. For whatever reason I had always seen the old picture in my head as looking something like that one, but it’s less similar than I remembered. Regardless, I was glad that my mom drew my attention to it, it was good to make that comparison, and be reminded of what it really looked like. Thanks mom.

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