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20 words written out of over 20,000 drawn (and counting)…😂
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March 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Audre Lorde in 76,344 words.
To draw her portrait, I wrote her line, “Your silence will not protect you,” quite a few times.

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A graphite portrait drawing of Audre Lorde made with thousands of written words. Lorde appears in three quarter view—her eyes looking forward and slightly downward, her hand resting prominently on her chin. (The line is from Lorde’s essay, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” The reference photo was taken by K. Kendall on Flickr under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.)
June 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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All words…51,102 of them.
(Drew this word portrait of W.B. Yeats by writing his poem “The Second Coming” 306 times.) 😅

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On a wooden desk sits a pencil drawing, a portrait of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats as an old man. His hair is grey and white, his eyes cast down. In the lower right corner of the frame, a hand holds a counter that reads “306.” That is the number of times the artist wrote Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming,” drawing him. (In this style of portrait, the subject’s own words—down to each handwritten letter—become the intricate marks that form their likeness.)
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM