Safety Pins & Losenages

An idea.
A pencil sketch.

It's always amazed me that art is basically just covering up mistakes until finally, at the end, the picture looks the way it did in your head, except the artist always finds little places that they know aren't exactly right.

But sometimes, if you try to cover up too many of the mistakes, if you erase too much, you end up worse off than you started.

We're all just sketches.
Un-inked and messy.

And bit by bit, we ink ourselves. We decide which areas look right, and make them permanent.

We make commitments.

And once we've inked the lines and erased the pencil,

we color.

We shade.

And sometimes, we get that wrong too, and then we either accept it for what it is, or start all over again.

We're all just sketches and artists,
trying to decide which lines stay
and which ones go.