04.11.12
Sketches: PEP Traveler
CM Evans, for Marguerite Avenue, met Pep Traveler -- who said his name is spelled "P -- E --- P", at a cafe in Laguna Beach, making these tiny little doodles, that are not doodles at all, if you look carefully. Interview to follow.
04.11.12
Interview: PEP Traveler
CM Evans: I like your sketches. They look like doodles, but are they?
PEP Traveler: No, these are definitely not doodles. Doodles are random.
CM: Then what are these?
PEP: More like visual musical riffs. Little lines singing.
CM: Do you like Paul Klee?
PEP: My work is the extension of an imaginative world that precedes Paul Klee.
CM: How so?
PEP: My work is less refined, rougher, closer to the source.
CM: Have you been doing this long?
PEP: For many years, all the time.
CM: You mentioned something about doodles being random. How are these expressions of yours 'not random'?
PEP: Have you ever imagined a pile of milk-crates stacked up to the moon?
CM: No.
PEP: If you could theoretically stack a pile of milk crates up, organizationally, to the level of the moon, would there be a lot of randomness to that?
CM: I suppose not.
PEP: These drawings I do, collectively, will be like a stack of milk crates going to the moon.
CM: They will be?
PEP: Yes.
CM: That is very interesting.
PEP: Isn't it?
CM: What are your plans now?
PEP: I'm going to eat an old bagel with strawberry jam.
CM: And after the bagel?
PEP: Take a nap and draw in my sleep.
CM: Do you always draw in your sleep?
PEP: I usually do my best artwork there, and then I copy a lot of it to this reality, when I wake up.
PEP Traveler: No, these are definitely not doodles. Doodles are random.
CM: Then what are these?
PEP: More like visual musical riffs. Little lines singing.
CM: Do you like Paul Klee?
PEP: My work is the extension of an imaginative world that precedes Paul Klee.
CM: How so?
PEP: My work is less refined, rougher, closer to the source.
CM: Have you been doing this long?
PEP: For many years, all the time.
CM: You mentioned something about doodles being random. How are these expressions of yours 'not random'?
PEP: Have you ever imagined a pile of milk-crates stacked up to the moon?
CM: No.
PEP: If you could theoretically stack a pile of milk crates up, organizationally, to the level of the moon, would there be a lot of randomness to that?
CM: I suppose not.
PEP: These drawings I do, collectively, will be like a stack of milk crates going to the moon.
CM: They will be?
PEP: Yes.
CM: That is very interesting.
PEP: Isn't it?
CM: What are your plans now?
PEP: I'm going to eat an old bagel with strawberry jam.
CM: And after the bagel?
PEP: Take a nap and draw in my sleep.
CM: Do you always draw in your sleep?
PEP: I usually do my best artwork there, and then I copy a lot of it to this reality, when I wake up.
About the Author:
PEP Traveler has no home, and goes where he pleases, like the swallows of San Juan Cap.
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