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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.

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About the Author:

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PEP Traveler has no home, and goes where he pleases, like the swallows of San Juan Cap.

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