When my son was two years old, we would sit at the dining room table and draw on large sheets of paper, sketchbooks, scrolls and just about any surface, all while listening to baseball games on the radio. The pandemic arrived around this time, so this would just be the beginning of countless hours at our dining room table drawing and thinking of things we could do together.
I dug up my baseball cards from the 1980s and 90s and together our family would draw wildly over dozens of cards. We shared these cards with extended family and friends and this practice eventually became a part of my regular studio practice with not only my son who is now 8, but anyone willing to make a mark.
Craig Willms is an artist and lead investigator at the office of surrealist investigations a social sculpture and collaborative art studio in Kamloops BC. The office is devoted to exchanging collaborative sculpture and drawings in public places drawing on baseball cards playing chess perfecting the art of the knuckleball and the negroni and abolishing all punctuation except…
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