Basic Information
Title: How Things Are
Artist(s):
Leslie Roberts
Date Created: 2017
Framed Dimensions: 18.5 x 14.5 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 16 x 12 in.
Medium: gouache, graphite, ink, and colored pencil on gessoed panel
Inventory ID: Roberts-2017-01
Description
titled above the image upper left
signed, titled, and dated on the back of the panel
Handwritten text: text messages in response to “how are things?”
Transcript:
Could be worse
It’s getting unnerving
Anxious
So far so good
Home and glad of it
Laying low
Just peeling out of hazmat gear
Having little luck getting clear info
Can’t get used to this level of turnover
Having a different quandary
Feels like the flu
Too many emotions
Satire is a challenge now
Am being sedated
Went all the way to NJ
titled above the image upper left signed, titled, and dated on the back of the panel handwritten text and list of US passport regulations: Excerpt: your photographs must be / two by two inches in size / identical / taken within the last six months / showing current appearance / color or black-and-white/ full […]
signed, titled, dated, size, and medium written on the back of the panel handwritten text: Sentences preceded by “why,” from news reports, email, and other sources. Transcript: Is this happening Did I get this Aren’t people angrier Do you want this job Can’t we sleep Am I writing you Do filmmakers love van Gogh Would […]
title, date, size, medium, and artist’s notes written on the back of the panel handwritten text list of oppositions: True/false, anxious/serene, bizarre/ordinary, positive/uncertain, digital/analog, uptown/downtown, compliant/resistant, rough/gentle, systematic/arbitrary, orderly/disheveled, heavy/light, friend/foe, binary/non-binary . . .
titled above the image upper left signed, and dated on the back of the panel Handwritten text: Signs and ads read during a subway trip Excerpt: Lorimer St, Metropolitan Grand, plan ahead, I was scared silly, local, litter stops here, help point, service exit, apply now, emergency instructions, caution, this area has been baited […]
