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Normal History Vol. 618: The Art Of David Lester
Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 37-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. It fell to her to tend the garden, carefully latching bean tendrils to the brittle netting that stayed out all year, weathered […]
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Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 37-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
It fell to her to tend the garden, carefully latching bean tendrils to the brittle netting that stayed out all year, weathered to grey. The beans were blind—reaching out into the vastness of her tiny universe—in the opposite direction, until Odele unfurled the coil of filigree and let it touch the net. The beans hung like slender green trout, green eggs plump in their green bellies.
“Maisy’s Death” from Empathy For The Evil (M’lady’s, 2014) (download):
