Micah Liesenfeld

One cold day in the middle of January, I sat down for lunch in a cafeteria with six coloured pencils, a pocket sketchbook, and a slice of pizza. Little did I know that a small boxed-in drawing of a guy looking up at a fish in the sky would be the beginning of "Trudger," a daily drawing project about a figure in a space going somewhere. Sometimes the figure is hard to see (especially if she or he is inside a house or a submarine). Sometimes the figure is not a human figure. Sometimes the figure has company. Through this process, I was able to give myself a daily allowance of playfulness so that no matter how much problem-solving I had to do in reality, there was also time for at least fifteen minutes with my imagination as well.

This project ran from January 18'th 2008 to January 17'th 2009: one full leap year's worth of 9 x 9.5 centimeter drawings in coloured pencils. A daily blog was kept for a month delayed from the beginning of the project every day as well and can be viewed here.

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