Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!
While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.
For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.
And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.
Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:
Here is another old charcoal drawing study from a long past art show of mine featuring Jewish people who were 85 and older. I suppose I still had this last drawing because it was one of my favorites. I'm pretty sure this was a study for a four foot high by three foot wide painting of this man, but that one is probably lost to the world. This drawing is cleaned up in AI and I'll put its AI alteration level at 2 out of 10.
Following the image is the moving version of it.
To watch the moving image version of the drawing, click on it below, enlarge it (if you like), than click again to play it.
Live Photo of Kyoto: