Existential Feeling Peter Passuntino 1960s Ink, Pen and Graphite Drawing large ledger and physicist

and physicist

producing such a rich and wonderfully satisfying sound (just blow into the top

and there is more pink reinforcing seams here and there

who believes it is machinist's ruler—they would often make their own measuring tools (like ladies legs calipers

pins and all

Existential Feeling Peter Passuntino 1960s Ink, Pen and Graphite Drawing large ledger and physicistA couple more works on paper today by Peter Passuntino (b. Chicago, 1936), dating to the 1960s this narrative, sort of stream of consciousness drawing, along with a painting on paper of a face or mask. I find his work consistently compelling, and affecting this drawing seeming to portray the central figure, likely a portrait of the artist himself, in a certain state of turmoil, with one figure kneeling in front of him, another seeming to gesture to