Silent Woman

silent woman, originally uploaded by susisco.

So I've been playing around with watercolors and I'm starting to dig them. I like that they are fast and I still can create vibrant colors. This lady is an image in my head that keeps coming up. I did a very small sketch of her a while back and decided to draw her up in color. ( I need to practice more) I don't want to write my reasons for drawing her she just is. Make up your own .

A WHITE MAN

whiteMan, originally uploaded by susisco.

The graphic today was inspired by a white man in the elevator. Tonight as my friend and I left work and got into the parking garage elevator a white man catches the elevator with us. He looked to be around six feet tall older(I’m 4’11” and my friend is around 5’ 4”) profession man. So this tall slender man stood right smack in front of my friend. It was only the 3 of us in the elevator with plenty of room. We gave each other a look and thought how odd but say nothing and continued with our conversation (in Spanish). Seeing that he gave no room I moved to the side so my friend would not be blocked by this tall man. As I moved over so did he, but not to get out of the way, he continued to stand right in front of my friend and the door. He never turned to us to say excuse me nor made any attempt to be courteous. He just faced the elevator the whole time with his back to us. My friend and I gave each other another look and thought well this man is rude and kept going on with our conversation. I also figured that maybe he was just standing right in front of the door because he was getting off a floor below us. But then as he walked out he said with his back to us in a muffled voice GO HOME and kept walking.

I am Hispanic and come from immigrant parents (whom I am damn proud off) and no one in America can say GO HOME. We are all immigrants. Each day I get angrier and feel the ignorance of people like that white man. From the prices being raised in order to get naturalized to borders and reformed immigration laws, it is all bullshit. If they really wanted to keep a growing economy then they should give work visas, not some lame ass point system. I am so irritated and yet I guess I am ignorant too because I was totally in shock that he (the MAN) would say that. He is a pathetic man that couldn’t tell two Hispanic women to our faces to GO HOME. I wonder if I will see him tomorrow, the jack ass!