Pencil on paper, drawn on the back of a discarded employee "thank you" letter from Walt Disney Studios management to my ex-girlfriend, thanking her for joining the Pocahontas production as a clean-up artist. It reads:

    Walt Disney Feature Animation

    Peter Schneider
    President

    August 18, 1994

    Dear Terry,

    Thanks for lending your skills and talent to Pocahontas.
    Your contribution is appreciated by all of us at Feature
    Animation.

    A warm welcome as you join the production.

    All the best,

I must have plucked it out of her waste basket, as I like to draw on anything; the drawings seem to come out better when they're on the back of discarded items. Probably because there are wrinkle patterns in the paper that inspire my mind, instead of that plain white emptiness of a fresh white sheet.