Global housekeepers

It all began with a small, clipped image from a 1940\u27 s Good Housekeeping magazine. There she was: a two inch tall housewife, prim in both her apron and hair style. Her arms were extended: one for balance and one with a cloth for cleaning. I took this cleaning woman image to Kinko \u27 s , the 24 -hour copy center where I spend too much time. There, I made successive photocopies and enlargements until I had a stack of grainy, obviously mechanically reproduced drawings . Back in the studio, with a 4B charcoal pencil and paper, I vigorously drew backgrounds for the cleaning woman in which to do her cleanliness thing. Examples of some of the drawings are: an oil spill, rain forest foliage backed by a cityscape, and a sea turtle swimming in space near the planet Earth. In each of these drawings, I collaged a very grainy photocopy of cleaning woman