Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
So much vulnerability as we wander through life asserting versions of our personhoods, seeking and avoiding various attractions on the amusement-park fairgrounds that are our lives. I’m sure this frilly one doesn’t need to ask what the ne’er-do-well casting judgment thinks about them. The frilly already knows. Walk on, frilly. Walk on with your snout held high.
“Attraction Is Ephemeral” from The Observer (Kill Rock Stars, 2006) (download):
