Week #9 my civic duty



juror napping

3 forms of fire prevention

   This week sent my sketching to the court-house for jury duty. Although my sketches were candid (or so I tried) they were quick and somewhat drawn from memory. Strangely when you are removed from your comfort zone and placed in a room with a few hundred possible jurors the patience and tolerance measures range greatly. I experienced everything from being intimidated (and perhaps almost thrown out the 1st day) by security when I was questioned directly/abruptly about my "watching them" to people abruptly leaving the room, to being complimented for my drawing skills (on a 10 min. sketch?) to a few people who I believe knew I was drawing to actually come sit sideways in a chair right in front of me as if to pose. The way I see it- I get paid (yeah right... not much) to be locked up in a room full of maybe 200 captive victims from which I can draw from... if they don't deck me. Hey, I gotta draw the people, the other drawing "Three forms of fire prevention" is about the most interesting thing (non human) down in the bowels of the courthouse building!