Vegetables From Outer Space

Once upon a time, I studied architecture. Part of the syllabus was a sketching course. But instead of drawing buildings and architectural details, as one would have expected, we’d sit in the stuffy seminar room and scribble all sorts of … vegetables and fruit! I suppose this was meant to have some valuable didactic effect on us. (Or our professor and his assistants just didn’t have a desire to go on sketching excursions and thus be publicly seen with us styleless mob.) – So I sketched caulifower, peperoni, apples, onions, and oranges. Lots of it.

I couldn’t refrain from commenting on the whole thing and, as matter of course, used a cartoon to express my protest. I painted it right onto the cover of my official sketch book. The surreal creature was clearly inspired by (or rather copied from) the artwork of the British band »Daisy Chainsaw«.

It says: »Hrmph – looks as if invasion by weird vegetables from outer space had finally started … – better call my lawyer … hrmph …«