Pencil Sketch: My “Room” in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
October 16th, 2006
I had a twin sheet safety pinned across a string that I hung up. I was sharing a 1 bedroom apartment with two other people — one of them my recently ex’d-boyfriend. I used a closet door on some milk crates to make a drawing table for myself. This sketch is a few years old, but I feel like it captures the lack of space there and a certain feeling of loneliness despite living in a crowded apartment.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:56 am
ex?
October 17th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Yeah, we broke up basically right after we moved in together in New York. It was bound to happen, but the timing and circumstances (living together) were unfortunate.
October 23rd, 2006 at 12:51 am
Is your arm in a sling? Lonely. You, your bike, a beer. And-what is that above you? A fixture? a sense of being under constant observation?
bike shoes shall always be the ultimate urban cool.
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:25 am
Arm’s not in a sling, I’m just kinda holding myself like I’m sore or tired. And that’s one of those cheap rice paper lantern thingies hanging above.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
this is an old post but I feel this.
I was living on a living room floor for 3 months after a break up and it was really similar. Especially because she was partying it up and bringing her LA friends home and such. I had just moved to LA and didn’t know anyone, so the living room floor was all I had at first. SMOG wrote a song about this that is amazing. I think it is called ‘Your New Friend’ and it is on the Kicking A Couple Around EP. That song freaked me out when I heard it because it is basically the story of the summer I meved to LA in 2000.
January 30th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
@james - cool, I’ll check it out!
My ex had been using my bed when we split the bedroom. One day, when he was being a total jerk about paying the utilities — mostly a power game in front of our third roomate — I hit a boiling point, locked myself in the bedroom and pulled my mattress back over to my half of the room, and re-claimed restful nights of sleep for myself! Take that jerkface, haha!!