Like East Berlin

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Random drawing I did on a Sunday afternoon after checking out the art gallery at [link] while listening to " What Do You Hear in These Sounds?" by Dar Williams. Nothing much. Didn't even take me an hour to do, though it did take me an hour to find decent pictures of the Berlin Wall to serve as models for the background. (And yes, there are supposed to be people behind the wall in this image, clamoring to get across, but they all turned out as blips. Oh well. )

As for the girl in the foreground. She's supposed to be symbolic. That's all I'm saying.

Inspiration: A few of Kitty's drawings (see aforementioned URL ) as well as " What Do You Hear in These Sounds?" by Dar Williams. Specifically the following lyrics:

And I wake up, and I ask myself what state I'm in
And I say, "Well, I'm lucky, 'cause I am like East Berlin
I had this wall, and what I knew of the free world
Was that I could see their fireworks
And I could hear their radio
And I thought that if we met, I would only start confessing
And they'd know that I was scared
They would know that I was guessing
But the wall came down and there they stood before me
With their stumbling and their mumbling
And their calling out just like me..."

Media: Mechanical pencils only.