Joan Baez is known for her illustrious music career, but over the last few years, she’s made her mark as a visual artist, including her new book of upside-down works, “Am I Pretty When …
A little explanation of upside-down drawing: I first saw Baez do it years ago when she was still performing. One day, I happened to be there when she pulled out piece of paper and a pen and began drawing a clever, cartoonish image upside-down. She’s right-handed, but in this instance she was drawing with her left hand, making the whole thing even more strange and mysterious to me. For this book, she drew with both her left and right hands, but always upside-down.
“It’s the chaos of being a certain age and going to a new place, and to me it was terrifying,” she said. “The ‘Middle School’ drawing reflects that shattered, lost, confused, wild, unhappy scene, which is also kind of beautiful to look at.” Her youthful love affair with Bob Dylan came up at one point. It turns out that painting his portrait helped heal the pain and hurt she had long held inside over their public breakup.
“Bob had absolutely impossible phrasing which, he would change every night just to screw you up,” she said and laughed. “It was a challenge but he was brilliant.”
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