1. The Young Disaster Series - Unpredictable, Temperamental and Tempestuous Lindol

Young Tempestuous Lindol. Archival micro pigment ink on 12"x9" Bristol Board.

This is Lindol, prepubescent (above), but starting to show her tempestuous, temperamental, nature. She is unpredictable and prone to temper tantrums. She has a twin sister who is equally volatile and explosive. She does not understand why the other children avoid her and instead, she seems to attract the underground creatures. They come out when she runs or stomps her right foot. That right foot of hers, hurts so much. Her Mother tells her it is growing pains. Growing pains indeed for you shall see what happens to her right foot when she grows up! She relieves the pain by stomping her foot, alas, with disastrous consequences.

In the meantime here she is perched on her favorite tree by the stream. She loves to go fishing but is disappointed with the extreme lack of challenge, for the fish come to her like willing pawns to whatever she has planned in that disastrous mind of hers. Someday soon, she will have both arms sleeved with tattoos, much to her Mother's dismay.

Lindol follows no schedule and is most unpredictable. Those who know her may detect her rumblings and expect dire consequences but most often, she just breaks out into a most horrid and catastrophic scream in the night.

I started illustrating my first Disaster Series in April 2010 after Andrew Finnie gave me a Bald Faced-Liar (Creative) Award. Naturally I had to live up to the challenge. Thus I created Las Hijas de Señora Phenomena Naturale, . My daughter told me to draw them next, as babies.

Mature Disasters: