Drawings From The Edge

Paul has been a hospice volunteer since (DATE), and has drawn people on their last moments, days, months and years. These drawings will never be sold, however when he looks at them as a collection it says something about how we value life or how we as individuals face the end of our time. To Paul it’s reverence for that person that I don’t know, and that person’s life, and whatever they’re trying or have tried to do with their life. And in a different way when Paul’s drawing a musician, that’s sort of what he’s doing, he’s drawing them and what they’re doing and their life and making it important.

“I’ve been in the room with rich people and poor people - there’s a trinket or two, a family thing or two, often these rooms are not their own room anymore they're in a public place that's meant for this purpose. All of the things you have around you, pick 2 or 3 things that you’ll take to the end”

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Bill Cullen, 2012, room 622. Bill Cullen was in one of those places where people have 24hr care. Most people there were bedridden and Bill was. he couldn't speak. he could hear me, and i was able to talk to him and read to him about things that were happening on the news and he would nod to me. Sometimes people would come in whilst I was there and help him eat. But he was pretty much bedridden for the whole time I was visiting with him. Warren Barr Pavillion. A lot of times I'd pick these ploaces to go visit people because I liked their location. There was one lady Metti I visited only as it was so close to where Christine lived so I'd go visit her and water her plants, go see Christine and walk in a beautiful park nearby. Then she passed away. She went to bed when her husband died and never got out of bed again. She had lots of money. She never talked to me, I had more fun watering her plants than I did talking to her. But only time she seemed to be able to hear when he yelled at her (where's the coffee) - let's have some Morgan David - she had a great response. She never did get up. One of the most beautiful streets in chicago but she never saw it.

Bill lived near an area where there was lectures etc that Paul wanted to listen to. Visiting people was a good deed but also then put me in a place where I could be outside of my daily routine and enjoy a new place. Bill represents a lot of people that I visited at Warren Barr (dolly was too).

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    These three are 1st lady I ever visited. 107 years old. On one side there was a hospital, on the other side there was a cemetary so it just depends on how you felt on that day. I visited her three times before she passed away. She had been in a concentration camp in ww2 and had numbers stencilled on her arm. All her relatives had passed - at 107 her kids would have been in 80s and 90s. She fcommunicated with me even though they said in hospice that she was activvely dying. I came in one day and her feet were uncovvered. I said your feet are uncovered do you want me to cover them - i covered them and she blew me a kiss and gave me an air hug. But she never talked the whole time I visisted her. There was the same perfume my wife liked and there were maybe one or two pictures in an otherwise sterile room. And that'\s all there was after a lifetimes worth of years. I felt her as a friend evern though we never spoke. I don't know how to describe what that is, and I'm sure that the people who work in these places ie feed people, wash people - also have this feeling. And I don't know if they go home at the end of the day and feel satisfied with what they've done but they should be becauswe they've done interesting things.

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