How to Pick a Perfect Watermelon
Acrylic and paper on 300# Arches paper. 22 x 22”
In the original comic panel in the upper left, the woman unhappily washes dishes while thinking, “Huh, and here I was thinking sharing an apartment with Mary Lou and Phoebe would give me a chance to meet some boys and have some dates!”
But I wondered how often, after meeting her perfect man, she would still be unhappily washing dishes, ruminating on domestic chores and also the very boy she picked.
Between the roadmap in the background determining her direction, the overwhelming number of watermelons that seem the same on the outside, but are very different once cracked open, and the pressure to not only choose the best one, but then flawlessly present your life/family/home as “perfect”, I can imagine why she frowns.
I also consider that when problems run deep and are uncomfortable or unfaceable, something as simple as a bland watermelon can trigger a disastrously black mood!
Or maybe it’s just that she wants her watermelon, and her party, but not the dishes.