Page 26 of School Sketchbook #9
Venturing swiftly onto the by-now-almost-entirely perfunctory set of newborn studies evident in the both final School Sketchbook and the latest of the Extraneous Drawings, one oddity does start to bear interest. Shoehorned betwixt the mirrored assortment of babe portrayals, each implemented either on a Tuesday or Thursday - the two days of the week when young Miss Jelish attended Art at school, lie peculiar conflations of compulsively collected clippings of the movie star Tom Selleck (a replica of the elder Jelish if ever there was one) or similar such moustachioed 'entertainers'. These extend to the bindings of both the ninth School Sketchbook (SSB.9) and the Private Sketchbook. On second glance many of these countenances have bizarrely had their hirsute appendages tattooed on by our young artist. Again the revenant of her father still yields symbolic fruit. Oh, how she thanked me when I offered to chauffeur her to the local picture house to see her favourite star in the hit film Three Men and a Little Lady (I viewed it as a penultimate opportunity to return to Vanessa's good books). How she cooed every time the handsome moustache twitched athwart the screen. Oh, how she missed her father.
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