“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(My drawing was actually a recreation of artwork that had been lost at Artistic Card Co. As often happens the original art was later found after I had duplicated it. The drawing was for a gummed sticker to be applied to a line of packaged cards of various kinds—religious, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, etc., and was for a large old department store in Philadelphia, PA, that goes under the cavalier name of John’s Bargain Store. As the copy of my tracing shows these stickers are applied to the appropriate merchandise at various times of the year.

(“A connection with a machine”, could refer to the fact that I did some of the work on my tracing-paper drawing on a darkroom machine that is called a Lacey-Luci. This is a bulky contraption containing floodlights, a ground glass, and a magnifying-reducing lens for fast juggling of copy or artwork to proper size. A machine of this type is a standard in most art departments.

(“and some people you do not know, and some you do know.” Too general. I do not know the people who operate John’s Bargain Store, but neither do I know many other of Artistic’s clients. Obviously there were people around the art room whom I do know.

(“Somehow cluttered, or full, and empty toward the outsides.” On the original tracing-paper drawing my pencil smudging on the back shows through easily, and gives the drawing a cluttered or crowded look in the center. By contrast it looks bare toward the edge of the circle. This is an effect I noticed at work while making the tracing, but the illusion disappeared on the finished art.