I find doodling to be an interesting avenue of self-expression. I tend to doodle a lot when I'm bored but have zero artistic ability. So my drawings tend to be a lot of loops, a sort of ever-expanding flame thing and oddly enough pumpkins. The first two I generally get as it's a simple consistent movement but I can't really tell you where the pumpkins came from. Continuing on with my point though, I have plenty of friends with much better artistic abilities that have a far more interesting collection of things they draw when boredom strikes. A friend who eventually became an engineer would draw rabbits and robots who would help with homework during the slow periods of her classes. I know someone else who has always been obsessed with animals but drawn more towards the mythical/fantasy variety. His notebooks were always covered in creatures of his own design. And then there are the people who, like me, have little artistic ability and end up very precisely filling in the spaces of the letters on the page. No matter where you fall of the scale of being able draw though, doodling is something rather inherent to human nature.
While the sticker clearly took more effort than your normal doodle would, it really reminds me of something you would find on the edges of someone's page. It's simple line design, the big eyes and teeth of the little creature, and the puking altogether seem a fairly appropriate avenue for any high schoolers' boredom. The drawing also heavily reminds me of a ghost from Pac-Man or if you're more Pokemon inclined a diglett. Possibly this is just because of the dome shape of the creature but then again most people's doodles and drawings show the cultural elements that influence them. For a minute I had thought that this sticker was one of Chu's many tags but looking over the many images that are up on the internet, I think it was just the eyes that made me lean that direction. I'm sure I could come up with some meaningful reading out of this image, something about people rejecting the cultural norms that society forces upon us, but I can't get passed this idea of doodling. That boredom is a big driver of what we do in the day and that someone felt that their boredom was worth sharing with the world. It's certainly something we can all relate to and this image is rather fun to randomly find in the end.
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Maggie Ondrey
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