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The pose of the man in this drawing is one of someone who is lost in the understanding of his or her existence. It is obviously a pose of sadness; however, what is not so obvious is where the sadness is coming from, and that is through a state of confusion and longing for answers. It is through these same eyes that I read Ralph Ellison’s __Invisible Man__. When imagining the drawing bigger in order to show more of the surrounding scene, I see the narrator’s description in the Invisible Man about living rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten about.

"Now, aware of my invisibility, I live rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century, which I discovered when I was trying to escape in the night from Ras the Destroyer," (Ellison, 1947, pp. 5-6).

Can I get back to the beginning? Deja Vu Carry on Wayward Son!