The American Gallery of Juror Art is proud to welcome Christine Buckton Tillman.
Christine Buckton Tillman is an artist in Baltimore, and a faculty member and Exhibitions Educator at the the Park School there. She works in sculpture, drawing, and projection.
The drawings in Christine's on-line portfolio are fanciful, fun, and mysterious: flowers in rich layered colors fit into the squares of graph paper, indigo watercolor universes of constellations, and loops and garlands that look like party decor. She says her work draws on "images and objects in which I see an inner dichotomy -- objects that are at the same time happy and sad, full of joy, and utterly hollow. These objects lose something in translation," she continues. "The phenomena of a rainbow becomes trite and cliché on the cover of a notebook."
Christine's jury-duty drawings are notebook doodles, but they have a lyrical quality that hints of her "real" work. She says the love note on the second drawing is really from her husband. She posted the drawings in the "Drawing: We Do It Every Day" pool on Flickr, which contains spontaneous daily sketches from over 750 pool members.
All rights in these drawings are reserved to Christine Buckton Tillman; thanks to her for cheerfully agreeing to let them be shown here.
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Jury-related notes from all over this week:
- At Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer, Jamie Spencer points to his former teacher Wayne Schiess's excellent legal writing blog, Legalwriting.net, and his several recent posts on the challenge of making jury instructions clearer.
- You can't talk to a jury unless you've made your way through discovery, and the new federal E-discovery cases and amendments are challenging all of us. At Civil Procedure Prof Blog, the "Thursday interview" is with Hon. Lee Rosenthal of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, who is introduced as "the architect of the electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," and graciously protests that she is not the only one.
- Jennifer Lopez showed up for jury duty in Beverly Hills, looking great. If you ever decide to keep yourself current on jury matters, be aware that when Jennifer Lopez has jury duty, it's going to seriously clog up your news feeds.
- Charles Dickens, wonderfully, quoted on voir dire at Blawgletter: "A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get hold of. Discontented or hungry jurymen, my dear sir, always find for the plaintiff."
