Drawing Pencil on Paper by Bob Meyer: Mommy's Shoe, Framed

Someone small has got hold of Mommy's shoe.

Mommy's Shoe is a framed pencil drawing on paper by Bob Meyer, from France, made around 2010. Pencil has long been the artist's most private medium, a quick way of catching a gesture before it goes. Tangled lines build a figure with its head bent, one arm hanging. A pointed shoe dangles from the hand. Darker scribbles collect at the chest, and the rest of the sheet stays bare inside a wide mat and an ornate silver-toned frame. It measures 20 inches wide by 21 high.

Some things take years to grow into.