I do drawings in series, as project ideas, working a theme from the sub-narrative or unpredictable edges. I define a drawing that works as one that cannot be used to protect oneself from one's own sense of wit.I think the social or political begins to live in a drawing through unexpected situations, allowing one to savor a small fragment of context. The acceptance of numbness from over stimulation by a contemporary issue is a facing of the page. It's a daily page made of rag and paralysis waiting for the stumbling of a wet brush. The act of trying to feel something that is at least alive in the hand. A drawing diary against the blunting flow of information too cleaned and trimmed to support the weight of its own absurdity.The current series is about Artillery. The world of iron, the love of the cannon, the big gun. The way in which it has become rather like shopping for a new way to blow something up, with all the extra's and air conditioning, and even a shell can have a little brain hunting its target in flight.Since 1970, Roger Palmer has produced poetry, paintings, installations, and a large body of drawings. His installations of drawings and artifacts have been shown in such venues as Diverseworks in Houston (solo and group shows), NEXUS in Atlanta, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL; Tampa Museum of Art and Ringling Museum of Art, FL, which purchased an installation for their permanent collection. He has received a regional NEA Grant, two Florida Individual Artists grants, as well as grants to do installations at Miami Waves Film Festival, Nexus, and The Artists' Alliance in Tampa, FL. He participated in a NEA funded collaborative performance work, "Smarter than Dogs", and a collaborative project with PWA’s which traveled to Miami and Orlando. He has self-published 3 books, one of which ("The Inheritance and Other Stories") is archived at Franklin Furnace, NYC and has had poetry and/or images published in Sonoma Review (U. of Arizona), the Journal of the NAEA, and Tabloid Magazine. With a strong affinity for Japanese and Chinese Haiga and Zenga painting as well as East Asian poetry, he spent six weeks in Japan in 1985, then visited China in 1990 where he was a guest artist at Nanjing Normal University. A University of South Florida MFA, Roger has taught computer art, word and image seminars, drawing, design, and art appreciation at such places as University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Community College and Montana State University. He works reclusively, often in a cabin he hand built in Ozello, FL.