The Anonymous Painter

One nice day (07/2006), I was working on my own in a Starbucks coffee at the corner of National & Barrington in Los Angeles. I guess I was pretty focused since, out of the blue, a young woman stopped by my table, said, “thank you for being such a nice model!” gave me a piece of paper and left. By the time I looked around to see what was going on, she had already left the store; I don’t even remember her face. Apparently, (as I was told by someone who sat at a nearby table), she was sitting there for quite a while taking my picture, and I didn’t notice… too much work, I guess. Interestingly, on the back of the paper (left drawing below), there are a few different figures; I’m one of them (can you guess which?). Then she turned the page and focused solely on me…. (this is the right drawing below)