There’s a new book out that collects some of Daniel Johnston’s voluminous doodling, and it sounds great. The New York Times published this nice writeup (with photos by UT Austin photography professor Eli Durst) of this new collection, I’m Afraid of What I Might Draw, with an interview of Daniel’s brother/guardian Dick Johnston:
In conversation, both Foster and Dick eventually discuss the same drawing, which now lives inside the safe at Electric Lady. Standing in a field of stumps as a half-dozen bats swoop in overhead, Johnston points toward a single sprout and grins. “There is still hope!” he says.
“Isn’t life a disaster and a train wreck? And here I am, and I climb out of it,” Dick said. “You don’t always know what your inner self is, but it reveals itself in your choices. Dan would hang onto that hope.”