December 15, 2021

"I don’t know, and I’m not going to try to read her mind. Maybe she was just bored coming out of her jail cell. I know her sister sometimes also sketches in court. Maybe the Maxwell family just likes to sketch in their free time."

Said Jane Rosenberg, the courtroom artist who found herself on the receiving end of drawing by Ghislaine Maxwell, quoted in "'My life is weird': the court artist who drew Ghislaine Maxwell drawing her back" (The Guardian). 
She and another artist, Liz Williams, were sketching Maxwell one day during a pre-trial motion when they noticed that Maxwell, armed with a pen or pencil, was returning the favor. 

It made me think of the phrase, "When you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you." 

There's no gazing like the gazing required for drawing. 

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you." 

When you draw the monster, the monster draws you.

The artist puts a light spin on it — maybe it was just boredom or she likes to draw. I don't think so. I think Maxwell is speaking silently, saying: You're looking at me? I'm looking at you. You see evil in me? I see it in you.

32 comments:

gilbar said...

Ghislaine did NOT commit suicide.... Yet

Dave Begley said...

Why are they all wearing masks? When does this end?

Not required to wear masks in Nebraska state courts now.

Scot said...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/DrawingHands.jpg

Joe Smith said...

Weird...

Sigivald said...

"Yeah, you might think you see evil in me, but I just draw pictures of people in courtrooms.

You, well, you know what you're on trial for."

("Your boos mean nothing to me. I've seen what makes you cheer.")

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

I think women find it difficult to comprehend that any woman would help a man (or men) harm young girls. It's mind boggling.

Everything about this case is bizarre. That what's his name was killed in prison - Clintonian weirdness.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

OT:
Watch this video of man operating a sting operation in his own back yard to catch another man who wants to meet up with his 15 year old daughter.

What I find interesting is the insanity loop -- The police cannot do anything until a crime occurs, and the police- +media/culture frown upon vigilantism. Even though, taking care of your own family is really what we are forced into, in this age of "you are on your own" & "the police have been de-funded/ and they cannot help you anyway."

Václav Patrik Šulik said...

One of my favorite memes:

https://pics.onsizzle.com/ts-so-embanrassing-when-youre-staring-into-the-abyss-and-30450611.png

The text, since I can't embed:

It's so embarrassing when you're staring into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you, so you wave and it waves back, but it turns out the abyss was waving at someone behind you.

Sebastian said...

So, who else did she draw over the years? In what compromising positions? And where are those drawings?

rhhardin said...

One eye is always unseeing, when you draw self-portraits. See Derrida "Memoirs of the Blind" lavishly illustrated. Probably there's the same effect when you draw somebody drawing you.

n.n said...

Apparently, the "monster" is the tip of the proverbial iceberg (a la #MeToo #HerToo), which is hidden in a privacy sheath that protects a global minority of socially-forward elite with a pedophile orientation.

MikeR said...

"My joy and avocation has been to control and abuse people, for as long as I can remember. I can do it to you too."

Drago said...

You cannot begin to understand Ghislaine Maxwell if you don't know the details of her fathers life and death.

Which is nothing short of astonishing and often unbelievable, and not in a good way.

Achilles said...

Ghislane Maxwell did not kill herself.

Owen said...

Not a very flattering sketch by Maxwell of the courtroom artist. Maybe she’s not feeling relaxed and sociable: no rapport with her subject. I wonder why?

Leland said...

I'm going with bored. Perhaps she is used to drawing people like French whores after watching Jack Dawson on the big screen. Because if I was pissed at someone watching me and drawing me; then that's what I might do to mess with them. They have an obligation to draw what is happening in the court room. You can draw them as your imagination sees fit. If she is really a monster with spite; then she'd start writing in big letters the names of the Johns whom she provided escorts.

Ice Nine said...

Ghislaine may in fact be the monster she is accused of being - though that is yet to be proved - but however that turns out, I kind of like the moxie she exhibited in this sketching interlude.

Butkus51 said...

I think she should pay. Just like Martha Stewart. Jamie Dimon laughs.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Word has it the black book the judge has allowed in the trial has the name of straight shooter Alec Baldwin. 😬

rrsafety said...

She is the same courtroom sketch artist who famously butchered Tom Brady's portrait when he was in court for Deflategate. She was roundly criticized and ultimately forced to produce another sketch of him to prove she wasn't a hack. Her first sketch at the link - https://piximus.net/media/37724/the-internet-is-having-way-too-much-fun-with-this-sketch-of-tom-brady-1.jpg

mikee said...

Well, pimping ain't easy, and Ms. Maxwell needs to find some way to relieve her stress. Drawing seems more productive an activity than grooming young teens as sex SLAVES.

R C Belaire said...

There used to be a woman in Madison who made rat sketches. I miss those.

Quaestor said...

I know nothing about drawing monsters or monsters drawing me. But I have learned that when you eat pineapple the pineapple eats you back.

Quaestor said...

The fate of Ghislaine Maxwell is irrelevant compared the the Prosecution's eagerness to hang her and then close up shop.

Andrew said...

That reminds me of the Agatha Christie novel, Five Little Pigs, which also was a great Poirot TV episode.

(Spoiler Alert)

The murder victim was an artist, who died while painting a portrait. The murderer turned out to be the woman he was painting. She watched him die from poison as he painted her.

The Vault Dweller said...

Seems like a social power-play move to me. She is trying to intimidate the artist. By the artist I mean the one drawing Ghislaine Maxwell.

Mikey NTH said...

Or maybe it is "I wonder if any defendant sketched the courtroom artist?"

Sometimes the answer isn't obscure. Sometimes it can be obvious.

cubanbob said...

Maxwell knows this is a show trial and that she will be in the federal gulag for the rest of her life. She is the fall guy for Epstein who conveniently hanged himself under very unusual circumstances and none of the Johns are being prosecuted. I rather doubt the DoJ will ever explain why she wasn't offered leniency in exchange for her testimony against the Johns.

chuck said...

The masks are cruel and unusual.

Tofu King said...

Why do we still have courtroom artists? Snap her with your iPhone and be done with it.

Drago said...

Quaestor: "The fate of Ghislaine Maxwell is irrelevant compared the the Prosecution's eagerness to hang her and then close up shop."

Comey's daughter, yes, Comey's, is going to make sure no democraticals are harmed in the permanent disappearance of Ghislaine Maxwell.

Narr said...

Nobody has yet weighed in to say, "Nietzsche was a doodoo-head."

Progress.