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These drawings were done in Autodesk(Alias) Sketchbook 2001on my tablet pc (Fujitsu Lifebook) from life while watching Andrew Dinnwiddie's performance of a sermon of Jimmy Swaggart's from a 1971 record. He used the kinds of gestures and the confidence and sense of entitlement that I remember from seeing Jimmy Swaggart on TV when I was a kid.
It reminded me of the tent revival I went to in Missouri as a teenager. It is hard to imagine the festival goers attending a real tent sermon, (or revival for that matter), as they are scarily charged and not for secular entertainment, tfs.

Another drawing of Andrew Dinnwiddie's 're-enactment' of a sermon record (vinyl) of Jimmy Swaggart. Extremely good performance, and reminded me of Hal Holbrook's 1970's Mark Twain tour (which I only ever saw on video), though the concept and characters are very different. There is a certain appeal to Swaggart, as channeled through Dinwiddie. I sometimes forgot this was not who he really was...

Another drawing (probably the best) of Andrew Dinnwiddie's performance of Jimmy Swaggart at the 2011 Time Based Art... Tues, Sept 13th.