The Gurley Gallery

Hi! I'm Chad. Thank you for checking out #smilelines, an upside-down frowns art series I am creating in conjunction with my "49 thin lines" poetry project. On my 49th birthday, I drew forty-nine lines by fives symbolizing my time alive, and it revealed something surprising. I wanted to smile. Though each line contained its own devastations and celebrations, through it all, by God’s grace, I’m still here. I’m still keeping on keeping on, as my dad would say. I am still surviving. I'm drawing yet another line. And if for nothing else, that gives me hope, a new hope, a hope in need of being passed along. Here's my try with designs of simple lines that can convey moving moments if you look just right. I call them #smilelines.