Performers and Residents

4/30/24

4/30/24

I usually visit the spouse guy at Aegis Living three or four times a week. It’s a comfortable routine for both of us. I vary the time of day and day of week, mostly depending on when he’s the most energetic and engaged, partly depending on my own schedule, and sometimes depending on what’s going on there. During the good weather months, our agenda was easy because we both enjoy taking walks together. Now that the weather is less conducive to walking, we spend more time participating in the many indoor activities Aegis staff provides to residents.

7/4/24 Musician Bob Rothstein was so thrilled by my sketch that he asked
for a digital image to use in promotional materials.

Every week a “happy hour” offers non-alcoholic refreshments and usually some kind of live entertainment – musicians, dancers or even animals (though I keep missing the latter). Games involving trivia, words or Jeopardy-like quizzes keep the residents mentally challenged. Sometimes the games are more physical, like balloon volleyball, yard bowling and mini golf.

When I’m with Greg, I want to stay engaged with him so I avoid sketching, but often we’re both participating as observers. That gives me an opportunity to sketch.

After I made the post about Theodore, one of the activity coordinators, I remembered that I’d been saving up other small portraits of performers and residents over the past several months because I didn’t have any “stories” about them to write individual posts about. I decided to put a bunch of them together in this post.

8/1/24

10/24/24

11/9/24

11/19/24