Wilma, the receptionist for Atwater’s, the large corporate restaurant where I worked 1987, was the first person I ever encountered with a telephone headset.  I was continually startled whenever she would break into an intense and highly focused phone conversation -seemingly from out of nowhere - while in the midst of interacting with me.  Reception grew out of a photo shoot of Wilma seemingly being dragged back into her visual environment.  I enlisted the help of Restaurant hostess Annie Borer (Wallace) whose job it was to invade Wilma’s space.  In hindsight I sometimes wish I had included Annie in the final drawing; but, at the time, having a single “figurine” seemed more important.

 

The lace in Wilma’s clothes became one of my primary challenges.  Another worry had been Wilma’s eyes.  This was my first drawing of a full face - without glasses or an obscuring pose.

 

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