# 25 FOIBLES
| Author : | Audrey Robinson LEXINGTON, KY |
| Artist : | Kiptoo Tarus LEXINGTON, KY |
| Sponsor : | Don Robinson |
Audrey Robinson (1935-2016): Foibles
New York City native Audrey Robinson and her husband Don moved to Lexington in 1977 to manage his family’s thoroughbred business at Winter Quarter Farm. She was a poet and visual artist, having studied English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, creative writing at Columbia University, and stone sculpture at Kansas University. She developed a unique form of wordless comic strips that usually began with a stick figure sitting in a meditation pose in a cube. The figures in subsequent frames depicted exploits, adventures, mistakes, triumphs, and catastrophes representing the human experience. With the help of Dobree Adams and Johnathan Greene (owners of Gnomon Press in Frankfort, Ky.), 190 comic strips completed between 2002-2011 were collected and published in two volumes, entitled Foibles 1 and Foibles 2.
Kiptoo Tarus:
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I met Audrey and Don Robinson on their horse farm in Lexington on a job to take down one of Audrey’s old art studios. I was immediately in awe of her sculptures, and she introduced me to a book she was working on, Foibles. A word that I had never heard before suddenly became profound. In this book with no words, Audrey illustrates human weakness with Zen wisdom. Born in Kenya, artist Kiptoo Tarus now lives in Lexington, Ky.