Some glean meaning from doodles. Those circles, squares, and spirals we pen absent-mindedly when attending conferences, meetings, or when waiting at the end of a call center. These may be an expression of concern with a current situation or experience or a reflection of our personality, an emotional state or conflict.
Some doodles have a cultural meaning that has fallen out of use or belongs to a certain realm of knowledge; types of crosses for example, scientific symbols, astrological symbols and who hasn’t drawn a heart at least once in their lives.
What are we to make of the doodles of the once most powerful man in the world - U.S. president Ronald Reagan.
These doodles were made by then U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the Group of Seven summit in Ottawa in 1981. Then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher took the page of doodles Reagan left behind, and released them a few days ago along with a collection of her private papers dating from 1981.
Among the doodles, see attached image, there appears to be a self-caricature, a caricature of another man in profile sporting a trilby and smoking a pipe, three more heads of men in portrait style, an eye, and a chiseled torso.
The faces may be a motif from earlier days, idealized self-portraits, a dislike for those portrayed. Eyes may suggest a frustrated artistic talent, a feeling of being watched by a staring eye, or his privacy being invaded.
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