The original images represented digitally here, were made almost exactly four years apart, and contrast the two dominant modes of church singer activity - singing and waiting. Each original was drawn on paper at hand: (1) Makea singing angelically, drawn on the inside back cover of the Faure Requiem score, a work we performed on the Sunday noted in the drawing, 5 May 1996, and (2) Makea waiting thoughtfully, drawn on a pink envelope included in each service bulletin that Sunday, 21 May 2000 . I have drawn Makea many times and all depict her in one of these two dominant modes. She has some startlingly high notes - notes one could hardly anticipate if one only heard her singing a typical soprano anthem line, and certainly not if one only studied drawings depicting her in the waiting mode. But, once having heard her sing such notes solo or floating above the regular soprano line, I "hear" her sing them even when looking at a drawing of her singing. I added the angellic details because we were singing the Paradisium movement in the Faure as I drew and it seemed overwhelmingly appropriate.

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