Get a life

Talk about suffering for your art.

Mexican artist Filemon Trevino went through a lot to produce the world’s longest drawing. (A quarter-mile, it is!)

He neglected food, sleep and water over the 6,000 hours it took him to finish it. He grew a beard, and lost 35 pounds. He was even hospitalized seven times for dehydration, heart and kidney problems, all from hours and hours of scribbling in a stuffy room.

Went through 800 pencils, too. (Hope he was buying them in bulk.)

The drawing, by the way, is “a representation of the heart and circulatory system, with symbols including doves, geometric shapes and hundreds of yards of intertwined tubes.”

Gee, I can’t wait to see it.

But there’s drama in this drawing.

The artwork, which consumed his life for over a year, could not compete for a world record. First, someone had to display it and pay the $600 fee for the Guinness Book of World Records.

Luckily for Filemon, his masterpiece was displayed at Regiomontana University. Later, the Guinness guys declared it to be a world record.

Filemon must be relieved.

Otherwise, he might suspect that THE WHOLE THING WAS A GIGANTIC WASTE OF TIME.