Quoted verbatim from the notebook… “Inspired by the kintsugi reference in an over-elaborate “Midsommar Murders” episode, was an idea to do something to show the breaking / fixing of my world. Initially a wild dream to do something actual (porcelain skull, oops, been done lots of times!) to doing something simple with white and gold […]
Funny that I don’t have as much to say about the pictures that make me happy. This one is about making changes in life, countering the old saying… the original idea had them standing in water but I chickened out at the thought of the upside down rippled reflections! Inspired by seeing this old picture, […]
Ironic that the most angsty pictures bring the most joy to draw. Or maybe just the law of averages, if most of them are angsty. It’s been a slow year for drawing, but mostly for good reasons. Like spending 6 months doing a brewing course. It’s been a tough year for life, settling into a […]
I often trot out the aphorism about putting on your own mask first, but lately I feel like no one else is putting on theirs afterwards. It was loosely meant to link back to the sequence of “aversion” and “reversion” but I was loving the pure geometry so much I didn’t draw myself in the […]
As a family we weren’t really that resilient. We all need extra time and space to ourselves to keep our equilibrium. If we do more than one thing in a day we feel frazzled. Travelling to Japan was the crucible for that. We really surprised ourselves with some crazy adventures of endurance. The epic train, […]