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I have a book of norse myth that I’ve alway wanted to do something with and while reading the creation myth was struck by how beautiful it is.
Three gods find these roughly human shaped logs washed up on the shore give them consciousness and then just leave. “We’ll now that you are burdened with awareness we’ll just be off. I guess you two can just figure everything out yourself.
I described it to my partner as “Oh crap I exist.”
In some ways it’s very much a “I never asked to be born” story but for me it’s about that feeling of being thrust into a world nobody prepared you for and don’t really understand the rules.
This is the first completed personal work I’ve finished in around a year, it took shocking long for three pages. I have a few things I’ve picked up and put down, a sketchbook I briefly started and also put down.
Mental health is hard, making things it feel like society is collapsing is hard, making things when the world is on fire is hard and making things when half the world is pretending everything is fine when it isn’t is hard.
I know I don’t post much art these days but I haven’t disappeared. I’ve just had to reroute a lot of the energy I used to have for drawing into day to day keeping it together.
I’m just a log on the shore burden with the awareness of their existence trying to get by.
Went to the Eras tour movie today. Feeling drained from sitting in the dark for 3 hours with Taylor Swift and my thoughts but still thinking about it. Quick doodle while I eat cake and watch Bake Off.