While catching up on my inboxes and seeing this again with fresh eyes, I'm still just very enamoured with this one. I love the expression on her face most of all, it's a feeling that I am not quite sure of the correct word for; weary but hard, exhausted past the last step and yet beginning to break into a run. Something like that. The "runner's high" of the anxious and beaten, who have gone through more than they ever thought they could handle and have found a brief high in the internal chaos. I can't help but transpose my own self and my own demons onto this art when I see it, and it's a degree of empowering.
While catching up on my inboxes and seeing this again with fresh eyes, I'm still just very enamoured
Mala, I feel you should know that I'm reading this right after having tallied up my finances following a working vacation and having prioritized the experiences I was having over worrying about the money (so you can guess how good ((bad)) the numbers felt) - right in the midst of a pretty bad downswing in how I feel about my art and myself as an artist. I needed this, hun.
Thank you for bringing me back to this piece again. I'm glad this resonated with you as well as it did, and I appreciate you taking the time to share that with me. 💝
Mala, I feel you should know that I'm reading this right after having tallied up my finances followi
I'm so glad that my comment could arrive at such an opportune time! Taking a vacation of any sort as a self-employed person really is such a difficult task.
I hope you're able to come out of your downswing sooner than later. I go through my own battles with highs and lows about my work and my career path, and while I know I'll always come out of it again, it doesn't make it feel less hard when I'm in the middle of the worst of it. Hang in there!
I'm so glad that my comment could arrive at such an opportune time! Taking a vacation of any sort as
