The two things I wrote about this week are burnout and coziness, which feel connected to me. Exhaustion is the hunger, and coziness meets the need- here and there, a little bit of lightness when everything is sandbags and stone.
Hope you’re finding moments of total ease and warmth this weekend.
Algorithm-free Art
I finished S2 of The Morning Show last night and was thinking about its depiction of hospitals in March 2020, how chaotic and uncertain it was, when there were so many sick people and not many tests and not enough masks for staff. Covid still feels current, but it seems like a lifetime ago that it all began. So many of us are tired now. It’s hard to know how to grieve terrible things that have become normal.
As we come toward the end of 2021 I’m trying to see all that I’ve experienced, to notice what is missing, what is left, what is new. To calibrate my days to what I truly have the capacity to do. And to consider what it might mean to rebuild myself in the years to come.
❄️ Burnout and Making Art are a couple of several brand new prints I released this week that I created on this topic. And there are a handful of 2022 card sets left in stock too
I am really savoring anything that feels easy and cozy right now. Ginger tea, warm lights, ballads, blankets. What’s feeling good to you?
“Cozy,” 2020. Prints available for a limited time.
How it Feels to Feel Free, a reflection on 2021.
These pieces are icons of the kinds of internal freedom, safety and balance that I noticed in myself this year, which are wonderful and new to me. It’s been a heavy year, but that’s not the whole story. I am also somehow, in some ways, the happiest I’ve ever been.
19 works on paper available now.
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I just finished watching season 2 of The Morning Show. And whoa, yes, that depiction of hospitals and all the unknowns and ever changing information and complexities. I appreciate you naming the difficulties around grief.