This piece is called 'Draw the Impossible... BE the Impossible'
'Just Breathe...' is a mantra I often find myself repeating over and over and over again in my head, throughout my life... but particularly during times of stress
One of my first experiments with soft 'chalky' pastels, using a theme I am used to drawing as it has appeared so often in my gel pen drawings... I must say, that a smiling Little Red Ridinghood was a surprise though (perhaps there has been a little bit of emotional release happening in 'her' world of late?)... as was the little girl in the blue dress, appearing halfway off of the actual page (certainly not something my OCD would usually tolerate)... I do like the movement that she gives the piece though
This piece is one of my favourites... It is a picture that shows a rare moment of balance and integration where night and day exist inside of me in exactly the same proportions... Where a garden of love and life begins to bloom... This is a self-portrait... I am the 'Integrated Butterfly' (represented by the interlocked puzzle pieces)... I remember the day I drew this piece... I felt happy and I felt whole
This is how being D.I.D. feels for Me when I am not coping
I ADORE this piece!
It is very much a detailed self-portrait... but it is also the point at which I became almost obsessed with the idea of building my own dolls' house (which is currently a work in progress)... I remember feeling a massive surge of creativity and this sense that I had finally 'broken through' as an artist...
It was this piece that also resulted in me beginning to write adult children's bedtime stories (Bedtime Stories for Fractured Children), inspired by my own drawings...
I experienced such an intense childlike joy at the completion of this piece and I often go back and just 'disappear into it' when I am not feeling very safe or happy... This piece is also my daughters' favourite piece and the one they always beg me to show off to their friends
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