Although I feel a kind of shame around drawing in this way- it's almost too easy and satisfying- I love doing it and I love the result. I'm still puzzling over how I can take it further, but for now it actually feels like the only work I can really do, because it's quiet and portable, meditative, not messy. I'm doing a lot of grieving at the moment and I feel like this has to come into my work at some point because it's been a big part of my life over the past two years, but it does make creating work feel a little counter intuitive right now. It definitely factors in to my interest in worship, shrines, and particularly reliquaries, as a way of creating something beautiful from death. I would love to make use of the ashes of my aunt and grandfather in this way, but it feels very important that something actually beautiful comes out of this, to actually honour my loved ones and not take advantage of their deaths for the shock factor.
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