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X // Day 27, 21 April 2020

April 21, 2020 in 2020, Parentheses

After many attempts at making a drawing of something beautiful today, after really wanting to say something lovely and gentle and happy and sweet, it just didn't happen. I drew and drew and drew and nope, nothing worked. I kept going and going until the light went but what I ended up with was this X.

Deep red and rough as guts.

Maybe I was trying too hard to do something nice. Trying too hard to be positive and fcking fabulous and grateful for all the things I'm meant to be grateful for right now when actually maybe if I'm honest that's not how I'm feeling.

Maybe this is me putting a big red X over all the B.S.

[PS: Excuse the muddy incorrectly sized picture. Photoshop kept crashing tonight so this is direct from my phone. Apparently my scratch disks are full. YES I googled and no that did NOT help. I still couldn't work out what to do. And YES you're right, how did you guess, I AM off to eat chocolate and watch Netflix. FML.]

[ X 2020 is available as a limited edition studioprint]

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