A Shared Reality

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren

Atreyu, of the Grassy Sea. Painting of my favorite character from one of my favorite books of all time, the Neverending Story. I still pour one out for Artax.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on my blog before, but in my non-nail-art life I am a psychiatric nurse, and I work with children and adolescents struggling with severe mental illness.  Some of the kids dig my nail art, so lately I’ve been trying to paint designs that I think they’ll enjoy.  This is one of those, because it embodies the hope I have for all of them (and for myself as well): that we can find a way to live with our broken bits that makes our lives more beautiful, not less.