#estrangement

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This jumper was inspired by grief, and the isolation that sometimes comes as a result of people seeing the depths and complexity of that grief. The creatures on the front are modelled on this cover of a horror novel I read nearly 2 years ago called Monstrilio, about a grieving mother who grows her 11 year old son from a piece of his deceased body’s lung. The whole process of designing and knitting this, especially as I was recovering from top surgery - something that was greatly opposed by my family, felt like a reflection on love, grief and its monstrosity.

Jessica Jocelyn from Paper Flowers

(Footnote: I am not estranged from my parents, I have strong opinions about this for therapist reasons.)

Lindsay Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

I have stood long enough in this expanse, listening in ragged expectation for footsteps, or a hand unlatching a door My heart is a lone swan floating on a calm pond, broken-winged eyeing a migration it cannot join Watch a flock of sea birds escaping a tsunami They move as a unit, efficient hours of flight without flapping Am I the solitary wave in this atmosphere—a soliton of destruction, unaware? Everything here is becoming something else Am I the green light across the water, or the one observing? Until the end of possibility I remain in this field of still water There is silence at the water's edge— the world beyond seems far, far away

Snip snip bitch

Don’t open the door.