#feelingoutloud

Feeling Out Loud (8/8)

This is the last of my small series entitled Feeling Out Loud. I made these drawings because I needed to remind myself to keep feeling my emotions, no matter how contradictory they may seem and no matter how terrifying these times have become. I think there exists within ambivalence the potential to feel things differently, to feel things all at once, to feel things imperfectly, to feel things radically, to feeling things personally, but also to feel things for others without trying to define how others should feel.

I know I haven’t really been keeping up with all of your thoughtful and honest messages. It is not because I don’t care... not at all. I’ve just been working on trying to create other platforms for us to have these amazing discussions. I will be getting back to answer your messages soon (and I have a big surprise project for and about you coming in the next few months.)... but in the meantime, I’ve decided to take a little break from my bigger projects to focus on a tiny little drawing series about feeling all of our emotions out loud. 

In the current political climate, I find it hard to just feel my emotions. I feel so upset and angry about all the time. This recent influx of hatred, racism, sexism, ableism, classism... all the ugly ugly isms that are encouraged and emboldened by the ugly people in power.... all these things make it hard to feel. Sometimes I just want to go numb, stop caring, focus on other things, smaller things....

but

we

have

to 

keep

feeling...

or else they win, and we disappear. 

The next 8 drawings I post are for you, and me.