You ever look back at some of your past art with outside perspective and think something like "Wow. I sure was trying to process and cope with a lot of complicated feelings around being denied autonomy by all of the people in my life that were supposed to be 'loving relationships'. This was the tool I was using to both self soothe over and come to terms with the idea that someone can genuinely love me and want the best for me, but also have a negative affect on my life due to poor coping skills with their own trauma and misunderstandings of what love looks like. I'm also noticing strong themes of my fear of unwittingly repeating that cycle." and then think "It probably looked like something entirely different to someone that didn't know what my life looked like when I made it."
-Ivy
