willow bee

i've memorized it. topography on the map of you, a world i'm still charting. i know it.

Euripides, from "Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

I always knew I wanted to draw this as a split screen moment — each of their bodies creating the parentheses with their respective bedrooms bleeding into each other — but it was my talented friend @penpanoply who had the idea of hand-lettering the quotations from Alex & Henry’s emails into the bedsheets between them. So she did! Be sure to click to view the close up of her perfect handlettering and the gorgeous sheet patterns she created!

“He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles.” - Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Okay, I think this is my best fanart ever.