I had this ‘assignments as part of an art journal class online I’m doing. It was to make an art fairy who sends you a positive message about your art.

Now this year I’m working hard to trust my own process and listen to myself and working to build my own artistic style. So when I felt strongly that I needed to go a different direction, I went there.

I’m having an immensely difficult time right now, I’m depressed and suicidal (but safe). Turns out memories can still rock my world and my entire being.

So this is what happened.

She is full of symbolism. Her dress is purple as is the color our Littles use most often, and this is a color of innocence and simplicity. She is sad because it is important to honor my feelings, and allow them to be what they are. The sunflower is to remember their is always good things, the swirl plants are tendrils of anxiety growing up and the swirls in the air are the same. The sun is bright because the world still moves forward and that is important to remember. It’s easy to get stuck in the past. Dragonflies just always show up in my art and the bee is currently a mystery. Eventually the meaning of the bee will present itself. The word breathe is up top because it is so very important to remember to breathe, to breathe deeply.