March’s Two Escape Artists Challenge: Revisit and older piece of work. I decided to re-do a print I made back in 2014, “Molt”. The point of the original piece was to show change and since then my view and experience of change has shifted. It’s messy and challenging and different. So I decided to add another element to the print which was embroidery.
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Papercut piece for the A Darker Shade of Magic series by V.E. Schwab. Each world has my favorite location in it.
For some reason I wanted to go super small (4.5″x6.5″; the circle diameter is 2.8″). I love how it turned out but this was insanely detail oriented and time consuming (hello post that was suppose to be months ago).
when you go from a bad situation into a better one you may collapse exhausted and unsure what to do and full of grief, you may need time to regain the ability to do things as yourself or motivated by anything other than terror, you may need time to process or mourn or fall apart in ways you could not before,
and people may use this as proof that the old situation was better for you, proof that you need to go back, and it is not proof that it was better for you or proof that you need to go back
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It’s so incredibly common to “fall apart” when you’re finally safe. You no longer need to stay so tightly coiled in on yourself, you can finally leave survival mode and process your trauma. You’re not holding yourself up by sheer terror anymore and suddenly the damage that terror has done to you becomes immediate and obvious.
This is so important. Don’t go back. Things are already getting better, even if it doesn’t feel that way.
