I've been feeling very poorly as of late. It seems my endometriosis just keeps getting worse and worse, and I had an incredibly bad flare-within-a-flare over the last three days. Pain so bad that I'm having weird ideas that don't make a lot of sense, crying when nobody's looking, trying not to vomit, fevers, diarrhea - the whole shebang. When I get bad, I am a veritable crudités platter of symptoms. I don't have an entire post for you, but I'm trying to keep this blog going and post at regular intervals. Therefore, I'm sharing some art I did, which is weird for me, because I mostly consider myself shit at art. But it's all I've got to share, and I think it's less bad than my usual art, and anyone who has been reading this blog has already been exposed to my crap art, so here it goes. Above, you can see a truly mediocre painting of two prescription pill bottles, which instead of instructions, read: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything". This is an actual real quote that Charles Darwin actually really wrote in a letter. I love this quote - Charles Darwin struggled with health issues and was actually a bit of a recluse. The knowledge that Darwin could be angry and miserable and sick but still make such valuable contributions makes me feel a little less bad about how often I am angry and miserable and sick. Here is a less-mediocre-but-still-meh painting of a person wearing a little yellow raincoat rowing a small boat on a stormy sea. Underneath the person is the last two lines of the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley: "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." I've made a reference to this poem before on this blog - I love it and I use it as a sort of "pain mantra". I'm sure I'll devote an entire blog post to it someday.
Anyways, there you have it folks, some amateur art that is at least tangentially chronic illness-related. Enjoy it, and then go look at some better art. Might I recommend an art museum? They're these cool places where you can see art by people who are good at art, thoughtfully curated and displayed by people who understand and appreciate art. Also, the art is actually there, instead of just bad pictures of the art, which is what this blog primarily features. I know, I know, it sounds too good to be true, but I promise, art museums are as real as my chronic illnesses. Which is to say, very real.
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Grace Daly
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