This is the first piece of art that I have created in more than a year.

My mother died on June 6, 2019. I was a wreck. My sister and I had spent over a month in the hospital with her. It was a drain on us both. I was barely holding it together during her illness, but after she died, I was broken. I thought I had an aneurysm or a stroke. My language skills were depleted. My memory was unreliable. My emotions were chaos. I didn’t feel like myself and I didn’t think I ever would ...

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