I come from a long lineage of people who have found ways to live in terrible times, to fight to survive while refusing to lose themselves.

If I want to ever be okay
I will need to find a way to be okay
even when things are not okay.

This is what I’ve been telling my friends on the phone when they ask me how I am. How are you?

yikess

I came across this image of Octavia E. Butler’s journals. I can’t stop reading it. Wanted to show you.

“Good is only sexy when it’s very powerful, not sanctamonious, and not too good. <real>”

“Dependency is also sexy when it is chosen”

“Downturns are only sexy if they are temporary.”

Amen.

Healing is ... normal 🌕

i’ve been thinking about how sleep is one of the most vulnerable things we do. how we must become quiet and soft and unaware, taking the world as a it is.

When hard things don’t recede, I am learning to build out a life around them.

This is even how I began making art — I was sick, and when my life was all out-of-the-house, up-and-around stuff, the pain seemed to stop everything. (1/3)

I love @britchida.bsky.social mail day.

Sharing my best work from 2024 over the next few posts! here’s one from the summer, called “Doing good”
#artsky #fineart #mentalhealth

IMPENDING JOY: it’s too late, good things are coming.

this is one of my newest paintings, part of my series, IMPENDING JOY

#fineart #abstractart #queerart #pnwartist

i’m liking the vibe here and wondering why almost my entire feed is astronomy photos?

did you become who they wanted you to be?

when arriving someplace new ✨ hi bluesky

#artist #queer #fineart #writer