This is one part of a digital sketch I was making as an idea for a painting when I heard the news about Laney. Art is probably my only way through the moment I’m in - which was already difficult before the devastating loss of my beautiful friend. Losing her has stopped me in my tracks and has brought everything back into focus. What really matters and what really does not.... I know I need to pull back from social media and pull inward for a while. I’ll try? I’m just saying this so there isn’t worry if I do disappear a little. I will be fine. We are all constantly falling apart and falling back together. Underneath it all I’m in the strongest place spiritually and creatively that I’ve ever been in in my life. This year was amazing. I hope next year is even better. ❤️ I just need to process this loss and other losses and deal with my long covid health stuff for a bit - and make art. Lots of art. I don’t want to avoid the pain of this moment. I want to feel it. All of it. 💔✨