About the Process:

After I started this series on self discovery I really wanted to create something to voice my opinions on toxic relationships. I had been through a lot with toxic places and people it had affected me quite a bit. I felt stretched to maintain all these relationships out of fear that I’d get hurt again. My therapist had encouraged me to straight out block these people from my life for my own well being. Unfriend, block, delete, and just surgically cut myself from those people. Here’s a sketch of where my idea came from. Originally I had people handing around but I changed it to clouds since I felt these were more expressive to how toxic people “hang” around.

This was really the first piece I felt super comfortable making this composition feel like how I felt juggling people around. I twisted my body around to sort of shove these clouds out of the way as I’m keeping on with my daily life. I wrote down so many common phrases I’d hear from these people. I never really worked with text on a piece so keeping this nice to look at while getting my point across was an interesting challenge.

This piece originally looked like this before I decided to change it up. I just didn’t like the phrases and felt the new type and colors worked out better. Regardless, I’m glad that I was able to finish this because its something so personal to me. Another one down for the books! Check out the time lapse below!