This drawing is for my awesome friend and fellow artist, Lindsay Mathers's, zine--a booklet of collected art and writing to give out at Chicago Zine Fest!!
The sentence at the bottom (if you can read my crazy handwriting) is a line from The Weather Inside Book II...just a little teaser ;)
I wanted to capture through this image and these words a sort of summary of my emotions lately. Just when I thought my life couldn't possibly get more intense than it already was, I found love in the external realm and bam! Things got even crazier (in a good way). It is difficult to express many aspects of what I am currently experiencing, but the more poetic I am with the description, the easier it is to describe the indescribable. This image is obviously quite personal, but I wanted it to be universal as well--I wanted to convey by way of these archetypes a message regarding the complex relationship between anima and animus.
'Time disappeared and there was only sensation. It swallowed me, warm and frigid, releasing love so pure it could not be distinguished from terror.'