Only Grace is a comic project I drew between June 2020 and April 2021. In that period, lots happened: I sold our old flat, bought and moved into a new one, and had yet another scary medical episode. In the last couple of months, Only Grace was made into an actual comic book ol' skool ampulets style - printed at home and bound by hand, in a limited first edition of 50. This was the way us amps made them books ways before I met J, before J started ampulets design studio, and before we created Neighbourgoods for these projects. I have only just realised that Only Grace has appeared only on IG and FB and not this blog - ah, how social media has taken over our lives. So here is a quick documentation of Only Grace. 1. Above is the first sketch I made of the characters in June 2020. It was after one of my post-dinner walks during the lockdown season. I sketched these characters quickly. They didn't need much editing or thinking - it was a rare moment of "first inspiratio
[Trigger warning: this post mentions death and suicide.] I stopped wearing a watch soon after J died. It wasn't conscious at first. I thought I could wear one of his, but it didn't feel right. I have since given all of his nice watches away except for a $25 Casio and a GShock Frogman he bought soon after we got together. Before he died, I would refuse to wear a watch on weekends. It was a sign that I was "off" from work - my time was mine - and his. What is your relationship to time? Some of us are horrible at keeping time. We are constantly late. Some of us pack too much into a day, and we fail to understand how much time is needed for most of living. Some of us just work away - giving ourselves to whatever it is that demanded our attention at the present. Some of us live in a kind of diseased nostalgia, unhappy with our present and not seeing much of a future. And some of us are always making plans. And if we are not making plans, we are dreaming, constantly dream
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