Painful Memories

Commission for David finished just at the beginning of March.

Original drawing, made on 90 g/m cream recycled paper - 12x17cm.

He asked for a black and white drawing in a sketched style similar to my first works in particular.

I also wrote something on the back of the final drawing:

"With time I realized that the heart's memory has the tendency to eliminate the bad and magnify the good.

But when something bad happens, nice memories seem to slip through your fingers while unhappy ones become persistent, little ghosts that tear you open and leave you in pieces. Those memories will keep floating back again and again unless you do something more than cover the wound and hope for something, anything.

Forgetting usually isn't enough, because the true problem of holding the memories is not the pain but the loneliness they reveal.

As you may know, pain softens over time while loneliness become a burden you can't forget month after month.

Maybe the best you can do is picking yourself up off the floor in the first place."