from 9/12/24:
Here are a couple of pictures of Aftermath. 1) CLEAR SPACE on my drafting table! and 2) the portrait in my very crowded studio, after being moved off my drafting table and put where I can look at it properly...
9/18/24:
I am recovering... I told a good friend that hearing congratulations for this felt a bit like hearing "Congratulations, your child just died..." Does that sound weird? (Or maybe horrific - my apologies if it does...) But our projects are our children, and sometimes finishing a big one feels like a death: it was alive while I was working on it and it was changing (= growing); now it's no longer alive, and I feel it as pain...
That said, and, all the same, getting congratulated helps me get through that. Because it isn't really a death, and certainly nowhere near the trauma that the real death of one's child is.
Tech tip: do you want to see any of these larger? Click on the image to make it almost-full-browser-window size. (This is not the same as "full screen...")
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