Dear World, here we are again at the start of another year. It’s the beginning of 2024 and I have to say the year started off in a pretty spectacular fashion with champagne, fireworks, and going out with friends. I feel like every year since Covid has been a bit of a haze, we are several years on now from that blasted global chaos and yet my normal routines and healthy habits prior to the pandemic have yet to fully recover.
I was once quite a gym rat, and now I often find myself wrestling with the idea of going to the gym, followed by hours of telling myself why it was better that I didn’t go.. Perhaps the biggest loss for me, is my practice of drawing or painting almost everyday. I used to do it almost automatically, whereas these days I often spend a lot of time just starting at a blank page before me, or conversely just grabbing tools and splashing and making marks only to look down at the chaotic mess I made with intense dissatisfaction and dismay.
Perhaps 2024 is the year where I’ll finally be able to crack the code of sitting in the passenger seat and finally get my gym and art work ethic but in shape. I hope you all who are reading this will stay tuned to the journey this year.
Some watercolor and gouache paintings I did in the winter of 2023 that I am actually proud of. Perhaps I will release these as a part of a watercolor mini series.