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Shop, con preparations and a quick life update
2 months ago
My shop will remain closed until the end of the first week of September, after the convention is over.
Eurofurence is the only con I can attend this year due to health reasons. I’m really looking forward to seeing my furry friends again. Wandering through the art show, vending in the dealers’ den and sharing meals together in the evenings. Loneliness is often a struggle for me and August feels especially heavy, much like December, so this convention means even more.
The past few weeks have been incredibly busy and I’ve been struggling with my health getting in the way of being as productive as I’d like to be. Still, summer has been kind to me this year. Not too many hot days, just the way I prefer it. I’ve always loved the warm season...winter tends to make my health worse, but I can’t tolerate heat either, so this summer felt like the perfect balance.
Now autumn is already in the air. The birds have fallen silent, no longer singing their mating songs. The air carries a different scent, crisp and earthy. Mist lingers over the meadows in the early mornings...a quiet reminder that the seasons are changing once again.
After the con my shop we'll be opened for about two month to sell remaining art and merchandise. In November I’ll be heading to Southern Europe again to spend the darker season somewhere warmer and brighter than Northern Germany, just as I’ve done the past three years.
Hope you are all doing well!
I promise, there will be more regular updates in future. For the past 20 years, I’ve been trying to come to terms with living with chronic depression and for the past 10 years also with physical illness.
Eurofurence is the only con I can attend this year due to health reasons. I’m really looking forward to seeing my furry friends again. Wandering through the art show, vending in the dealers’ den and sharing meals together in the evenings. Loneliness is often a struggle for me and August feels especially heavy, much like December, so this convention means even more.
The past few weeks have been incredibly busy and I’ve been struggling with my health getting in the way of being as productive as I’d like to be. Still, summer has been kind to me this year. Not too many hot days, just the way I prefer it. I’ve always loved the warm season...winter tends to make my health worse, but I can’t tolerate heat either, so this summer felt like the perfect balance.
Now autumn is already in the air. The birds have fallen silent, no longer singing their mating songs. The air carries a different scent, crisp and earthy. Mist lingers over the meadows in the early mornings...a quiet reminder that the seasons are changing once again.
After the con my shop we'll be opened for about two month to sell remaining art and merchandise. In November I’ll be heading to Southern Europe again to spend the darker season somewhere warmer and brighter than Northern Germany, just as I’ve done the past three years.
Hope you are all doing well!
I promise, there will be more regular updates in future. For the past 20 years, I’ve been trying to come to terms with living with chronic depression and for the past 10 years also with physical illness.
Yes, this summer has been surpringly cool around here too. However the sudden ups and downs of temperatures and weathers made me ill sometimes, haha. Cloudless 32°C one day, then 12°C constant cloudly and rainy the next days, then 30°C again. My body can't adapt this quickly.
Vix
I read somewhere that you also struggle with AuDHD...join the club. Recently got that diagnosis too after15 years of battling chronic exhaustion while running my life at tornado speed. In the past 10 years I've gone through several burn-out cycles and I seem to fail to adapt to society which has pretty much turned me into a zombie. It's such a pity that people with creative minds often end up so exhausted. I hope you keep finding the drive to continue with your art, despite battling depression and loneliness. Hopefully your art brings you some comfort. I love every new piece you make and thanks for sharing it online <3
And indeed, here autumn hangs in the air too... I love the changing seasons just so much. It's so inspiring.
In any case, I wish you all the best!
I’d really love to meet you at Eurofurence one day too ... conventions always are an amazing mix of energy and creativity, but difficult when exhaustion and distance are working against you. Fingers crossed that once your fursuit is finished, you’ll be able to visit one. Maybe even EF!
And yeah, I can really relate to what you wrote about AuDHD and burnout cycles. Same here, that constant push and crash rhythm can be brutal and it often feels like society just isn’t built for the way our minds and bodies work.
I’m really touched that my art means something to you, and it does give me comfort to know it resonates with others. That makes pushing through the rough times feel a little less lonely.
Keep up the great work, your art has such a unique atmosphere, it really draws me in. I love the way you bring so much emotion into it!
So many ideas and often so little energy. But to be looking forwards to something, keeps one going at least :)
I've been feeling that failure to adapt a lot these last years too - having tried so many things and I'm constantly getting drained and hitting walls in a society that is too rigid for me to put my nocturnal hurricane brain to good use. My head just ends up destroying itself under the pressure of (social) demands and being stimulus-overloaded all the time. Then art and going outside can bring comfort - provided I'm not too tired for that too.
Aww, I love your art ever since I joined DA since 2007 and now that I'm finally expanding my scope beyond DA I'm just really glad to have found your art again. I love the energy, the vibrant colours, the dark touch, the glows, the expressions, the dynamic composition.... maybe I should just say everything. I often feel a new burst of motivation to do more traditional art after I've been browsing your gallery.
It really does me good to hear that you like my art too - I'm sometimes a bit insecure about it but knowing that there are people out there who enjoy it, keeps me motivated to share it online too.