There has been no new art from me because I have lost most of my ability to draw with my main hand and have no idea if the ability to do so will return in that hand with time.

For the last 13 years, I have quietly suffered periodically with a mystery condition that afflicts the hand I use primarily to draw. It strikes from out of the blue and can mean days, weeks, months, and at one point years of difficulty gripping objects and moving them. It impacts on both my ability to write and to draw. It frustrates me because my hand does not do what I want it to do.

Shortly after I submitted my last submission? It struck again worse than ever along with vision issues. Two of my fingers are near useless, I have lost all feeling in them and proprioception of them. I am incapable of fully straightening them without much effort and keeping them straightened is beyond me, the other three digits have also become prone to buckling. Being as they are necessary to my ability to hold and move a pencil? Well the results of me trying to draw are both exhausting and downright awful. (You should see me trying to butter bread as well, it's very ham fisted since my ability to grip is severely compromised as well through out my hand which the condition has massively weakened)

I have also suffered a lose of vision, I am afflicted by a black spot in both eyes that comes and goes, and as luck would have it? It's right in the middle of my vision. I am awaiting seeing yet another specialist in the hopes that this one will have an answer as to what is causing this.

Fortunately I still have my other hand and have begun training to draw and write right handed given the severity of this problem. I fully intend to fight this illness and keep my art.

There just won't be any new art for a while as I work to come back from whatever the hell is going wrong with my hand.