I read this post first thing this morning, and the poignancy and resonance stayed with me all day. I ached for your father losing his sight and feeling the time passing all too quickly. My own father was drawing almost all the way to the end of his time here.
I took a graphic memoir class (with Sarah Shaw, via SVA—highly recommended!) and met a woman who is also a writer and around my age. We both felt suddenly possessed to make comics, and quickly. Time, we agreed, was doing what time does, and we felt an urgency to create and get our stories out there.
Thank you for sharing all of this with us, Nikki. You're making art in more ways than one.
"For me, there is definitely a correlation between aging and creative output. I feel this huge pressure to learn more, make more, do more, and leave something of myself behind". This sentence really rang true for me, although I don't really feel any pressure to leave something of myself behind.
I have only recently stopped telling myself (and often others too!) that I am not creative... I'd been reflecting on things and thinking about future content for When I'm 64... and realised that having been an actor, an amateur musician and having written on and off over the years that it is silly to deny that I am creative 😆
So, now I really feel the pressure to catch up on years of not doing things because I felt that I couldn't, or shouldn't, and am wishing that I'd had this realisation when I was younger and had more energy and vitality!
I loved 'Staring into the Abyss', thanks so much for posting it 🙏🏽
I read this post first thing this morning, and the poignancy and resonance stayed with me all day. I ached for your father losing his sight and feeling the time passing all too quickly. My own father was drawing almost all the way to the end of his time here.
I took a graphic memoir class (with Sarah Shaw, via SVA—highly recommended!) and met a woman who is also a writer and around my age. We both felt suddenly possessed to make comics, and quickly. Time, we agreed, was doing what time does, and we felt an urgency to create and get our stories out there.
Thank you for sharing all of this with us, Nikki. You're making art in more ways than one.
"For me, there is definitely a correlation between aging and creative output. I feel this huge pressure to learn more, make more, do more, and leave something of myself behind". This sentence really rang true for me, although I don't really feel any pressure to leave something of myself behind.
I have only recently stopped telling myself (and often others too!) that I am not creative... I'd been reflecting on things and thinking about future content for When I'm 64... and realised that having been an actor, an amateur musician and having written on and off over the years that it is silly to deny that I am creative 😆
So, now I really feel the pressure to catch up on years of not doing things because I felt that I couldn't, or shouldn't, and am wishing that I'd had this realisation when I was younger and had more energy and vitality!
I loved 'Staring into the Abyss', thanks so much for posting it 🙏🏽
Raisin pie, oh I would be high for DAYS 😂