Since my mental health disability is hard to deal with, I must grapple with the tools I’ve always relied on. I have been afraid to speak of the things I see and hear for a little over half of my 42 years. I use my hands to speak for me when I don’t have the words to communicate about my past and present paranoia and hallucinations.
I created this image so that when I look upon her, my elf-witch speaks of how she perhaps is very broken about her predicament. “I am not a witch!” she seems to speak with her furrowed brow.
While drawing her, it felt as if I were commenting not only to any audience that perhaps would view this image but was also cleansing my tears of fear from childhood trauma – trauma that may or may not have brought on my hallucinations and delusional thinking so early and above all the secret of it all.
Art, above all, has been my best friend.
Sheena
Elf Witch
$60
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