Illustration by Captain TwinkySpiff, Poetry by Ray
Note from the artist:
I have worked on this illustration by personalising the words with my existence, understanding what these words would mean to me, and then taking a pencil and letting the idea flow. I have attempted to fortify my relationship with the words by shaping them out in ink. The shading with ball point pen is to add relatable depth.
The colours used are Black and Red. All that is going on is in Black – a colour that harbours all other colours within its definition. Like my heart. Like our Hearts. Like your Heart?
Wherever ‘She’ can and wherever it is needed, she breathes life into those hearts again. The Red emerges from the Black at those places.
The lines, forms, shapes depicted are the ones I envisioned in accordance to the many questions that come to the mind when I read the poem. What maintains my balance on the tight rope I walk on, from which I can fly away? What is it within me that is worthy of revering? What captures you? What is so lovingly terrifying? It is my Darkness. The souls I constantly heal, witness my darkness. Yet, this darkness is healing them. How? They know not. Hence. the reverence.
