Dance of the Sunset (& a trip down memory lane)
Added 2020-05-08 03:02:11 +0000 UTCQuarantine has had me thinking about what my family relationship mean to me. In the sense that I've had to realize, that my family isn't immortal. Life is very short, and I want to make sure I spend it cherishing the people who are good to me.
My grandma has always been one of the biggest supporters of my art. She's kept drawings from ever since I was little, puts them in frames, and tells all of her friends about her artist granddaughter. In 2012, I made a drawing that I titled "sunset singer" and she loved it. Just absolutely loved it. (It's the second image attached in this post!)
When I was a teenager, I went through a brief bratty phase where I was so embarrassed of my old art. I wouldn't look at it, I wouldn't let anyone else look at it, I would only show my family the recent stuff and I'd berate myself constantly. I'm not proud of it, but I stole the 2012 Sunset Singer drawing out of my grandma's picture frame because I thought it was ugly.
My grandma was really sad about that, understandably, and every time I'd ask if she'd like a replacement drawing, she would ask me to draw another version of the Sunset Singer.
So this year, 8 years later, in 2020, during a quarantine and a universal pandemic, I have finally redrawn the piece. It is now titled "Dance of the Sunset."
This is a surprise for my grandmother, and I'll have my mom deliver it to her on Saturday when she comes by to drop off groceries.
I really hope she likes it! I'm very proud of this.
