Month: January 2026

• Rebuilding the Codex Drawing Series

  Last year I tore up several drawings, including all 3 from my Codex series during what I can only describe as a clearing-out impulse. I didn’t expect to revisit them and honestly thought they were gone for good, but recently I realised some of my drawings could be reconstructed — not perfectly, but closely enough…

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  January 20, 2026

  Art, Art & Expression, Artists, Creativity, Grief and Healing, Mercurial Minds, Neurodivergence, traditional art, Visual Art

  A3 Moleskine, Abstract Drawing, Codex Series, Drawing, Drawing Series, experimental drawing, Experimentation, Markers, Moleskine, Moleskine sketchbook, Pen, Pen and Ink, Visual Art

• How AI is Shifting our Language

  

  A look at how large-scale AI quietly rewired everyday speech — from “nervous system” talk to the rise of “sovereignty” — and why our cultural vocabulary is shifting faster than psychiatry can keep up.

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  January 15, 2026

  AI & Technology, Art, Art & Expression, Artists, Change and Transformation, Conversations, Creativity, Culture, Culture & Society, Fine Art, Human Behaviour, Identity & Transformation, Intuition & Intelligence, Mental Health, Mercurial Minds, Modern Identity, Neurodivergence, Social Commentary, Society, Technology & Society, traditional art, Visual Art

  Abstract Drawing, AI, AI & Technology, Autonomy, ChatGPT, Drawing, Language, language and culture, Large Language Model, Lexicon, Lexicon & Language, LLM, Mental Health, Nervous System, psychiatry, Psychiatry is Failing Us, Sovereign, sovereignty, Visual Art, Vocabulary

• Marker Study No 2

  Void Halo No. 2 A weekend exercise in line and repetition, made with pens and markers in my A3 Moleskine. Nothing complicated—just a compass, patience, and the pleasure of mark-making.

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  January 14, 2026

  Art, Art & Expression, Artists, Change and Transformation, Crash, Burn, Write., Creativity, Experimental Techniques, Fine Art, Grief & Healing, Mental Health, Mercurial Minds, Neurodivergence, Tools and Materials, traditional art, Visual Art

  A3 Moleskine, abstract art, Abstract Drawing, Drawing, Drawing Series, experimental drawing, Grief and Healing, Healing Journey, Markers, Moleskine sketchbook, Neurodivergence, neurodivergent, pattern recognition, pen on paper, Study

• A Quiet Pencil Study

  Keeping the pressure off by doodling in my journal instead of an actual sketchbook. A quick pencil rendition of an Edward Weston 1936 nude — something to draw while I was scrolling and thinking about other things. Should I post my artwork on this blog more often? Should I consider opening a Patreon creator account?

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  January 13, 2026

  Art, Art & Expression, Artists, Crash, Burn, Write., Creativity, Experimental Techniques, Fine Art, Memoir Excerpts, Mercurial Minds, Neurodivergence, Social Media, Visual Art

  Art, artist, autism spectrum, Burn, cptsd, Crash, Creativity, Drawing, Grief and Healing, Healing Journey, mindfulness, Neurodivergence, pencil art, Pencil Drawing, survivor, traditional art, Visual Art, Write.

• Survivors

  The three mandalas shown on this post were executed on photocopy paper while I was hospitalized in the summer of 2022, and somehow survived the purge of 2025 — even though I destroyed (among many other drawings of mine) a bunch of mandalas I did months later, back home. I had used a compass in…

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  January 9, 2026

  Art, Art & Expression, Artists, Change and Transformation, Crash, Burn, Write., Creativity, Experimental Techniques, Grief & Healing, memoir, Memoir Excerpts, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, Personal Essays, Personal Essays/Autobiography, Studio Life, traditional art, Visual Art

  Art, cptsd, Creativity, Grief and Healing, Healing Journey, Mandalas, memoir, Mental Health, mental health awareness, Neurodivergence, pattern recognition, Pen and Ink, psychological abuse, spirituality, traditional art, trauma, Visual Art