Bored
This word was boring. Bored was boring. I’m so glad that I draw for a week because usually it feels like nothing can happen and then, it does. I could really only think in one style, in one color. When that happens it means that I can only see down one street, I get stuck in my ways, you see. But on day four I started trying to think of different ways of expressing Bored. And on day six, I even made an extra drawing. My process was as follows.
The drawings go in order, Days 1-5. Click on the first drawing and you can click through them all.
Day 1. Bored is expressionless, light, there is nothing to say. I am a jellyfish in a cloud, I have no thought.
Day 2: Bored is when you are in conversation with someone and you find that your eyes have gone out of focus and you are nodding but have no idea what they have just said and now you are expected to respond, wittily.
Day 3: bored is when you doodle on a zoom call because someone is endlessly talking about things that completely and utterly make no sense or have no place in your world and oh, this is a nice pattern.
Day 4: Bored is not always irritation, but perhaps a space where you observe things around you. Hanging out of your window hoping to see something exciting.
Day 5: This is bored. You want to be somewhere else. In bed reading a good book, curled up with that crochet project, washing your hair
Day 6: But when you have exhausted it all, bored is when you try and wake yourself up, you decide to try something new, in the vacuum of your mind you come up with new ideas! And then, something different, something beautiful emerges.
This is the Draw Your Feelings Project.
Next Feeling: Frustrated
Will you join me? This is a year long project, dedicated to connecting to our feelings and ourselves through our art. Send me your drawings, I’d love to see them!