Everything is Going to Be Fine

Acrylic, ink pen, colored pencil, and metallic graffiti markers on a handmade custom wood panel.

This one didn’t start out optimistic. I was trying to paint a dismembered astronaut, drifting and clearly not fine at all. It wasn’t working. I got annoyed, grabbed a marker, and wrote EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE right across it without thinking. 

I thought I might've ruined it.

The next day it sunk in a little more. The floating, broken-up spaceman and the forced reassurance felt honest together. The wires holding him together, the calm declaration, the pink grid underneath it all—it stopped being a fix and started being the piece.

Sometimes the message shows up after the frustration. Everything is subconscious.

One of one original artwork. Signed.