When I'm sad or having a rough time, I look at work that either makes me smile, or helps me think through my problems. At the moment, it's Lizzy Stewart's Solo project, which is "a sort of diary about doing things in London", that's helping me iron out my brain creases. Solo is exactly that, an illustrated diary of a 20-something year old introverted illustrator, just trying to make her way in the world. It's at once poignant, funny, heart-warming, brutally honest, and sometimes very, very sad. There's nothing groundbreaking in there, it's just day-to-day happenings of life,but for some reason I find it so comforting to look through. It's an interesting way of getting your head around what it means to be alive and to be searching for answers for questions that you're not even sure of.
Solo brought so much comfort to me, for whatever reasons, during a very rocky patch. Something that really helped clear my head was keeping a solo style diary of my own for a while. It helped me see and think more clearly, a way to be honest with myself about how I was feeling. It was a very cathartic process.
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