If you know me, you know I have endometriosis. This year I even started to share work about living with the condition on this blog. I have quite a fun little monthly project called #BloodWork where I document one of the realities of having the condition and make funny, fun little reimagined images from phone-cam pictures. I recognise that some readers of this blog find it confronting... blood IS confronting. It shouldn't be when it's just menstrual blood but alas...
I am so excited about abstract painting that I am openly sharing my process pretty much daily over on Instagram... Siobhán Vs Abstract And secondly, because I just published a demo of a tune and intend to finally start sharing demos regularly on this site. Health challenges are probably the number one reason I have struggled to share my songs over the years, through performance and cataloguing through recording. I also have young kids, so for better or worse my songs won't be given the production treatment I would like to give them before putting them out into the world. I have had to make peace with my own limitations over the years it regards to how my health affects ALL areas of my life but it's affect on art-making is very hard for me to accept, when it comes to performance in particular. Endometriosis can often feel like 'a life half lived' but chuck in the racket in my head and... ... ... well just getting out of bed can feel impossible on bad days. That's me, eleven years ago, on the Sunshine Coast, recording. At the beginning of a wonderful but challenging decade that would see me make nowhere near the strides I had hoped to with music and song-writing. And this is me now, baby down for nap, menstrual products and pain-killers stocked up, still wearing my nightie, recording a guitar part. This is me, knowling my limitations and deciding to make some art in spite of it all!
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