Dear Diary An Archive of Personal Musings

14.11.2024
As a flower, monotype and graphite on somerset 300gsm, 2023
text written in cursive with non-dominant hand. written text reads as “I hoped he came back as a flower. I hope he came back as a flower. I know he came back as a flower. I know him as also the flowers that be. As a flower...”

I have been thinking about a song, time, and my brother. I have been mostly feeling, mostly grasping, mostly trying to understand. Anyways, please read my text called TIME presented in the image above. It begins... “Thinking about the song titled Come back as a flower written by Syreeta Wright and performed by Stevie Wonder. The lyrics read, “I envied all the silence I saw growing. So unmoved by things outside themselves...”

artwork and writing by Angela Maree Sáenz