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Inktober 2018 Days 11 and 12

Hi peeps, 

So, I don't know how many of you follow me on Instagram, but if you do, you may have seen my stories yesterday, and heard about my unfortunate mistake yesterday evening.
Basically, I locked myself out of my flat, because I'm really talented at being an idiot. 

I went for a run at lunch, because I hadn't exercised in a while, and I was starting to feel it in both my body and mind. In order to bring only the bare minimum with me, I took my house keys off their normal chain, and put them in my pocket. Went for my run. Realised just how unfit I am. Tried to pet a few dogs and catch a squirrel. Got home. Chucked my keys on my desk. Worked. Worked. Worked. Evidently forgot about my keys.
It came to about 7pm, and I had finished editing my video for that day, so I set it to rendering (the last step, which is always the longest as the software is basically turning the editing footage into the final mp4 file, basically a waiting game), and I decided to take the bins out. I ran out, taking my normal key chain with me, and utterly. forgetting. about. my. actual. keys.
See? Idiot.

Locked. Myself. Out. Of. My. Flat. Yay. 

My boyfriend was out to dinner with his mum, so he wasn't going to be back until about 10pm, and I didn't want to bother him while he was with his mum, so I didn't tell him.
Instead, I called a locksmith, and told them on the phone that I DID NOT want our lock damaged or changed, just opened. The guy agreed, told me it would be £60 (yay), and half an hour later, arrived and took his drill out. And seeing the horrified look on my face, told me he had to break the lock, no other way to get in. I got slightly upset because.....well, I HAD EXPRESSLY said that I DID NOT WANT THAT, BEFORE he even agreed to come. To which he said "Ok, that'll be £25".
Erm. What now?
Needless to say I refused (big feat for me, my boyfriend always likes to describe me as "too nice", so refusing to pay him activated all my overactive feelings of guilt, but I was going to be damned if I agreed to that).

In the end, I simply waited for my boyfriend to come home, switching between boiling anger at my own stupidity, despair at the humongous amount of work I was getting behind on, ranting on Instagram, and wanting to cry. Twas fun! 

But then my boyfriend got home, chided me for not calling him earlier, and made me a hot water bottle, chamomile tea and a bowl of ramen. Sweet man that he is. And all was ok. Obviously.  

So yeah. All that to say that I didn't manage to finish yesterday's drawing, well...yesterday, so here are yesterday's and today's drawings now! XD Hahaha

Just thought you might enjoy a little tale of stupidity on my part XD

Hope you're all well, and snug in your homes lovelies, 

Take care!
M

Inktober 2018 Days 11 and 12

Comments

The 'Facing Faces': Incredible and, like all the looks on the possibilities of oneself, a little bit scary. This one impresses me a lot and I'm not sure, if I captured all of this, what it sparks in me. For me it's a kind of re-reflecting. I am confronted with my own faces, get the possibility to look at all myselfs or faces I use in my life in different situations, the roles I play or have got to play in my world (the face when I'm on work is another as in front of my partner or grandmother or my child or,or,or). At the same time these faces, roles are looking at me, judging me(?), and I'm not quite sure what they're thinking about me. At last there's the point that I am (or better 'feel') faceless. I have the choice between a lot of "me", can be who is needed in this moment, but the last question is: Who am I without these roles for the environment? What remains, when I'm alone? No own face? Only a few thoughts to your painting, they're touching me a lot.

Your new paintings are unbelievable! I needed time to sort my thoughts to write anything at all...The Wall: How you hit the phanomenon of dividing a part of oneselves. It happens not only in traumatic scenarios that someone builds a wall to split off a part, feelings or personality shares, cause it is needed to survive a situation. It reminded also on a greece myth, that all humans created as a half and always search for their missing other half...in this case both parts obviously won't come to each other. On another base it is a symbol for the stupid things where we as humans divide each other with mostly stupid reasons, all the ressentiments or political agitation for economically advantages and so on, not seeing that we are one on a planet. A complex and beautiful painiting!

I'm sorry to hear about you locking yourself out of the apartment, I can imagine I would be very angry with myself in that situation! These drawings are amazing, I'm wondering how you can produce work of this high of a quality every time! Your art never fails to make me stop and look at it and feel something.

Good idea 😅

Glad you got inside, Life has the most unfortunate little mistakes doesn’t it? I LOVE these two btw!!

If you have someone you trust & lives close by, this is what my family does, we keep a copy of our house key at 3 other family’s house 5-10 miles from my house & call whoever’s at home to the rescue in such incidents

Thanks for sharing your unfortunate experience, you’re not alone, happened to me few times as well as my family members, so this is good friendly reminder😂....these are awesome pieces Myriam, love, love them, thanks again for your nice creations😊


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