This drawing is part of a larger series called "ending fatigue." The term is borrowed from film studies and refers to the feeling of frustration and exhaustion that occurs when a movie appears to end several times or reaches a climax but then keeps going interminably. I’m interested in eroding the binary between blind optimism and doomsday thinking that is cultivated in late capitalism, which affects both personal relationships and our relationship to the world. The images that I draw are side doors to processing buried memories, but they usually work in reverse—forging significance out of the quotidian.

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