drowning in spring.

I've been thinking about this lately -- it must be nice to experience spring. I live in the Philippines, and all it ever is during this time of the year is arid. And constant nagging of, "It's so hot" coming from almost everyone I knew (and never even knew). And the eternal torture of deciding between enduring the heat and managing to save the finances by not paying extra for the electricity bills, or just impulsively buying AC but at least not dying from the excessive dryness (and, again, heat).

Anyway, it must be nice. To anyone who reads this and is somewhere living in a place that experiences spring, how is it? It's a bummer that I end up resorting to imagining the flowers and the trees (and the bees) and the colors in spring. But I can live with it -- I think I experienced it enough from the books I read or the movies and anime series I watched.

Someday, though, I promise myself to experience spring. Then I'll wonder if my thoughts and dreams and imagination ever did it justice.

so thinking about spring...

Man, I have been through quite a lot in the past couple of weeks. I tried many times to write it down just to document whatever I've been feeling or what I've gone through, but words just fail me. I just knew that the last month (or two) was crazy. I survived, though, and before another week of craziness, I found a few days of respite.

The rest got me thinking about -- you guessed it -- spring. I realize that it's nearly ending for some parts of the world, and that summer is just right around the corner. Here in the Philippines, instead of summer, it's going to be the season of rain. And the occasional (or not) (super-)typhoons.

But you know what? The thin line between the dry season and the wet season here is showing such beautiful colors. The seas look immaculate. The clouds and sky are expansive.

Lights in this time look different. The greens are warmer, the reds, colder. And everything's so open, but at the same time so crowded. Somehow, it felt like drowning in spring.

the drawing.

So I ended up drawing the one above to just visualize my thoughts. It's been a long time since I last drew something like this. I mean it! I think the last time had been a year ago? Heck, over a year ago, even. My thoughts and even every little misadventure over the last couple of weeks motivated me do this creation.

(It's even my first time posting here on Alien Art Hive!)

Drawing this had honestly been liberating. I didn't have to think about doing work, responding to emails, or walking under the scorching sun running errands. The whole process felt so new again, after all this time, and it felt so good. (Granted, I got random migraines from overexposing myself to screen time.)

I had so many plans for this. I was thinking about drawing a mermaid instead (mer-May!), or morphing the random tree branch into a hand. I wanted to change her eye colors. I wanted to add random skin blemishes on her face. I even thought about just completely obliterating her eyebrows. I thought about koi fish, cherry blossom trees, flowers, lotus, everything that reminds me of spring.

But I also got reminded of summer. The deeper colors. The brighter lights. The fireflies. Now that I'm writing everything down, it honestly just feels like I never really put so much thought into this one.

It just is.

(The above is a quick process GIF for this artwork. You can spot the indecisiveness I'd had while working on it. I wanted to do more, just that... I don't know what more to add, or remove, or change.)

it's an NFT!

Creating something new means... getting to tokenize it! It's been a while since I last minted anything, and on @nftshowroom at that, too. I'm not sure when I'll be able to gas up creative juices again, but I'm just so happy it's here.

drowning in spring on NFT Showroom.

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Notes

Just dropping by to say, "Hiii!" It's been a long while. Over the course of the last few months, I had gotten sick many times, sometimes every other week. I recently got tested, and it's thankfully not COVID. My immune system just really sucks lately.

It has been crazy hot here in the Philippines. There had been random downpours here and there in between the days, but they just make it harder to breathe.

Please take care of yourselves! Drink lots of water and eat healthily!