It's been a while since my last journal post.
The year started in a weird manner, sometimes slow, other times blazing fast. In fact it's almost May! Ridiculous.

After my last illustration (the Little Mermaid) I couldn't find inspiration for anything, I suddenly went out of sync with the muse (if you want to call it that way). I decided to drop a drawing that I should have finished after several days, but it was taking me so long and I was so unhappy that I could never get it to a satisfactory point. The thing wasn't speaking to me anymore, it was like trying to fix someone else's drawing. Horrible experience.
The best thing to do in cases like these is to let go. It was a true liberation.

Strangely, after I did that, I got very sick. I caught a bad flu that floored me for one week and ruined my easter holidays. I never get that sick, but this time it was terrible. I had fever, cough, muscle pains, headaches...all at once. I even lost weight.
So not only I had lost my muse but also my health.
Maybe they were related, like a process of purification and cleansing, to let go the old ways to leave room for the new? Who knows. I like seeing it this way. If that's how I perceive it perhaps that's how it is.
When you can't connect with your own artwork it means you're going through a crisis or a shift.
I don't know what the shift is about, but it's better to embrace it and let go the old ways.

After one month I'm finally starting to feel the good energy coming back, together with my dear muse and I started something that I hope I won't dislike in a few weeks.
But most importantly, to my surprise, I received the great news that my "Alice in Nukeland" piece (on the left) made it to Spectrum 19!
That's quite amazing, because I thought that selection was over and I had to wait for another year.
Spectrum is a cool book to be featured in, so that too gave me a much needed boost.

I'm still recovering from a bit of cough.
The weather in Hong Kong is horrible in this period. Super humid (it even reached 100% humidity a few weeks ago!), wet, rainy, cloudy, hot, windy, chilly, sticky...bah!
Restaurants are blasting the aircon like there's no tomorrow, making people sick, forcing the body to sudden jumps of temperature. Everyone around me got sick. Nasty crap, and there's nothing we can do.
Hong Kong people would rather freeze to death than drop a sweat.
So I have to endure a few more months, because it's preferable to experience the heat of summer than this roller-coaster nonsense of a weather that keeps going up and down, above and below the comfortable body temperature, together with badly regulated aircon.