August offering

Croeso beautiful being

charcoal and pastel drawing

In this August offering, you may find some resonance with my reflections on systemic injustice, accompanied by something I drew after the passing of a dear friend.

What we are witnessing today, for me, is the same shit, different day – lies, excuses, the blame game, inaccuracy, obfuscation, systemic violence, the perpetual dodging of facts, and the superficial inquiries that lead nowhere.

Have you cottoned on to the age-old political hack prioritising ideological power, loyalties, and profit over institutional accountability to the people? Once thinly veiled, these agendas are becoming more and more obvious, thus making a complete farce of everything that Western democracy is meant to stand for – is it not?

This is what’s been on my mind – along with the deepening concern of who will have access to natural resources when they become scarce before a returning cycle of abundance. It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that class and race will have a part to play in their distribution. Perhaps this will be the binding of the many?

It is with this in mind that I share this drawing, which for me is a metaphor for personal and collective grief. Our burdens are many, but small individual actions do make a difference in lighting up the load.

Anrhydeddu, cofio, gwneud yn well, bod yn well

Honour, remember, do better, be better

Thanks to Arts Council Wales for their continued support and for helping me realise this newsletter through Creative Steps funding, diolch yn fawr.