Internally - A4 oil pastel on 300gsm paper - sealed

Internally - A4 oil pastel on 300gsm paper - sealed with acrylic varnish - comes with removeable clear plastic mount frame

"Keeping your eyes open so wide, that the darkness all around you starts to connect with that darkness you've been feeling on your inside'

It's a line from a poem I wrote called 'for the rage' which is about the power of rage. I know it's not always constructive, and it's important to be able to regulate our negative emotions so that we don't get overwhelmed and cause harm to ourselves or others.

But I also truly believe that rage exists for a reason. And I think we should allow ourselves to feel it, and sometimes, to react to it. To let it out. To scream, shout, fight, dance, spiral, cry, wail.....I think there's a purpose to it. I think there's a also a purpose to learning to control it, and to navigating these feeligns and emotions.

But there is a darkness in the world, that gets misused, and could be directed - usefully - if we allow ourselves some time with it.

So this piece is about not closing my eyes to the darkness of life, but allowing myself to find some part of me that is dark too, and to sit with that, and to see what use it has.