And then when you look back at a piece you always remember that moment in time.
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And what I like about art is that it takes you out of all that swarm of anxiety and puts you right in a moment in time. All these millions of worries that I could have now and that I had before I was sick … I had periods in my life where I would worry constantly over things that might happen, and I suddenly realized how much energy was going into that. It’s a moment of awareness that when I’m not drawing I’m trying to find all the time. It’s almost as if, no matter what’s going on, if I can get into a drawing and acknowledge the presence of an object in front of me, I’m just taking the time to see it and that’s it. The actual act of doing art is a meditation. JZ: There are lots of aspects that are healing. What is it about making art that feels healing to you? ML: Undefeated is about the intersection of healing and art. That’s helped me to stay strong in the hard times to a greater degree than I ever knew I could. Instead of letting the bad things beat me up, I’ve tried to focus on taking care of the good things.
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I really have learned how to nurture myself and my own spirit. But I think what I learned was how to balance-that it wasn’t all about surviving the hard times. It’s kind of interesting because it’s not that I didn’t know I could endure hardship because I certainly knew that I was tough enough to perform through rough circumstances. ML: When you say greater capacity you mean for the good things and for the challenges?
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Mainly I’ve learned that I have a much greater capacity than I previously thought, and for more things than I would have previously imagined.
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What do you think you’ve learned about yourself from being sick? ML: You’ve said that in the last year you feel like you’ve really come into yourself.