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The Weight of Memory

This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.
This is an image of a blue watercolor skull painting that has glowing green eyes. The skull is a darker blue around the edges and gradually gets lighter and warmer around the eye sockets and nasal cavity, with a rusty orange mixing in the cooler colors. The is an overlay of three ink hummingbirds drawn in a scribbly fashion directly over the skull. The hummingbirds are connected with tangled ink linework that guides the eye around the piece.

Original Art by Emerald Barkley

The Weight of Memory is an original watercolor skull painting by Emerald Barkley about the quiet and suffocating nature of anxiety.

I often think about my anxiety in terms of birds and feathers – quick, fluttering, quietly suffocating. A thunderous whisper in my heart and in my throat, and an overlay to any experience.

A good trick that I have learned is to ground myself in the present moment with my senses. What am I seeing, smelling, feeling, tasting, hearing?

Even as I ground, two feet firmly present in the sense of now, there is a memory of a throat full of feathers.

 

The Weight of Memory is  9.5″ x 12″ original watercolor and ink painting on Arches hot-pressed paper.
This piece will ship unframed.

 

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Emerald Barkley

Emerald Barkley is a watercolor and mixed media artist from Northern California. Emerald uses a colorful palette and personal symbolism drawn from the natural world to create work about mindfulness, ego, and mental health. They enjoy hiking and peach cobbler. https://www.patreon.com/emeraldbarkley
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