Image description first:
Two-image photocollage on a black background showing a drawing on cardboard, and the back of the cardboard showing its from a yellow box of compost bags. The words on the label are in french "sans nom®️" (no name) and "sacs compostables pour cuisine" (food compost bags). The drawing is scattered pink or yellow heart-shaped lollipops pointing in different directions. The colours are smudges that are larger circles, outlined in thin white line. The sticks are white. The background is bare cardboard.
Ambidextrous:
The left side of each lollipop was drawn with my left hand, the right side with my right hand. The pink smudges, and white sticks and circles on the yellow ones were done with my left. The yellow smudges, and white sticks and circles on the pink ones were done with my right.
Why:
I can't always depend on my right hand to be able to draw without pain, and the reason isn't fixable. (More reasons have been discovered, but I'm waiting on a specialist appointment for full diagnosis/prognosis.) To allow myself to be able to still create, I've been trying to develop my left-handed dexterity.
I have the same congenital problem with my left hand as my right, but because I've used my right hand more, my left isn't as bad off as my right.
#JanuArty
Old card, #fresh eyes, avec nom nom nom
(today, archival ink & chalk pastel on artcycled cardboard from box for compost bags)
(ambidextrous drawing - more in ALT text)
#sketchy #scribbly #doodlydoo #alternativetitle-lollyheartlollyheart #drawntogether #pinklemonade #planetarynecessity