22 February 2015

If You're Reading This: Piece

Title: If You're Reading This, You're Too Late
Medium: Sketch Book - Ink

My thoughts behind this is fairly simple. Page one consists of a sign that plainly states: If you're reading this you're too late. The other side contains a warning.

I don't like top 40 music. I certainly don't like Drake either. The saying comes off his new album title. I read it in a way that applied to my life and turned it into a work that I can understand.

Anyway - It consists of two "letters" one called "The Beginning" and the other titled "The Aftermath". The idea is one is a cry for help and the other is a suicide note.
"The Aftermath" -  I've thought many times about killing myself and what I would write to my friends. I was never concerned with my family. I've never worked up the guts to follow through with any of it and I hope I never do. But words can only speak so much.
"The Beginning" - I am the worst at asking for help. Especially when all of this hit me so hard as a kid. I've hidden it well for over 10 years and I'm just now starting to help myself. How I don't know but one day I'll be okay. It's basically me going through my mind trying to figure out why and how I got this way. Why I let it hit me so hard. Why I feel like a failure. I was trying to explore my inner thoughts and honestly neither of these begin to scratch the surface. But it's a start.