Starving Artist Ink.

The internet is such a strange and beautiful place-where people who would have never met can connect and talk, share and learn… (Obviously, I'm all for it; bringing my soul mate and I together, on one continent, to touch our hands to each others faces and say 'I know you!' to listen to each other's heart beat and say 'you sing the same rhythm as me', to laugh and cry, holding each other and saying hellos and goodbyes…we would have never known of each others love…)

And now it has another meaning for me. A space for me to befriend, where we can get all passionate and creative, open and honest. I've met so many wonderful women through this space… We've come together as a community and laughed, joked, and shared. We've embraced in our words and bonded through our art. We've become sisters…

Sisterhood… I used to watch my friends with their sisters. Their bond. I shared the same 'awe' with them-looking up to their big sister… All the make-up, the gossip, the bra's and the boys. They were women to us… Flinging their hair, curling their eyelashes, painting their toes while talking on the phone. Reading Cosmo and Seventeen, and sipping cans of Diet Coke…  I realise now, that they were just self conscious girls-looking for another strong woman to idolise, to look up to-at all of their make-up and stories, heels and lives…

And so, since I never had that sister in my life, my friends have had to jump on board to all the love that I would give to a sister. We might not share the same blood, but our souls all sing in harmony.

e.darcy

As I was saying, the internet is a strange and beautiful place-a place where I have found some new sisters along the way. Sisters with strength and passion. With words that move you, and protect you. Sisters that give guidance with a warm voice… Some of my internet sisters and I get to take our hands off the keyboard, and pick up the pen-scribbling messages of love and inspiration to one another… I find myself on walks thinking about them-how beautifully they would capture this scene, what words they would use to describe it…I feel them walk with me side by side.   So even with the distance, even with the ocean separating our inseperable souls-we have a bond. My sister friends, who I look up to through all of their photos and paint, words and wisdom. Their confidence radiates and they empower women…

<3 to my sisters.