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Affirmations Series
Drawing from my clinical practice as a therapist, this series includes affirmations for the atypical, addressing concepts like disability, neurodivergence, and grief and loss.
Celebrate Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity is the fact that we all have different types of brains, and this is just one more expression of the natural diversity of the human species. The Neurodiversity Movement fights for the rights of neurodivergent people – people with different types of brains, including Autistic people and people with ADHD, developmental and/or learning disabilities, and other neurologically-based differences. It is a disability rights movement that centers lived experience as a form of expertise, saying “nothing about us, without us.”
This painting was created with watercolor paints, watercolor pencils, and acrylic paint.
Grief is the Garden
Made with watercolor pencil and paint, acrylic paint, and color pencil
This is available through Etsy as a 4.2 inch wide x 5.5 inch high folded, blank greeting card for only $3.99. Printed on recycled paper.
https://lamigdalia.etsy.com/listing/721005208
The phrase “grief is the garden” is mentioned in the book “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. She says she read it somewhere … this doesn’t come from a clear origin as far as I can tell, it’s just a phrase people have been taken with over the years and put into their writing and art.
This painting shows sweet red bell pepper plants, with leaves, flowers, against a blue sky background.
Grief is complex. It allows us to form insights about our experiences as organic living beings, like a fertile garden where the natural cycles of development pass each day and each season. Some plants die after only a single season. Some plants appear to die, but re-emerge after winter from the same root stock. Some plants live only a short time but they spread copious seeds while they live. Some plants can become food or useful tools for people and animals only after they have died. Plants that die break down, enrich the soil, and contribute to the next generation of life. A single flower can die, but the garden can live on intact.
Take Your Time, or Someone Else Will
This is a gelli monoprint made with acrylic paint, watercolor pencil and paint, color pencils, and nail polish featuring a skull illustration and the words “Take Your Time or Someone Else Will.”
This is available as a 4.2 inch wide x 5.5 inch tall matte postcard for only $3.49.
https://lamigdalia.etsy.com/listing/1438936416
Also available as a premium vinyl decal in two sizes:
Medium stickers – 2.75 inches wide x 3.54 inches tall ($4.99)
Large stickers – 4.15 inches wide x 5.31 inches tall ($8.99)
We live in a capitalist society in which most people must exchange their time (labor) for currency in order to survive, but for every nickel there is a five cent fine. This creates a culture of rushing, of constent productivity, in which people feel shame and guilt over resting. Healthy people have wished for a cold or flu infection just to have an excuse to step out of the fring. Our moments often belong to everyone else but ourselves.
For disabled people, this reminder can be particularly relevant. Disability often requires a person move on crip time. Disability studies scholar Alison Kafer says, “rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds.”
Support Neurotypical Disorder Awareness
This was made with watercolor paint & pencils, and color pencils.
Available as a 3 inch wide by 4 inch tall flexible magnet ($3.99):
https://lamigdalia.etsy.com/listing/1141402747
Classic deck of playing cards ($19.99):
https://lamigdalia.etsy.com/listing/1132529588
Premium vinyl decals in two sizes:
https://lamigdalia.etsy.com/listing/1124022408
Premium matte postcard:
This is a satirical piece that turns the tables on the way that Autistic people are often discussed by neurotypical people.
Fly
These are two paired acrylic gelli monoprints featuring duck feathers and the word “fly.”
Available as vinyl decals:
https://lamigdalia.etsy.com/listing/1511269812
Or decks of classic playing cards: