OUR LAST TEXTS, ILLUSTRATED

The texts in black are Mom and the pink ones are Me.
The last one is from her pastor when he was trying to reach me to tell me she'd passed away earlier that morning.
The pictures are of some of her favorite things.

Here's Mud in Your Eye

I already borrowed from this old art project of mine (something from my early twenties) once, in a 2014 post about self portraiture -- it's just a bunch of self-portraits ("selfies," now) that I took when I was crying, which was something I did for years starting in my teens, mixed in with self-portraits my mom sent me of herself being sad, and captioned with lines from Dorothy Parker stories, in the vein of sad girl chic I'm always so fond of.   Here are 6 of my favorites, on this the week before the first anniversary of her death.  

Birthday Card Book

IN keeping with the more than usual focus on my mom, who passed away almost a year ago now,  here is a book she made me for my 14th birthday.