Hello!
I'm El/Merle (they/he), a queer and disabled artist. I create vibrant watercolour and ink drawings that embrace conviviality, unabashedness, and intricacies 🪄✨
Recent
- November 25, 2024: Things that bring me joy
- November 21, 2024: Autism and sex
Relatable
I had never been to Elkhorn Slough before… I turned off Highway 1 South onto a road that tunneled through oak trees and rolling hills… I saw them: hundreds, maybe thousands of birds, congregating in the shallows and rising into the sky in giant glittering flocks… my wish to preserve this place was also a self-preservation instinct… insofar as I couldn’t feel truly at home in a solely human community. I withered without this contact; a life without other life didn’t seem worth living.
— How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
…But when you try to remove all fear, you also remove all spark.
— Chaos with a Spreadsheet by Ash Huang