a short story in one image

I challenged myself to a make a story in one image for my next block print. This bad boy was made in four different carvings on three erasers.

One of the erasers was carved more like a stamp: one broad side for three small carvings and a thin side for another small carving. In this case I was making ketchup.

This baby took two storyboards to make! I love this idea and want to find more “stories” to tell in one image using multiple erasers.

Look at this little gem of art I made. Adorbs.

wait. I need to take us on a side quest:

Oh my fucking goodness. I am a terrible speller and over my lifetime I have battled with embarrassment to the lengths of silencing my voice in writing and simplifying my vocabulary. As I am typing this my phone corrected my spelling from katchup to ketchup. In my storyboard for this most recent block print I spelled ketchup wrong the entire time.

Honestly, it is exhausting to constantly fear scrutiny, misunderstanding, or being passed over because of my life long struggle with the mechanics of writing. As I’ve come to my midlife and learning to find compassion for myself, I realize my struggles with spelling and grammar come from two main sources: access to education and a silent and undiagnosed learning disability.

The expectations of neurotypicality is so limiting. Those of us with spicy brains are over here making black katchup squirting onto neon pink hotdogs. Fuck yeah.

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    Ellis Thrift

    When I first saw that print of the ketchup and hotdog, it didn’t occur to me that it was that many block prints! I love this.

    I’m sorry that the world would have you believing anything other than supportive things about yourself, and that it’s stifled your voice at times. You have a voice and story to tell that the world needs to hear, keep going!

    Some people would argue that you, as a native English speaker, spelling words in the way you do, is perfectly legitimate and valid Anglish. Language is only, and has only ever been 100% organic and rooted in collective lived experience. The supposed “rules” are bullshit and imposed by stuffy gate keepers believing they somehow know better than the rest of us and want to lock the language at a point in time.

    Case and point: every time I’ve used the word “you” here would technically be incorrect according to long lost rules that held it as a word for plurality only – my using it to reference a single person would have been incorrect… Or how about those people claiming that irregardless isn’t a word, that rule was thrown out recently based on the higher rule: native English speakers hold authority over the language and their use of words is inherently valid English as a result.

    Now, stepping off my soap box, I’m going back to my hotdog smothered in katchup.

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