It kinda figures that in a week when I’ve experienced some of my best emotional highs, I’d also have my first episode/freakout in months. And then have another. And another. The phrase that keeps coming to mind is MENTAL ILLNESS HOT STREAK. I’m painting some funny faces about it though and everything’s cool for now.

I don’t ever reach out to anyone when I’m going through something tough but I’m lucky enough to have friends that are consistently wonderful enough to me that it doesn’t matter. Friends that are aware of and friends that are completely oblivious to what I’m going through both hit me up and help balance me out, whether they realize they’re doing it or not. I’m very lucky.

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you may have already seen a photograph with a half-finished new painting of mine in the background. In either case, I finished it on Tuesday night and I’ll be posting a photo sometime after I get back to Jacksonville.

I’m in Sarasota right now for the premiere of No Real Than You Are. I’m not gonna be doing a pop-up show down here after all, but if you wanna get some prints off me while I’m in the area, hit me up tomorrow or Monday. I gotta get back to Jacksonville by Wednesday ’cause I’m doing OneSpark after all. (Not as a creator, I’ll just be set up at Burrito Gallery with a table of prints outside and some original paintings hanging on the wall inside).

And hopefully, by then, I’ll have this newest painting finished too!

Here’s a screenshot of one of two shirts (both of which are adaptations of existing art of mine) that I designed for Rational Anthem’s next tour.

The author of this article is looking for quotes from people who have been inspired or helped in some way by my art. I have a ton of emails but I don’t want to share those without permission so if anyone wants to give a quote for this thing, send it to janetevelynharper@gmail.com

Smokin’ cigarettes and not wearing a shirt at Memorial Park.

And now that Mike Kelly is sketching me, my career as a topless model is really taking off.

I can’t wait to work on my painting today!

YOU’D THINK THIS SHIT WOULD GET OLD.

Oh well. Life’s cool.

I’m sick again. Started Thursday morning. Lacking ability to form coherent thoughts or energy/will to try and put together a real update. In the midst of this snotty haze, I have started two new paintings though so – hopefully – I’ll have some wacky fever-fueled nonsense to share by the time I come out of it.

In the meantime, I could post more updates like Thursday’s but I’m not sure I’ve even got the capacity to discern quality from garbage right now so…

We’ll see…

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Here’s a note that I dropped in with a package in October. It was written on the back of a small print that was on the wrong kind of paper stock.