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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

my greatest obstacle

so, I'm reading Damon knights creating short fiction book, the one recommended by Harlan Ellison asking the question , do I want to write ... I don't actually want to write short stories now, but I do want to draw short comics, which requires writing to be done well. Partly, though, this is because its slow and difficult to write here , even with type writer. Perhaps if I abandoned drawing for a while, I could leave my typewriter permanently set up, though. Anyway, asking further questions of myself , why bother making a comic, or drawing, etc ? I don't feel I've had any good ideas lately and I'm struggling to sketch again after a long period of mainly painting . So, I suppose the answer to that question is because, if I don't spend some time creating something , its bad for my mental health. Being as I'm extremely prone to nihilism and a despair/hedonism cycle motivated by a profound sense of hollowness which , is probably a disease of intellect, as arrogant as that is to come out and say. Basically, its for my own good and to give me a ( false ) sense of purpose . Suspending my disbelief that that false sense of purpose has any meaning beyond being for yuks is probably my greatest obstacle to being a functional creative .

Elisa Carlson