When i got my top surgery, we had to go to the next state over because there were no surgeons in mine that would do surgery on a trans person. We thus had to spend a long weekend in a hotel room. I do nooot actually remember that weekend, but my partner was with me and he took good care of me.
Apparently, there was one day when I really wanted a shower because i wanted to wash my hair, and i was in tears, so he went and asked the staff for a big trash-bag and rigged it into a cover so i could wash my hair without aggravating the surgical wounds or dressings.

Also, the version of the essays I drew this on was from an older printing/anthology (see paragraph below-- it's from when i first bought the book for class); this author has since transitioned and his name is Jack. (Also i bought the book used-- in order to get my accommodations, i had to purchase a copy of the book so that the school would turn one of theirs into a digital copy that could be read to me with TTS, thus I always bought used-- the highlighting's not mine)

This set of drawings are all from one project; they were made on reclaimed book pages, with writing pens i'd emptied and then refilled myself with acrylic ink of my own choosing. The books I chose were books that I encountered at particularly formative periods of my education. fun fact, reclaimed book pages are kinda small, and there's a limit to how small of a pen size you can fill with ink yourself. :C Also it's super messy. and kinda fun. you can tell which spots on the bed and chairs are mine from all the blue ink everywhere; it's how we tell which orientation to put some of the sheets RIP.

These images all relate to transition; they feature AON, and some of them also feature AOT taking care of AON through various parts of transition. These iamges were projected onto large panels of treated organza, drawn on with transluscent ink, and then had light projected through them in their final incarnation.

This is a kind of sketching I do that I call aggregative drawing; it's gestural and done in largely arbitrary colors, and they carry on until I have enough information to move to the next stage and/or I'm satisfied with how it looks. I do consider these finished work, of their own variety of artwork, as as prep work. Many drawings only ever exist in this stage.

Caard