Heart & Hues

a journal of heart and creativity

  • Cosmic Whale: A Reflection

    Cosmic Whale: A Reflection

    I started this painting in the spring of 2023. That was about two years after my brother died, in February of 2021. I was still very much in the thick of grief and struggling with my mental health. At the time, I was painting constantly, exploring new mediums, learning, and trying to reconnect with my…

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  • La Catrina (Dia De Los Muertos)

    La Catrina (Dia De Los Muertos)

    The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a tradition with deep roots in Mexican culture, blending Indigenous symbolism with religious influences. One of its most striking elements is the celebration of death through skulls (calaveras) and skeleton imagery—especially La Catrina. Often depicted as the skeleton of a woman dressed in elaborate clothing,…

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  • Starlight Elegy

    Starlight Elegy

    For those we lost to pain and suffering, in all its forms.

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  • Salt & Shame

    Salt & Shame

    A personal story of surviving shame, reclaiming hope, and learning to meet myself with empathy.

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  • Anxiety

    Anxiety

    It’s been a bit of a rough week. Between my first class for graduate school (masters in counseling) and work blowing up, my anxiety has been through the roof. Anxiety manifests in strange ways for me. It seems to come in waves. I can manage to get sufficiently distracted by work or whatever but sometimes,…

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  • Parts of the Inner World – Art & Comics

    Parts of the Inner World – Art & Comics

    When I first started working with a therapist, I was struggling to explain my own inner dynamics. My feelings were in flux and I constantly felt like I was being split into several different perspectives and directions. I found out later, that there was a reason for this – I was suffering from dissociative identity…

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What is Heart & Hues?

This is a personal blog that serves as a place for me to write about my life as a neurodivergent artist tackling grief, trauma, and personal growth. Creating art has been the single most important coping mechanism for me as I’ve dealt with the intense grief of losing a loved one, discovering I have a dissociative disorder, and navigating the inevitable peaks and valleys of life. You’ll find many of my personal sketches and art on this site paired along with my musings and prose.

Jesi

Artist & Writer, Information Junkie, Grad Student

The Journey So far…

During the pandemic, I lost someone close to me and found myself feeling hopeless and suicidal. It took nearly three years for me to weather that storm and find my will to live again….

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