The Fire Queen

I'm sorry, it's been way way too long. As I mentioned before I gained a lot of weight and it's made doing photos harder. I gave up for awhile and, honestly, had no purpose in life. I wasn't creating anything, I was just...existing.

 

I lost my sister in May and it changed me forever. I decided to do the best I can to live my life and start making positive changes. Lately I've been eating better and trying to take care of myself and as a result I've begun feeling better about myself.

 

It feels like the perfect time to jump back into creating pictures. I actually had something totally different planned that I was going to try today but last night Garry was watching youtube videos with me before bed and we watched one (that I CANNOT find) that featured a drawn picture of a dragon spewing fire and one of the townspeople had fire on their head. And it hit me...I NEED to do that.

 

I live in California where we're currently experiencing a big drought which has caused lots of fires this year. I wanted to create a picture to capture this moment in history as well.

 

So I braved the 100 degree heat and walked around my apartment complex collecting twigs and sticks. And then I spent another 2 hours hot gluing the sticks together in the shape of a crown.

 

Unfortunately, because I live in California I can't just run around setting twig crowns on fire (it would have been ideal) so I had to settle with finding stock images of fire and making them work. So kudos to Panopticon-Stock for their fire image I used.

 

I hope to keep creating...I want to do a picture every week. And I still have body image issues so I probably won't be featuring myself from the chest down anytime soon...but maybe soon I'll find confidence in myself and you'll begin to see more of me.

Done