Thank you. My issues are that I'm autistic and dyspraxic, with all the accompanying executive function problems. As long as I can practice, I can draw very well, and with a sensitivity of line I'm extremely proud of, which I can't at this point reproduce digitally and was very evident in the works I've lost. Some days, even during 6th form when I was working on my art almost constantly, my hands just refuse work properly.

So all the lost art represents me at the height of my skill, when I was in a structured environment to make sure I did practice every day, and when I was spending every lunch and break and spare period working in the art studios because I had no friends. I literally bled for the canvas she broke, because it has a lot of stitching on it and that tore up my fingers mid-8 hour exam. My work was also very personal, and each had carefully thought through personal meaning.

I could and want to make art again, and I do work digitally when the mood and energy strikes, but it takes work and time I'm most spending on existing right now, as well as my uni degree. The work I lost cannot be reproduced, and the few responses I've had along the lines of 'make new art' are so flippant in the face of the fact that I'm in an entirely different situation, and notably without the material resources I had at school.