During the winter of 2019, I spent time in and out of the emergency room with debilitating pain. My chronic illness had relapsed, leaving me weak and struggling to continue with my college classes.

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   The worst part was that, as a side effect of one of my medications, I developed hand tremors that worsened when I tried to use fine motor skills. As an artist, I felt like I was losing my ability to create the way I wanted to.

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   I started carrying around a small sketchbook to draw in whenever I needed a distraction. I used a ballpoint pen as a way to embrace the shaky quality my line art had taken on.

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   As the winter quarter came to an end, I compiled all my drawings into a zine

You can buy that zine here.