100 songs of sadness
2023
100 songs of sadness No. 1 was selected as the featured artwork for No More Poetry Issue 7 2023, English - saddle stitched - eight pages + A3 Fine Art Print.
Coloured pencil on paper, 475 x 340 mm
100 songs of sadness No. 1 reimagines the Cocytus River from ancient Greek mythology as a labour-intensive drawing comprising the title and artist of Andrea’s favourite sad songs, drawn in bubble font and arranged in a fluid swirl shape. This drawing is a lamentation, a muffled wail of grief and aloneness – of pain and suffering swirling away, under the surface, out of view - held at bay by doom-scrolling and dissociative ceiling-staring – rearing its head in private therapy rooms or ugly crying while trying to brush your teeth in the shower.