Add "A Familiar Place" to your home or office to serve as a reminder of your resilience. You know how to overcome those days because you have pulled yourself up dozens of times and you can do it again.

Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

Artist’s Statement About This Piece:

It feels like you are in a deep dark hole that you don’t even want to try to crawl out of… yet. Just let me lay here while the depression envelopes me like a warm blanket. It’s familiar, and in that I find comfort. I get content and slip deeper into this void. I know there is a ladder waiting to be lowered… when I’m ready.

Like the many levels of depression, the layers of paint peeking through suggest a deepness to this emotion. The positioning of the subject and texture-heavy upper portion of the painting gives the feeling of being in a deep hole or well. With “A Familiar Place,” I want to convey that depression is a common symptom of narcolepsy. Before my treatment for this rare disease, depression was prevalent in my life. It is something I still struggle with less frequently. Sadness and depression are part of the human experience, and they are normal. Having the knowledge and the right tools allows me to climb out much sooner. If this is familiar to you, just know: there is ALWAYS a ladder, and you can climb out when you, too, are ready.

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