This was so exciting, as a certified Anna-Laura-head, to watch and experience! I have always loved art, and felt compelled to create art, but very rarely sit down and actively engage. Finding the time and energy to make art has worked wonders for me, mentally.

I can partly attribute this to discovering Anna-Laura's art, and seeing how it can make so many people feel so many things. It's funny how we are all so freakishly similar, I find it so cute -- Anna's piece about the dust fairies illuminated by sunshine seems so niche, yet everyone knows! The power of art in connecting people is so special -- it's so important to remember that we are not experiencing life alone.

This piece is kind of me placing my anxiety and fear about the future, and what I "should" be doing, onto the page and letting the watercolour and the cutie character run away with this feeling and turn it into something helpful. I don't "have" to be doing anything except playing, eating with friends, and resting. That goes for you too! I don't see myself as a very articulate person, so being able to feel this feeling, and express it through art is so deeply satisfying.

How special to know that everybody within this space is united by the simple act of Anna-Laura creating and expressing herself :-)

All together: THANK YOU ANNA-LAURA!!!! <3 <3 <3

Sophie Maher

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