Daphne Bennett

不知不覺已經是2022年! (非常cliché)

新的一年我沒有什麼大志，一年到尾每天也要湊仔，洗衫煮飯陪玩陪瞓，lego火車執完又執，到晚上兩個小朋友睡了我才開始catch up大學的功課，然後又嘗試早兩個小時起身繼續做功課，還有時間沖涼已很有ambition，所以我真的有心無力keep up with the social media game。在2021年下半年我完成了一本sketch journal，那是我很自豪的一件事。其他的，隨緣了。

這張畫是今年第一張在新的sketchbook畫起的畫，是一天早上我看到bertie 早起床還有半小時才要換衫上學的放空時間，看他的關於宇宙的書， 那一頁的標題是《The Life Cycle of Stars》。juno看著窗外太陽升起陽光照在小鎮的教堂外牆。太陽是恒星，相比起渺小的我們，和我們的悲喜，是永恒的，;教堂大概百年前在這裡，百年後仍屹立此地，但相對他們這個年紀，胖胖的臉龐，甚麼也笑大半天的幼稚氣，就像影射在教堂的日光，在各種家務和沉悶煩鎖事匆匆忙忙中，一轉身就不會再見了。

It’s 2022 before you know it! (What a cliché)

I am not able to have much new year resolutions, every day is the same: same old laundry, cooking, breastfeeding the 2-year-old, changing nappies, teaching my 8-year-old everyday, along side with my OU degree assignments after both kids gone to sleep (and before they get up ). I am happy if I manage to have a shower eberyday. In the 2nd half of 2021 I have managed to keep and finish a sketchbook journal. I am trying to start on my phone. I am not able to paint and update social media like many artists or blogger , I don’t see where it will lead to.

This is the first completed drawing in my sketchbook this year. One morning, Bertie got up early and there was still half an hour before he had to get change and he was just idly reading on his bed, the title on the page is “The Life Cycle of Stars”. Juno was looking out at the window. The sun was rising and shining on the church of our little town. The sun is a star. It lasts eternally compared to every thing. The church will be probably still standing where it is a hundred years later. But Bertie and Juno, their laughters and silliness, the churbiness of their cheeks, seem to be that fleeting morning sun over the humble little town we are living in. Yes, the day is always filled with never-ending housework and mundane but difficult tasks, but you’ll just miss what makes it endurable once you turn away and rush back to the grinder.