suzannealyse

A late dyslexia realization, the angry art that came out of it, and whether a formal diagnosis is even worth it this far in.

It's in every bio, every caption, every artist statement right now. Mine included, so I'm not throwing stones from anywhere clean. But I think we've worn it out. It's become the phrase you reach for when you want to sound like you have a process, and somewhere in all that reaching it stopped meaning anything. When I say it about my own work now it feels to me like background noise. Which bugs me, because the thing it's describing in my work is not a soft, pretty, feel-good thing at all. So...

https://www.instagram.com/suzannealyse/ I'll say it plainly: I am not good at Reels. Filming myself feels awkward. Editing feels like a chore. Every time I sit down to make one, I can think of ten other things I'd rather be doing — priming a canvas, hunting through a bin of old paper, anything that isn't staring at my own face on a screen. So why do I keep doing it? Because the alternative is worse. The alternative is art that sits in a closet, work nobody sees, a story that stays mine alone...