A Vessel For Your Grief

A Vessel For Your GriefAmanda is a lived experience, neurodiversity affirming community practitioner based in Meanjin Brisbane. She believes that bringing imagination and colour into everyday life is essential for wellbeing, recovery, and discovery. Immersion in creative practices helps Amanda make sense of her neurodivergent experience of the world as a sensory rich, often overwhelming, and sometimes anxiety provoking place. She values gentleness, compassion,

This fear made me interested in exploring my afterlife

Serpents Sun

Now living in Brisbane/Meanjin

words settle like sediment

I painted blue-faced honeyeaters feasting amid gentle rainfall to reflect my belief that joy and colour can still be found even in life’s darkest moments

The title is a Latin-derived term meaning ’no sleep’

an outlet that allows expression of experiences that cannot always be put into words

and finding beauty within ugliness

painting is both restorative and therapeutic - a quiet space for reflection that nurtures her wellbeing

This work reflects the deep spiritual heritage and timeless beauty rooted in these sacred sites

Whether working with oils on canvas

as all we can do is hope for a blissful transition to a magical place