Art Trip to a Bipolar Mind
I have a confession. I am an artist who is afraid of color. Not just in my art, but in the way I dress and decorate my home, and other places I haven’t discovered yet. It is an odd feeling to realize and admit that now, but that’s the first…
I don’t feel like making art, and that’s okay. I guess a few days ago I was all excited about it, when I was hypomanic,…
I am five days sober. My hypomania has calmed; I took a three hour nap today and didn’t do anything creative. But I did dig…
Here I am writing again. Years ago I set up a wordpress blog called “art at 3am” and I never posted anything to it until…
In an earlier post I said I would clean my desk on Monday in order to be able to make some art. I did it!…

I’m Alicia, the creator and author behind this blog. I’m an artist living with bipolar disorder. I write because it soothes my soul.