[ID: Digital vent art featuring one of the artist's sonas, Mani. Mani is a cinereous vulture headed man who wears a black trenchcoat. The rest of his body is human, as evident with his human hands. He is looking tired and depressed at the viewer as one hand is in a pocket whilst the other is holding a lit cigarette. Behind Mani is a greyscale simplistic decaying urban landscape with sketches of bones and mushrooms surrounding it. Beside Mani are the words. "Of course I love you. But it hurts to tell you so." End Id.]

First posted online on 21/12/23

I often have difficulty telling those close to me that I love them. I'm scared it makes inevitable goodbyes more painful.