Elayna Alexandra

I don’t always do a very good job of taking care of myself. Of taking time off, indulging myself in little things. Partly it is money. I have always hated spending what little we have on myself, but partly it is time too. With school, work, and several projects always going I rarely find the [...]

Today I pray. In the darkness of the bathroom, both hands pressed firmly together.
I whisper words into the softness of the morning.
Begging, hoping, someone hears them.
Yesterday I threw a penny into the wishing well.
First clutching tightly to the little piece of copper.
My eyes squeezed closed, trying to envision dreams becoming reality.
Toss, it spirals and with [...]

This weekend in the never-ending state of unpacking and organizing I found a box of my old journals, mostly from my last couple years in high school. Many of the entries had me dieing laughing, the way I jumped from one love affliction to the next, the way I wrote, what was important. Then I happened upon a [...]

School is drawing near, when weekends are no longer for lounging but rather pounding keys on the keyboard, hunching over books, reading and absorbing at a rate that no human is really capable of. I feel a bit frantic about getting all the things I want to done before this starts again. In the process [...]

It is interesting how life can come to us in phases. How in one phase building up collections, buying things, hording feels comforting. Then life changes and you can see the in permanent nature of all of this stuff, and suddenly the things seem to be holding you back. I am at a stage where [...]

I have been slowly trying to reorganize things, cut down on some commitments as I gear up for school to start in a couple weeks. I want to have time do my best and really be present, while not over doing it. Yet as I go through this process I am immediately hit with the [...]

I have always believed that what books we like read and own, the movies and television shows we watch, the places we eat, the music we listen to tells so much about us as individuals. It creates a visual picture of us, sometimes revealing something very intimate about us, a hidden secret about something we [...]

Fall is my favorite time of year. Maybe it is because it is the brief pause that the world takes after the heat of summer, and before winter takes hold. Of course in Southern Arizona it is hard to even notice the passing of the seasons; one must attune yourself to the finer details and [...]

I never went to art school. I didn’t go because I didn’t believe I was worthy, I could never just go to school fulltime I have always needed to work, or try to work, and art school seemed financial impossible and practically foolish. Yet for me as an artist I always feel less then because [...]

I am embarking on a new trip, not a physical trip but rather a personal set of goals to focus on myself as an artist, to expand my portfolios and to hopefully in the process gain gallery representation, and illustration work. I have given myself a broad goal of being able to make a substantial [...]