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Two vultures are perched atop a branch running horizontally across the page, above the author note: "A Note From the Creator This visual diary was produced during a very busy year. It starts in January 2021, when we were still very much in that strange first year of the pandemic. 6 months earlier I had taken part in SAW’s Graphic Novel Intensive. It was such a strange time and our little group really leaned into each other as we made comics and tried to make sense of it all. Time felt more expansive and there was room to create. But that feeling didn’t last long as I made the decision to finish a degree I had started years prior. My interest in regenerative agriculture was the impetus for my leap back into university life. But the juggle of school, job and family slammed me back into a hurried existence that left little time for art. On a whim, I started drawing daily pictures with quick, dry accounts of the day. I guess the idea was to help me remember the year as well as force myself to work on my weak drawing skills. They were never intended to be in the public eye and would have been approached quite differently had…" "…I known they might. It was my friends at SAW that saw some value in these pages and prompted their publication. I do believe their merit lies in the evidence that even small attempts at something over time amount to something much bigger. While this diary is far from being considered in the realm of comics, the act of drawing the steadfast march of life over the course of time could probably be considered sequential art. There was so much more life happening beyond these pages, but these little sketches helped stave the ever present artists’ guilt to create. I even hated doing them most days but it felt important that I was doing something. - Kim Laurenti, May 2023"
Two vultures are perched atop a branch running horizontally across the page, above the author note: "A Note From the Creator This visual diary was produced during a very busy year. It starts in January 2021, when we were still very much in that strange first year of the pandemic. 6 months earlier I had taken part in SAW’s Graphic Novel Intensive. It was such a strange time and our little group really leaned into each other as we made comics and tried to make sense of it all. Time felt more expansive and there was room to create. But that feeling didn’t last long as I made the decision to finish a degree I had started years prior. My interest in regenerative agriculture was the impetus for my leap back into university life. But the juggle of school, job and family slammed me back into a hurried existence that left little time for art. On a whim, I started drawing daily pictures with quick, dry accounts of the day. I guess the idea was to help me remember the year as well as force myself to work on my weak drawing skills. They were never intended to be in the public eye and would have been approached quite differently had…" "…I known they might. It was my friends at SAW that saw some value in these pages and prompted their publication. I do believe their merit lies in the evidence that even small attempts at something over time amount to something much bigger. While this diary is far from being considered in the realm of comics, the act of drawing the steadfast march of life over the course of time could probably be considered sequential art. There was so much more life happening beyond these pages, but these little sketches helped stave the ever present artists’ guilt to create. I even hated doing them most days but it felt important that I was doing something. - Kim Laurenti, May 2023"
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