Feeling Without Naming

We’re expected to explain, to put feelings into words. But drawing refuses that pressure. A mark doesn’t wait for language — it arrives on its own terms.

On the page, states are carried directly: repetition builds, pressure thickens, a line falters and continues. These aren’t descriptions. They’re evidence. Drawing holds sensation in form without needing to label it.

This episode explores what happens when you let sensation remain as it is, without collapsing it into language too soon. Drawing becomes a way of honoring the immediacy of experience: precise, unfiltered, and intact.

In this episode:

• How sensation registers as mark
• Why refusing premature translation matters
• How drawing becomes a somatic archive

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Keep drawing,
Eileen

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