Transcript:
Page One:
Top text: “I would often sit on grass and pray for the sun to melt me.”
Panel 1: Bird’s eye view of flower girl sitting on grass and looking up at the sky.
Panel 2: The sun shining in the sky.
Panel 3: Flower girl with head melting onto shoulders. Top left text reads “like a candle.”
Middle Text: “Maybe then I would find peace.”
Panel 4: Flower girl standing on two giant hands that are cupped together. Text reads, “and if the earth wouldn’t swallow me whole, I figured.”
Panel 5: Large Hands are continued. Flower girl is now at the fingertips trying to hang on to the sun. Text reads, “I’d find someone who would.”
Page Two:
8 irregularly shaped panels dispersed throughout the page. The panels show:
-A person in fetal position on hardwood floor. The frame only shows the hands grasping the feet.
-Some park hills and landscapes.
-A clumsily drawn flower
-The face of person staring into the distance, with flowers in their long hair.
-More flowers
-A Little flower person cowering, looking up at larger person. Only their lower legs are visible.
-Naked flower girl, with loosely drawn flowers covering parts of them, and grasping a loosely drawn bird.
Text dispersed throughout the page reads “But as it turns out, others can’t make you whole. No one really told me that. There is so much more I could have been. And with hindsight, I could have been nicer to myself.”