I used voice clips from my loved ones who live far away to draw their portraits

The gaps are due to my own auditory processing difficulties, trouble communicating over messages and phone calls, and also how flattened and limited it feels to communicate exclusively electronically

I also feel like I have a lot of trouble letting my loved ones know how much I care about them

Even if I say it, I feel like my voice is always flat and my words don’t carry the weight that I want them to.

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But I keep every voice message and video that I’m sent, and I play them back when I miss my friends.

Sometimes an act of emotional intimacy for me is as simple and somewhat seemingly “cold” as: “this contact saved a voice message from you”.

So... anyway it’s about that

It’s still a work in progress, as I have more loved ones that I’d like to message and draw