05/08/2025
Hi! I thought I would give a life update as to why I haven't been posting in a while.
A little over a year ago, I had a bad migraine start that just never went away. A few days after that started, I started hearing constant ringing and saw visual static and flashing all of the time, whether my eyes were open or closed. There are more symptoms I won't bother listing, but in short, I developed a condition called visual snow syndrome (VSS), which has no understood cause or cure.
After many months and a lot of medications, my headache is better than it was, but still crippling a lot of the time.
As you can imagine, this makes my life as an artist very difficult. I'm trying to get back into my art, but I am finding it difficult. I hope to slowly work myself back into it as I figure out how to work around my condition.
I hope to start posting more in the future!
Ps. If you'd like to familiarize yourself with VSS, the Visual Snow Institute is a wonderful resource.
All the best,
Mike
