the cycle is the balance

[01.22.2026]

It’s been a while.

In October I drew a total of eight whole sketches that were supposed to come together as a zine–Hallozine. I still haven’t put them together, or published them elsewhere. But strangely enough, since I started withholding sketches from publishing right away, the desperate desire to post and receive any sort of positive engagement has been declining.
It’s liberating, but also quite a bit lonely.

I’ve also come to terms with my episodic art production. Balance, I have always told myself, but I perpetually filter through cycles of working on one thing for a chunk of time, one to a few months. It’s been either M3, or some side projects that aren’t relevant to this blog, but I always come back to these monsters at some point. Maybe it is fine that I’m not constantly writing and drawing them, knowing it’s still always going to be the fire in the hearth that I return to.

Home again,
Koel out.