Artwork: “Stillness in Chaos” by Anyanwu David
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The red text flashed across my HUD, blurring the ash-dark walls behind it. I dismissed the notification as fast as I could; I didn’t need a reminder of everything I had wanted to forget recently.
Artwork: “Psych Ward Calla Lilies” by Janina Aza Karpinska
The puddle of water in the centre of Chi-Chi’s room had no source. We were weeks into the dry season. The roof wasn’t leaking and yet water pooled at the floor where my sister should have been sleeping. The bed was empty, sheets wrapped neatly and piled in a corner. The windows were open, curtains floating in the breeze.
Artwork: “This Is What Is In Her Mind” by Carol W. Berman
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There is a place where my mother sits: a big, dusty-white house by the Arabian Sea, in a suburb of Kuwait City we call Fintas. We moved here in 1976, when I was five, my sister four and my baby brother not yet one.
Blanket Gravity is art to struggle to.
This magazine is for those days, when you work to keep up your eyelids, when the face of a friend overwhelms. It is light and small enough to hold with your body squeezed between heavy blankets. Blanket Gravity is notes to your friend in crisis, to yourself in the words you needed. This is a place for you to sit, then set aside and come back to. Because your life is important—you are essential and worthy of care.
Blanket Gravity: Free online magazine with art and literature for people in mental health crisis, having a hard day or season, looking to feel connected with themselves or something outside themselves for a moment
Art by Trent Christensen