“The Old One” (colored pencils on paper) was born from my sense (while in tremendous pain) that migraines are endless, older than body or Earth. I was particularly captivated by the idea of a “brainstorm” as kin to nebulae. For this drawing, I was inspired by red giant SMSS J160540.18-144323.1

“Migraine — Visual Aura” (2023) (colored pencils on paper) is a live mapping of one of my left-hemisphere visual aura events (preceding migraine) over the course of about fifteen minutes. Pax50 loved the idea of captioning each strip with its correlating aura type and offers the following:

• Top Panel : onset – scintillating scotoma / fortification spectrum forming a small jagged ring.
• Middle Panel: “marching” phase – expanding C-shaped teichopsia with growing blind spot.
• Bottom Panel: late aura – visual-snow-like shimmer as the disturbance spreads across the visual field before the headache phase.

“Storm” (digital sketch with stylus) depicts the insidious spread of the aura across ones vision — peak aura, shortly before pain begins.