Hi Karly! I just wanted to say that as a 17yr old growing up in Asheville, that your art makes a huge huge impact!! My question would be what would you like to tell your 17yr old self? love you :)

Damn,,,,, idk.

I had some p shitty stuff happen to me when I was 17 that I never thought I’d be able to recover from.

I think I would tell myself that everyone who told me that “everything happens for a reason” were wrong.

Some shit is senseless and violent and chaotic for no reason.

BUT I would tell myself that experiencing that loss and pain and healing from it would eventually really inform who I was in adulthood, would help me relate to other people more easily, and would help me channel pain into something that would define my life and help me find my purpose.

I don’t think that shit happened when I was seventeen in order for me to discover that stuff about myself in some divine intervention…. cause I think that centers myself in a pretty selfish way. But…. in a way i’m thankful for the experience looking back.

I guess the short version of this is like: life is gonna be painful and sad sometimes and you’re gonna be like what the fuck is the point???? But then on the other side you’re gonna be thankful that you are capable of feeling a full spectrum of emotions and experiencing love, loss, happiness, sadness, anger, passion, kindness, selfishness, closeness and loneliness at different times in your life. As long as there’s a lil bit of everything that shit is what makes life fucking incredible.

lol idk !!!! damn honestly writing that out was therapeutic af for me… haha thanks for asking ur q