This feels like I lost a part of my memory

I’ve been locked out of my iPad since the last week of February. I just got to restore it and had to reset my iPad in the process which means…

I lost yearssss of unfinished art, ideas, studies, patterns, poetry, literal images of visions and past digital artwork including commissions (raw files) 💔

I lost progress and files from other apps too but the art one brought a numbing-anxious feeling. For a while I thought is this a sign to finally quit art?

I had never thought to backup my procreate app🧍🏾‍♀️(actually it never occurred to me to make sure Procreate was on iCloud.) For someone that imagines quite a lot of scenarios, this one never crossed my mind.

I have been in denial since it got locked and hoped I’d recover my iPad to its last backed up state…I want to be optimistic and tell myself to embrace a “clean slate” (laughs in dark humor) but physically I feel like I got amnesia…like I lost a part of my memory.

I can remember glimpses of the contents and that’s about it…*sighs*

Oh and take this as your sign to backup your important data (including those that don’t seem important until they get lost)!

to all the “untitled” that the world will never see 🪽

🫀regretfully,
gbems

In memory of past creations that made it to the light of day, click here.