Sasha Martin

“Was it cathartic to write?” This is one of the most common questions people ask about my memoir. It’s a tough question to answer. This week on substack I try to tackle all of it: memoir, pain, Frida Kahlo, and the myth of Catharsis. Link in bio.

1. My keyboard. Thinking about replacing it, but last night a friend gasped— “never!” After all my years of toiling, alone at my desk, I felt seen in the best way.

2. When I saw my memoir in print for the first time (with the most lovely notes from my editor and then 5-year old).

3. Substack details. See you over there!

I sometimes don’t know how to approach the blank page. But what if beginning isn’t so much about invention as it is about returning to something I already know?

I am a woman in the studio AND I am that little girl in a makeshift kitchen, wondering about my next meal. Both enter into making these tiny artist books bound with cinnamon and nutmeg.

I wrote about Beginnings this week.
You can read it at the link in my bio.

xxoo
Sasha