Day fifty-six of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
I didn't allow myself enough space for this guy, and the tusks are a bit off. I managed to correct the left leg length (elephant's left leg; not what the viewer sees as left) in overdrawing the original sketch.
As has become my wont, I sketched the elephant slide with a 4H pencil. Most of the overdrawing I completed with an HB pencil. The shadowing in the elephant's interior was done with a 2B and a 4B pencil.
The source image for today's sketch was taken the day before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU took place. I took it after a morning spent wandering on the shingle beach at Dungeness.
I was slathered in sunscreen, and the cooling sea breeze deceived me into thinking I wasn't burning, though the mirrors in The Pilot Inn told me otherwise when we paused for lunch.
Foolishly, I went back out on the beach to continue taking photos after lunch without reapplying sunscreen.
That sunburn was horrific. It was the worst I had experienced in years. I've posted photos of it previously.
It was probably the worst sunburn I've experienced, even by comparison to one I acquired, wearing the same dress, at Southend-on-Sea in 2018.
Despite hurting like hell and my skin peeling for months, it came and went. I had ridiculous tan lines created by the straps on my dress and bags many months later, but now you'd never know.
However, the impact of Brexit on the UK will last far longer than the burns and then tan lines of my foolish decisions in 2016 and 2018.
At least once a week, it's confirmed to those who voted remain that this was the wrong decision.
And it was a decision driven by disinformation campaigns sponsored by the Leave campaign, UKIP and the Murdoch media.
The Murdoch media that's also responsible for so much of the political mayhem currently taking place in the US.
The same media responsible for the anti-vaccination rhetoric permeating almost every country globally.
The fact Rupert Murdoch is an Australian has never made me proud to also be an Australian. It has largely had the opposite effect.
Similarly, if I already had UK citizenship, Nigel Farage would make me ashamed to hold that citizenship.
The damage continuing to be done to the world by entitled white men will never be something I forget.
Whether purely political for the purposes of greed. Or reinforcing inequality by silencing diverse voices, embracing racism, endorsing white supremacism. And/or destroying the environment for the sake of their own personal wealth.
I will never forget.
In that way, my memory is very much like an elephant's.