ARTWORK BY FAYE HARNEST

“These images began with pages from the unfinished novel I had to stop writing when I acquired a brain injury eight years ago. I erased, fragmented, distorted, and scattered text to represent the pain and difficulty of reading and writing that I now experience, destroying these pages which I once loved to make them into something new.”

Faye Harnest makes art that cares for people. Her soft sculptures, illustrations, and comics about brain injury, grief, mental health, and motherhood have exhibited in galleries such as Kunstraum, Uncool Artist, Studio Craftspring, and A.I.R Gallery (Brooklyn), and at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Artscape Youngplace, and Tangled Art + Disability Gallery (Toronto). Harnest is the winner of Solstice Magazine’s 2025 Graphic Literature Contest, and was a presenter at the 2025 Graphic Medicine Conference. She is a certified braille transcriber and a disability and mental health advocate. @fayeharnest