Natalie Heaman

December 2025 Hobonichi


December hobonichi pages! A busy month with a rush of work action before the holidays, then lots of family and friends fun. I think in 2026 I’ll actually fill the remaining pages of this book!

A watercolour blob with green, brown, and teal bleeding together. Concentric rings are drawn in ink on the watercolour.
A drawing in acrylic paint pens of a Time magazine. On the cover is SpongeBob Squarepants. The drawing is captioned “spotted while in line at the grocery store.”
An ink drawing of a person in a raincoat, walking two dogs, who are also wearing raincoats. They’re walking in the pouring rain, and the drawing is captioned “Feels like every day is like this… when will there be sunshine again?”
This page is filled with a handwritten quote from the book ‘Empire of AI’ by Karen Hao, and is about the Te Hiku project to preserve the Maori language. The quote reads: “Data is the last frontier of colonization.” Mahelona told me. “The empires of old seized the land from Indigenous communities and then forced them to buy it back with new restrictive terms and services if they wanted to regain ownership. AI is just a land grab all over again. Big tech likes to collect your data, more or less for free, to build whatever they want, to whatever their end game is, and turn around and sell it back to you as a service. “
Bubble letters are drawn over a sun with radiating rays of sunlight on a blue sky. They read: “Experienced 20!! Minutes of sunshine today!!”
An acrylic paint pen drawing of a lake and the surrounding forest. The drawing is impressionistic, make with many small, short marks.
An alcohol ink pen drawing of a beach on a windy day, with white caps on the water.
An ink drawing of a plant in a pot with twisting curved branches. Each branch ends with a purple circle or clusters of circles, like fruit. It isn’t a drawing on any particular plant species, and is mean to be stylized and somewhat geometric.
An ink drawing of a person waving and saying “Goodbye 2025”, with swirling lines around the speech bubble.

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