happy motherās day to the best @amanda.wyness_artist - you are a beacon of optimism and elegance and you inspire me more than you know š from early lessons on food nutrition in the aisles of the supermarket to juggling a hundred different skills well into retirement which makes one question what āretiringā even is if you keep vital by pursuing your passions on principle š«
D.i.Y.NESS W.i.P. š®šøš
Iāve always been a big fan of demos/concept development and seeing how my favourite artists and creators make their stuff from rudimentary ideas into fully formed masterworks. whenever someone tells me theyāre a designer or architect i go full fangirl, like i genuinely gush at individuals tryna deconstruct their surroundings and how that relates to building up self and community. so hot.
anyways this is a bit of a ramble now but yah check out some demos i made in development of @d.i.y.ness and follow the page for art/insights. Iām not a huge fan of commodifying everything i do so the general idea of it is to do creative stuff with/for others with a self-growth focus. yeehaw. I tagged some incredibly talented pals I worked on these lil pieces with so be sure to follow them too if you want some siq content to brighten up your feed āØ
āļø stay wavy š
š«gemini big eye bratzcoreš
//fashion archive\\
⢠𧶠style inspo from the incredible indelible
@tigerlily_twisted (their art is so vivid and psychedelic)
⢠š mua by the forever fergalicious @barenaked.hades
⢠šø pix by the goofy geezer @sk1neki
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āØBURNOUT āØ
been dealing with this a bit recently, especially as someone living with anxiety (shoutouts my humble king lexapro) and have been doing a fair amount of art-making in my spare time (will post stuff from recently thru @d.i.y.ness - stay tuned š®šø). while poetry isnāt something i do a lot these days, itās really rewarding to read old pieces i made as well as stuff by friends and peeps i look up to.
this is a poem I wrote last year for @signalarts as part of a group zine, and thought iād share - itās about anxiety, identity, queerness, gender and growth (like most of my work lol). itās aptly named āburnout (as above so below)ā, and is a concept piece about an astronaut leaving earth and everything they once knew behind. the images used are lilā distorted pics of food and random flashes of light. enjoy!
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this body isnāt real, itās fluid water
after an endless drought, order is found in flood. thereās one way out and itās covered in mud
to stay yet not belong anymore is to be a corner at borders. driving up the M31 to Eora, next stop andromeda. index on eureka, circling around the stars
if you zoom out far enough you can trace the skyline in the cut of a wound. all that remains is a world-weary planet burned out to the core ā hurry up, its time to go to the moon.
floating above, swept up in flights of wonder. empty space is only home to the void and transient thunder. lightning broke the bottle, now fragments in time drift asunder.
āa state of oblivionā
been stuck in a cycle of restlessness over the past few weeks while trying to finish an experimental album visualiser for prerock99 so hereās a trippy moodboard from old photos i took (and subsequently doodled over) of what itās about to keep me motivated and you folks at home entertained (hopefully!)
#ennui #limbo #flowers #poetry #experimental #trippy
āa badly coloured/drawn, eclectic field guide to a holed-up isolationā
some black and white snaps from pre-lockdown, jazzed up with illustrations and re-colouring.
been a bit all over the place with my mood, and havenāt posted in a while but artās been a welcome distraction. hope yāall are getting by alright š
#visualart #filmphotography #blackandwhite #isolation #spadaywiththegirls