Existential Complex
@amberthebird.bsky.social
I make happy art for happy people
I started my new job this week and I love it a lot a lot 😭
September 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I started my new job this week and I love it a lot a lot 😭
I finally finished the most recent piece I’ve been working on: “What Percentage of My Life Has Been Spent Criticizing My Appearance in the Mirror?” This is a 5-color screenprint and I cried a lot while working on it ❤️🩹
August 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I finally finished the most recent piece I’ve been working on: “What Percentage of My Life Has Been Spent Criticizing My Appearance in the Mirror?” This is a 5-color screenprint and I cried a lot while working on it ❤️🩹
Feral. Yearning. Pining. Ripping my hair out. Desiring. Longing.
July 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Feral. Yearning. Pining. Ripping my hair out. Desiring. Longing.
Gold leaf is so magical
July 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Gold leaf is so magical
Inside me there are two wolves:
🐺 One doesn't want to be perceived
🐶 The other one desperately wishes to be complimented
🐺 One doesn't want to be perceived
🐶 The other one desperately wishes to be complimented
July 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Inside me there are two wolves:
🐺 One doesn't want to be perceived
🐶 The other one desperately wishes to be complimented
🐺 One doesn't want to be perceived
🐶 The other one desperately wishes to be complimented
Progress on Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t
July 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Progress on Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t
We don’t celebrate the fourth around these parts 🦋 currently listening to Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
July 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We don’t celebrate the fourth around these parts 🦋 currently listening to Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
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The worst part about having an unsolicited crush is how hard it is to NOT text them or try to talk to them constantly. Go away. I don’t want these feelings 😭
June 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The worst part about having an unsolicited crush is how hard it is to NOT text them or try to talk to them constantly. Go away. I don’t want these feelings 😭
Rediscovered this video of me from when I was 23 & I would give anything to be able to tell this version of myself just how proud I am of her. Tell her how smart, brave, capable, & beautiful she was. How she was worthy of love & affection - to try to give herself permission to love herself.
June 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Rediscovered this video of me from when I was 23 & I would give anything to be able to tell this version of myself just how proud I am of her. Tell her how smart, brave, capable, & beautiful she was. How she was worthy of love & affection - to try to give herself permission to love herself.
“Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t” work in progress
June 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t” work in progress
[You Hear Yes by Destroy Boys plays softly in the distance]
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
[You Hear Yes by Destroy Boys plays softly in the distance]
80085 // an 8 color screen print on 8.5” x 11” paper (Sno-Cone color from French Paper) made for a Robot themed print exchange
May 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
80085 // an 8 color screen print on 8.5” x 11” paper (Sno-Cone color from French Paper) made for a Robot themed print exchange
Working my way through my second 8-color screenprint design and I’m loving how it looks so far
May 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Working my way through my second 8-color screenprint design and I’m loving how it looks so far
I don’t know who or what I am. All I know is that I don’t feel like a real artist, whatever that is.
May 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who or what I am. All I know is that I don’t feel like a real artist, whatever that is.
I feel like I am constantly letting down my inner child and I realize it’s a good thing that I never had children.
May 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I feel like I am constantly letting down my inner child and I realize it’s a good thing that I never had children.
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The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
May 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
“You Are a Piece of Shit” // stoneware // from my series Brain Exhibit inspired by my looping and obsessive negative cognitive thoughts
May 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“You Are a Piece of Shit” // stoneware // from my series Brain Exhibit inspired by my looping and obsessive negative cognitive thoughts
Trying to be sneaky while designing a coloring sheet for my coworker’s birthday while said coworker is also working 🥸
May 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trying to be sneaky while designing a coloring sheet for my coworker’s birthday while said coworker is also working 🥸
What’s wrong, babe? You’ve barely touched your my butt
May 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What’s wrong, babe? You’ve barely touched your my butt
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
May 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Life after a depressive episode is all about cleaning up the messes you made, facing the reality of your actions, and apologizing. It’s accountability and it makes it even harder to crawl out of that hole. But it has to be done.
May 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Life after a depressive episode is all about cleaning up the messes you made, facing the reality of your actions, and apologizing. It’s accountability and it makes it even harder to crawl out of that hole. But it has to be done.
A very depressed lady with her emotional support super senior cat
May 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A very depressed lady with her emotional support super senior cat
I have bipolar-ii disorder and I’m a multi media artist. My work is centered around mental illness in the hopes of reminding people that they’re not alone in their suffering.
May 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I have bipolar-ii disorder and I’m a multi media artist. My work is centered around mental illness in the hopes of reminding people that they’re not alone in their suffering.
I’ve had a few people reach out to me via text and one even email me because they couldn’t find my Instagram. I legitimately didn’t think that anybody would notice if I disappeared.
May 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve had a few people reach out to me via text and one even email me because they couldn’t find my Instagram. I legitimately didn’t think that anybody would notice if I disappeared.