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Josi
@csasylumart.bsky.social
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They/them/It

African American Artist • creator of Wizard Heights zine • 3D and 2D art• Attempting PhD in Sociology (possible burnout) • Trickster Deity • expect short bursts of intelligence only

https://linktr.ee/csasylum

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Books! Books! Books!

www.octaviasbookshelf.com
Octavia's Bookshelf
Pasadena's first independent bookstore highlighting BIPOC authors. Located at 1361 North Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA 91104.
www.octaviasbookshelf.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
At this point, im doing it cuz I promised myself I would. My family is with me, and I got support. Personally, I skeptical of organizations and institutions that spin the "not worth it" narrative. The benefits of education exist outside of economic factors. Just a shame those factors impede so many
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
It's only a clay sculpture with articulating joints and an Ocarina for a head. It's only a beautiful comentary on life and the beauty of death. It only art made to enrich rather than extract. but if i dont get praise for this, im just going to churn out black stewie griffin figures production style
Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture hides among the rosemary. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal. Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture sits in the yard. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal. Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture's mushroom infested arm. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal. Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture laying uncomfortably on a porch railing. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal.
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Interact with my goddamn art, I put work in this!! Fuck, quote post your own art too
Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal. Pictured: the pink toe beans of A clay chimera sculpture. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal. Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture lounging on a porch been, the artist peers at the viewer. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal. Pictured: A clay chimera sculpture lounges on a porch beem. The head of the sculpture is a playable ocarina. Head of bear and boar, a single twisted horn sprouts from her head. Her hands, once used to grasp at the sun, reach beyond the veil. Her emaciated form prematurely sprouts mushrooms hungry for her wane. And yet, she smiles and laughs at death, for her song is eternal.
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
I actually DONT want billionaires (and i guess trillionares) slaughtered in mass like the feral parasites they are. I want them to suffer. Suffer long lives of hellish back breaking torment. I want them to be broken, mind, body, and soul. And then i want them thrown out like trash and forgotten.
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Wipwop
October 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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cosmicamazon.bsky.social
Finally finished re-designing this cutie made for me on ArtFight!
Original design by nekopaw

#oc #characterdesign #ocreferencesheet #BRart #blackelf #blackfantasy #blackartist #originalcharacter
September 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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soengery.bsky.social
Let's go!
A drawing of several vat spawn including pit pit standing at a guillotine shouting who's next!
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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plutomaris.bsky.social
love, peace, and harmony?
oh very nice, very nice, very nice,
but maybe in the next world
a white haired young man weeps as he holds a dead tiger in his arms. they are both on fire which is a solid bright orange. trees glowing red loom in the background behind them
September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Wizard Heights vol.1 Pg.22
A wizard comic that depicts two wizards talking to each other: "When i picture "grace"," says wizard 1, " i picture you. In response, wizard 2 says, "Awww!" Then hocks a loogie, "haurkk, pitooo"
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I like these weirdos enough to give them their own post. I'm not sold on their body plan just yet, but I'll figure it out
A montage of concept sketches for an aquatic creature, which is somewhat gator-like in build. Long flexible fins, similar to a nudibranch's or ray's, extend along the sides of its body. Four sensory tendrils on the end of its snout - which has to be lifted like a tapir's trunk, to reveal the beak-like mouth - make it look like it has a cute mustache.
April 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Yeah, this is sadly a universal thing for Black attorneys
jazzreads.bsky.social JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28
So exhausting..
September 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Wizard Heights vol.2 pg.28
A wizard stands on a play stage wearing a large costume wizard head. They are speaking to another wizard who is standing in the seating area. The costumed wizard says, "i find this costume weird, and exploititive, and offensive (culturally^tm)" to which the standing wizard replies,"good!, use that, channel that feeling!"
September 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
Anything counts. Let’s get him to goal.
September 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Wizard Heights Tome pg. 21
A wizard stands with their back to the viewer. The wizard is wearing a denim jacked with studs and band patches. There is an arrow pointing to one of the patches labeling that patch specifically as a "velcro patch." The patch in its current orientation reads "talk to me" but, being velcro, it could presumably be re-oriented to say "leave me alone." The wizard is looking at the viewer over their shoulder, saying, "wut chu want?"
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Wizard Heights vol.1 pg.19
A wizard with a star on their hat sits slumped on a big sofa chair while watching tv. Text on the bottom of the image reads: occationally, star-side wizards feel that they are not as cool or mysterious as moon-side wizards
September 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Wizard Heights vol.2 pg.11
A wizard kneels before an open microphone, sundering their shirt open to reveal their hairy chest while reciting a poem. The poem goes, " it's not air or warter or bone, nor hair. Nothing in-between or between too inns vacancy. This is not born of complacency. Sheets crisp. Breath open, it motioned clouds rolling upward along a seam, so it seemed. Its real, no dream this...this thing. drawing out my tears its poison sting. Placing scaffolds along my back as it folds static sheets into my skin. I sing!
September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
pokemon, inspired by pre-colonial mexican and peruvian art
4 3D renders depicting the pokemon xatu, absol, natu, and houndour/houndoom in the style of indigineous mexican and peruvian art.
September 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
Marker, ink pen, colored pencil, and gel pen
9 x 12in
Marker drawing of a orange and red tiger who's body is shaped into a rectangle. The tiger has black, red, orange, and yellow stripes.
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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alariko.bsky.social
Valley view.
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
emily & bats
a stylized 3d portrait of a woman with glasses holding a small big-eared black cat in a sweater.
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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togfer.bsky.social
transition goals
September 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky
Laura Loomer I love watching communists get body slammed by ICE. Communist and Palestinian. Pick a struggle. @KatAbughazaleh
September 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
csasylumart.bsky.social
Oh, and this thing ended up being a prototype cus like a fool i tried to bike it to the kiln. It rattled apart in a catastrophic failure im still humbled and amazed by
csasylumart.bsky.social Josi @csasylumart.bsky.social · Feb 19
Everything had been going mostly smooth until I added everything to the torso. The og head snapped off, the knee broke, and today the arms, each in a slightly different way.
All clay: a set of hands that fit with a ball joint into a set of forearms that sit with a hinge into the upper arms which fit into a torso with a ball joint and a set of feet that fit with a hinge into the lower leg segments which fit into the upper leg segments with a hinge. The upper leg segments then fit into a pelvic segment, which then fits into the torso segment. A new head segment is set in the torso with a ball joint. The old head will still be fired as a planter or something All clay: a set of hands that fit with a ball joint into a set of forearms that sit with a hinge into the upper arms which fit into a torso with a ball joint and a set of feet that fit with a hinge into the lower leg segments which fit into the upper leg segments with a hinge, this image shows a repaired left knee. The upper leg segments then fit into a pelvic segment, which then fits into the torso segment. A new head segment is set in the torso with a ball joint. The old head will still be fired as a planter or something All clay: a set of hands that fit with a ball joint into a set of forearms that sit with a hinge into the upper arms which have broken off from the torso at the ball joint. The image also shows a set of feet that fit with a hinge into the lower leg segments which fit into the upper leg segments with a hinge. The upper leg segments then fit into a pelvic segment, which then fits into the torso segment. A new head segment is set in the torso with a ball joint. The old head will still be fired as a planter or something
September 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM