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Vanessa Lee
@resetreality.bsky.social
Artist, shopresetreality.com
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Hi y’all! My name is Vanessa. I’m a first-gen, Chinese American multidisciplinary artist, small biz owner, librarian, and unapologetic nerd based in NYC. I paint birds, figures, and dancers in an effort to connect people to the expansiveness of the world.

Learn more at shopresetreality.com 💓
Also very quiet because… welp not much time for social media rn 🫠 craft fair season is here to kick my ass.
April 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Printing new illustrations for @renegadecraft.bsky.social coming up this weekend. shopresetreality.com also newly updated 💓
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Work in progress 💓
March 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Okay I added one thing from Timothy Synder’s book On Tyranny to this.
March 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
March 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Haven’t posted in a while - working in higher ed rn is a constant energy vampire when fascist clowns are in charge. Here’s an oldie of @emilymetalskin.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Next riso doodle features some French floral ornamental flourishes.
March 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Revisiting this sketch of @vilidian.bsky.social and leaning into Klimt ornate stuff 🥰
March 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Analog figure printing was so fun today! #riso #risoprinting #art
March 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Getting ready to riso print this tomorrow! Learning a new skill sure pushes creative boundaries 💓
March 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by Vanessa Lee
March 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of my favorite artists 💓
14x11in graphite :-)
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I’m so excited I GOT IN 😭😍 Save the date y’all! April 12/13 🥰
March 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Vanessa Lee
Yuri Kochiyama- “Remember Consciousness is power. Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.”

Letterpress notebook/journal with sewn stitched binding and recycled paper https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/inspiring-women/yuri-kochiyama-journal
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Reposted by Vanessa Lee
NEW PRINT

“America’s Sweetheart #2”. A portrait of Luigi Mangione, drawn from life, for The Verge

$20 from each sale goes to a cancer patient’s GoFundMe, because that’s the actual healthcare system of this Hunger Games country

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March 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Boredom doodles using Notability
March 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tooling around with my brand new iPad Pro today! Enjoy this little house finch sketch y’all
March 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
February 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Day 2 / 100
February 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I’m trying to get back / tend to my sketchy drawing roots by keeping and filling a sketchbook for the next 100 days. No pressure.
February 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
February 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hayley
Mixed media on paper
2022
February 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It may be more useful to view creativity through the lens of bittersweetness—of grappling simultaneously with darkness and light. It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better. From: Bittersweet, Susan Cain
February 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Experimenting again.
February 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
February 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM