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pnw artist, cat lady, forest nymph, activist for a better future, always learning and growing.
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the world may be on fire, but I'm still an artist, and art is one of the things that brings me back to myself when everything threatens to swallow me up.

today I organized my supplies a bit, so I can inventory which colors I need to replenish, and to a picture of all my 2025 work.

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all the abstract paintings I painted in January 2025, whether finished, or still needing linework touchups. 17 total. all the abstract paintings I painted in February 2025, whether finished, or still needing a border or linework touchups. 14 total. only missing the one I'm working on tonight.
February 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-co...
February 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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PHD Psychologist Dr. Steven Hassan, who studies cults and how to extricate people from cults. BITE model of authoritarian control. (Behavior control, Information Control, Thought Control, Emotional Control). I think we see a lot of the Information and Thought control in MAGA groups.
February 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Hieroglyphic Stairway, 2003, by Drew Dellinger.
Hieroglyphic Stairway by Drew Dellinger it's 3:23 in the morning and I'm awake because my great great grandchildren won't let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the planet was plundered? what did you do when the earth was unraveling? surely you did something when the seasons started failing? as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying? did you fill the streets with protest when democracy was stolen? what did you do once you knew? I'm riding home on the Colma train I've got the voice of the milky way in my dreams I have teams of scientists feeding me data daily and pleading I immediately turn it into poetry I want just this consciousness reached by people in range of secret frequencies contained in my speech I am the desirous earth equidistant to the underworld and the flesh of the stars I am everything already lost the moment the universe turns transparent and all the light shoots through the cosmos I use words to instigate silence I'm a hieroglyphic stairway in a buried Mayan city suddenly exposed by a hurricane a satellite circling earth finding dinosaur bones in the Gobi desert I am telescopes that see back in time I am the precession of the equinoxes, the magnetism of the spiraling sea I'm riding home on the Colma train with the voice of the milky way in my dreams I am myths where violets blossom from blood like dying and rising gods I'm the boundary of time soul encountering soul and tongues of fire it's 3:23 in the morning and I can't sleep because my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the earth was unraveling? I want just this consciousness reached by people in range of secret frequencies contained in my speech ©2003
February 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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from u/TamraLinn on reddit, r/50501
map of the united states, with a picture from each state's protest on Feb 5, 2025. Title reads "This is what hope looks like: 50 states, 50 capitols, One Protest."
February 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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quote from reddit poser miseleigh on Feb 4, 2025, in a discussion regarding taking back the US flag from fascists. "We ALL have equal, inalienable rights. We are a melting pot, and we welcome everyone. Time to remove the blindfolds from Justice, so she can see the scales have been weighted for far too long, and let freedom ring again. Fascists have co-opted one symbol, but we have others, and we can take that one back."
February 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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sharing this chart from the codependency healing youtuber @marshallburtcher.bsky.social for our silent "leaders" to help them heal from their intense codependence. maybe they can break free and do what they were elected to do, honor their oaths, and stop cowering under the weight of fascism.
There are two commitments that create lasting freedom and healing. They help you construct new, healthy relating habits and protect you from relapsing into unhealthy relationships and habits. COMMITMENT ONE: Honesty with yourself and others. This involves being able and willing to acknowledge what you feel, what you are experiencing, and seeing reality. This involves the end of fantasy making and hopeful thinking. This means acknowledging the pain you’re feeling, their abusive and neglectful behavior, your ignoring of the patterns in the relationship. This means ending fantasies of changing them, of their potential, and it means being honest with what is actually happening. COMMITMENT TWO: Loyalty to your well-being first. Relationships do not require the loss of your Self, your well-being, your sanity. The real work in healthy relationships is building connection and understanding. This starts with loyalty to yourself. Put your well-being first, choose according to what adds to your well-being, and you’ll find yourself more and more free from codependent surviving.
February 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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collected some of my favorite works from 2024. really love the style im growing into.

#art #abstractart
several abstract paintings of various size and color. some have rounded linework, others have sharp lines or combine the two. bright color palettes fill the paintings as the eye moves along flowing geometric shapes that combine spontaneity with structure.
January 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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the last two paintings I've done just got finished up tonight. my fingers are so sore so it's time for the hand massager (an artist's best friend lol) and then bed.

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two abstract paintings in bright colors with silver borders. the bottom one has black linework and the top is lined in blue and bright green.
December 30, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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she looks so much like my baby boy
a grey tabby cat sits on blankets looking curious
December 28, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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quote from spiritfiend on reddit: "The problem with oligarchies is that many rich plutocrats think their wealth is a measure of their intelligence when it is actually a measure for ruthlessness. Musk has been able to buy his way out of bad decisions, so he doesn't know his ideas are bad."
December 21, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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mixing up the elements of my linework recently has been fun. this is what tonight's piece looks like.
abstract painting, bordered in pink. sharp lines in purple turn into rounded lines in gold. shades of blues and greens fill out the body of the piece.
December 13, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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after trying out sharp linework, the obvious next step was trying to combine sharp with rounded. here's what I came up with. felt very apt for the mars-venus opposition this week.
a small abstract painting with a larger one below it. sharp lines intersect over rounded lines, with several shades of blue, green, pink, and purple inside. the borders are in black. rounded linework is in one color, while sharp linework is in another.
December 12, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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December 10, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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these are the piles of the finished, and still needing touched up, paintings that I've made since moving into this space in May. I really need a real art space lol. making art in bed late at night this is what you get. one day I'll have a real studio space. 😍😊✨
piles of colorful abstract paintings stacked on top of each other haphazardly.
December 6, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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here's the first sharp-lined one that I made. not sure if this was after I finished touchups or not. probably not. there was another sharp one I made, but I can't show that one yet, as it is a gift. I don't think the person is on bsky, or knows that I am, but you never know.
abstract painting with teal linework and fluorescent orange border. pink, apple green, dark blue, sky blue, and purple fill the center shapes. linework is sharp lines instead of this artists usual rounded lines.
December 6, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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finished the painting from the other night. wondered what sharp lines would look like instead of rounded ones, and have since made a couple paintings in that vein. they're pretty neat. fixed a painting I was not liking, by making the white outline purple. hands always sore. night life of an artist.
abstract painting. outlined in teal, with a purple border. apple green, hot pink, seafoam, and sky blue are within shapes in the center.
December 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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hands are sore, and for once I'm listening to my body and pausing the work instead of pushing through. I like how playful it looks so far!
art piece partially finished, outlined in teal. shapes are filled with blue, pink, seafoam, and green. some shapes are yet to be colored in.
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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tonight's work in progress
a white canvas with teal linework ribboning throughout.
December 3, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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small space yule tree ready for the season.
a painted side table with a spirographic yarn sculpture contained in a hula hoop. standing in front of it is a small artificial yule tree with colorful lights. a painting of a goat laden with gifts in the forest sits in front of the tree, and a straw yule goat sits in the branches. as a topper, a red cardinal perches at the highest branches.
November 30, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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finishing this up tonight
an abstract painting. linework in gold, edged in black. colors inside are teal, blue, pink, and light seafoam colors.
November 27, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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another clip from a newspaper from 1876. it was written for the centennial.
November 21, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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from a talk in an 1876 newspaper clipping I read today
November 21, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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November 20, 2024 at 4:37 AM