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wharved.bsky.social
Aidan Bad[motherf]inger
@wharved.bsky.social
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35/he/him/Chicago * perpetually naïve cynic * real-ass contemporary artist (mostly ballpoints) * MAGAts/nazis not allowed *
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*not a flying toy
Two dolls dangling off the back of a small cube van, fastened with festive zip ties in a way depicting classic artistic iconography representing brotherhood or something
August 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Holy crap, Quora comments are the greatest sometimes
August 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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#photo of man taking photo at the end of the world
August 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Just starting to combine 20th century metalwork with my aesthetic—took me long enough, jeez
July 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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bohemian urban photography, or bohurgraphy—my forte ever since I had a supercomputer in my pocket
July 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Letting the heart of the cards guide me as I listen to the Katamari Damacy soundtrack and draw underneath a tree down by the river. Good day off. Needed one of these.
July 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Ykseulb — .5mm #ballpoint & #watercolor #pen on 3x5” 130lb #archival #card

#experimental #abstractexpressionism #traditionalmedia #blackandblue #negativespace #contemporaryart #oneofone #meditation #drawing #bsky.art #selftaught #composition #concept #movement #penstrokes #minimalism #wabi-sabi
Ykseulb, 2025 — 0.5mm ballpoint pen (papermate inkjoy, black), watercolor brush pen (kuretake clean color real brush, Persian Blue) on 3x5” 130lb archival card
July 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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3x5” 0.5mm #ballpoint #pen (papermate inkjoy, black) on 130lb #archival #card

actually saw a spot where I could put my #signature, which feels good. Prolly gonna try doing that whenever I can.

#bsky.art #abstract #drawing #original #signed #series #oneofone #traditionalmedia #inkart #contemporary
July 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Papermate Inkjoy 0.5mm ballpoint on 3x5” 130lb card

gonna start popping out more of these 3x5”ers while using this clothcover book as the drawing surface. Ees nice.

#bsky.art #drawing #inkart #ballpoint #abstract #negativespace #unique #traditionalmedia #untitled
July 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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What a difference a flip makes. This here is “Hank of Dankness” from two competing viewpoints. He could be either, or neither. Unsure.

#inkart #ballpoint #pen #watercolor #acrylic #abstract #linedrawing #color #study #paper #spectral #selftaught #original #oneofone #bsky.art #traditionalmedia
“Hank of Dankness”, 2025 — .5mm ballpoint (papermate inkjoy, black), watercolor pen (Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush in dark brown, blue gray, light carmine, lemon yellow, light blue, wine red), acrylic marker (Sharpie, white) on 4x6” 100lb card stock “Hank of Dankness”, 2025 — .5mm ballpoint (papermate inkjoy, black), watercolor pen (Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush in dark brown, blue gray, light carmine, lemon yellow, light blue, wine red), acrylic marker (Sharpie, white) on 4x6” 100lb card stock — flip of first image, 180-degree difference (otherwise called upside-down)
June 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Added 3 #brushpens to the #ballpoint concoction from yesterday—would have done a bit more this session if Chairman Meow over here didn’t like my drawing substrate so much.

#inkart #contemporaryart #abstractexpressionism #pen #drawing #paper #cat #progress #WIP #bsky.art
papermate inkjoy 0.5mm ballpoint and Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush watercolor pens (dark brown, blue gray, light carmine) on 4x6” 100lb archival card—progression from drawing started on 6/21/25 Chaircat of the board
June 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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It felt good not to moan and bellyache all day about being treated like a pawn in the game of life, so here’s another drawing.

#inkart #traditionalmedia #ballpoint #pen #bsky.art #abstract #drawing #penonpaper #original #improvisation #linedrawing #negativespace #composition #saturation #minimalism
Papermate Inkjoy 0.5mm ballpoint (black) on 4x6” archival 100lb card — abstract composition that covers roughly 40% of the card’s surface, meant to evoke some kind of subject
June 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I’m sick of bitching and whining about evil motherfuckers, so here’s a drawing I did today.

#bsky.art #WIP #inkart #ballpoint #pen #traditionalmedia #penonpaper #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #contemporaryart #lineart #freehand #selftaught #movement #physicalmedia #wabi-sabi #abstract #ink
Papermate Inkjoy 0.5mm ballpoint (black) and Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Watercolor Pen (036 light blue, 090 gray) on 4x6” 100lb archival card — abstract composition, possibly still a work in progress—this depicts a single session’s worth of drawing, and the level of complexity is currently nothing to sneeze at. Drawing was composed at Café Mustache on Chicago’s North Side.
June 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Thought I’d try the Hercule Poirot mustache this time
June 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Firmly past 1k games played.

Rating keeps yoyoing up and down because I resign when I know I've lost (which generally drops the rating by 30 points).

I got up to around 1115, which felt nice.

Even better: 20 points per play is a sturdy stat, looks like I've crossed over into new territory.
June 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Random snapshots remind me that originality is easy enough when you’re not really saying anything.

I spent my time crafting 1.5k+ pieces of pointed literary merit for a reason.

The reason for such a blind endeavor is only recently beginning to reveal itself.

Yay poems!!

#poetry
A piece of aluminum foil with just the right amount of crinkles in it—such a skein reminds the spirit of the vast infinitude of the perceived cosmos.
May 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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I’m almost to 1k games played on #wordbiz! Afraid to jinx my averages/ratings today, but will be looking to play some more #scrabble soon enough. This is over at #isc.ro, by the way. Let’s go wordsss!!
stats for my scrabble profile on wordbiz, handle wharved
May 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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2.5x3.5” Bristol vellum card—maybe gonna call it “Side o’ Beef” due to its visceral quality… WIP? Unsure.

#inkart #ballpoint #pen #watercolor #paper #minimalist #negativespace #watercolor #carmine #bluegray #original #oneofone #tradingcard #artistcard #bsky.art #contemporaryart #idiom
Possibly called “Side o’ Beef” — 2.5”x3.5” 100lb archival card (Bristol smooth) with ballpoint pen (0.5mm papermate inkjoy, black) and Kuretake clean color real brush watercolor pens (carmine, blue gray) A minimalistic composition with ample negative space to provide a semblance of an art object contained within a frame of sorts—immediate visceral reaction reminds this observer of a Francis Bacon piece, with the stark quality and severe lines—resembles a big hunk of beef hanging and aging
May 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The pen is mightier than the sword.

I am energized now as a poet for the first time since I decided to “become a poet” 15 years ago.

Woody Guthrie gave me my voice.

The Haymarket Martyrs gave me my voice.

I have to use my voice somehow.

#poetry #poem #labor #workingclass #proletariat #unity
May 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Been playing with an old hare-brained scheme I called minimaxi, where I can somehow figure out the #wabi-sabi of the piece before I lay down too many lines.

I particularly like the last one (which is what prompted me to do this here post).

Also, enjoy a daffodil!

#inkart #photography #bsky.art
Assorted 3x5” drawings assorted in order of when they were made, starting from the top-left—solo ballpoint (0.5mm inkjoy) Final drawing of the 6-drawing session Daffodil against a blue-green wall!
May 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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May Day 2025, Chicago
May 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Spring
April 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Been having lots of chats with birds and flamingos lately—they keep telling me to turn the other cheek, but how many cheeks could a person possibly have?

#nature #love #photography #chicago
April 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I have a counter-strategy to unite the USA once and for all: MEBA

Let’s join together to MAKE ERNEST BORGNINE AGAIN! That guy was all right. Hard to find anyone who hated Ernie.

Some cloning technology company could sponsor it!

Anyone in cloning tech and/or celebrity DNA extraction hit me uppp!
MEBA: Make Ernest Borgnine Again — ballpoint pen on kraft memo pad with tiny quad rule
April 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The ironic thing is that I now use my offhand’s index finger as a pen-starter on a regular basis, so I should probably be more comfortable with having pigments on me fingies by now
April 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM