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Willa J.
@willaj.bsky.social
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Artist, graphic designer, web developer, writer. WillaJ.com
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Biological Mechanism, 2025, oil on canvas, 20"x26"

#oilpainting #abstractpainting #oiloncanvas
Oil painting with red and green shapes on an aqua-blue and black background, with black strokes and green egg-like shape
August 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Recent poem.
#PaintedBrideQuarterly #poem #poetry
Willa Jarnagin: Saturday Morning - Painted Bride Quarterly
Saturday Morning  Cereal box apocalypse           warns the cabinet TV My age is over The puff has drained from my sleeves Across the fiery sky a plastic toy pierces the doom           its orange swas...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Sea Rise, 2022. Graphite drawing incorporated into an animation with "Pity" by William Blake (public domain, The Met) and "The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn," by William Blake (public domain, Cleveland Museum of Art).
#art #drawing #animatedart #digitalart #WilliamBlake #climateart
April 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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"Forest Moon," digital painting
#art #digitalart #abstractpainting #artistsofbluesky #NotAI #contemporaryart #painting
Abstract painting with a bright turquoise circle; pink, red, and black strokes; and leafy shapes on a green background.
March 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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"Belief," graphite drawing.
#art #drawing #graphite #artistsofbluesky #surreal #WilliamBlake #dreamsymbols #individuation
Pencil drawing of a face resting on a surface with a small ladder leaning up against the jaw, a capital letter I standing next to it, and a medical cross on the forehead. The eyes are partially erased.
March 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Today is #ParrotCrisis Awareness Day. Shelters are overwhelmed. Parrots are wild animals who thrive in flocks, not cages. Practices such as hand-rearing and wing-clipping contribute to their suffering. www.allianceforparrots.org/parrot-crisis
#NoCageIsBigEnough #adoptdontshop #parrots #animalwelfare
Parrots are in crisis. 29% of parrot species are endangered or threatened, largely due to the global parrot trade. Millions of captive parrots languish in human homes ill-equipped to provide for the needs of wild animals. Sanctuaries around the world are beyond capacity—too many unwanted parrots have nowhere to go, because humans failed them. To end the Parrot Crisis, we must stop selling, buying, and breeding them. No cage is big enough. www.allianceforparrots.org
March 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"Root of Language," ink drawing
#art #drawing #ink #surrealism #artistsofbluesky #humanart #language
Drawing of a tree with the alphabet written on the trunk, branches holding a heart with an eye, one branch that appears to be bleeding, and a giant fish emerging from the ground. In the sky is a waxing moon.
March 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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"Healing," digital painting.
#art #digitalpainting #abstractpainting #notai #digitalart #artistsofbluesky #painting #womanartist
Abstract painting with bold black and yellow passages through a blue background, with leaves, vines, and red texture in the foreground. White lines emanate from an orange ellipse, suggesting a sun or a blood cell.
March 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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"Electricity," digital painting.
#abstractpainting #art #digitalpainting #painting #februaryart #digitalart #notai
Abstract painting with bright yellow, hot pink, and black lines overlapping wider strokes of white, yellow, and pink on a sea-blue background, suggesting energy and light traversing a complex environment.
February 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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"Bloodwork," digital painting.
#art #digitalpainting #digitalart #abstractpainting #painting #notai
Closeup of a face drawn over a red background with green, black, and white shapes. The black shapes appear to have hand-like endings, grabbing at something.
February 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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A little caricature I drew of James Joyce some years ago.
#jamesjoyce #drawing #portrait #pencildrawing #art #traditionalart
Simple line drawing of James Joyce with small, round eyeglasses, a sharp chin, and a thin line for a mouth suggesting a slight smile.
February 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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"Egg," graphite on paper.
#art #drawing #graphitedrawing #traditionalart #portrait #humanart
Pencil drawing of a face resting on a surface, with strong eyebrows, deep expression lines, a circle and moon on the forehead, and an egg half-submerged under the surface.
February 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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You do not need to stop to reassess your purpose or intention to write. This is creative writing. It's like having high functioning anxiety except you're writing it down and calling it a book. Give in to the spiral.
February 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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newyorker.com
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"Compartmentalized," pencil on paper.
#art #drawing #traditionalart #graphite #humanart
Drawing of a face with the lower part underwater and divided into sections containing stars, a moon, a dark sun, broken eggs, and a fish with sharp teeth. The expression is somewhat vacant and fatigued.
February 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"Scaffold," digital painting, 2025.
#art #digitalpainting #abstractpainting #humanart
Abstract painting with white, yellow, orange, pink, and black strokes on a pale yellow background.
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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A short story from a while back, in Waxwing Literary Journal.
#shortstory #speculativefiction #waxwing #litmag #owl
Is Inside Is Outside | Willa Jarnagin
“Don’t talk back to the thoughts,” said the white owl, a pair of eyes on a snowy bough, to herself. Though it was hopeless. ❡
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January 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Half in Sunlight.
#digitaldrawing #humanart #artistsofbluesky #notai
A face drawn in pink lines, half in sunlight and half in a night sky with stars and a red, dripping moon.
January 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Charcoal portrait.

#charcoaldrawing #drawing #art #humanart #lifedrawing
Charcoal drawing of a woman with long hair, heavy-lidded eyes, and stark shadows on her face. The charcoal is smudged, with areas of erasure creating light on the woman's features.
January 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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"Shore." Digital painting (not AI).

#abstractpainting #digitalart #humanart
Bold pink strokes on a black background with a blue area suggestive of a sky with a sun, and sharp, round, and tangling shapes and lines.
January 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Oil on canvas

#art #painting #oilpainting #abstractpainting #artist #painter
abstract oil painting with red and green background blocks, overlaid with pink, yellow, and black shapes
January 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM