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Xe | Art Mostly | 8teen | 🇮🇳 ⚧︎ “From Here to Utopia.”

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Art saved my life, it can save yours too (I say not like a contaminated parasite spreading my disease)

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some studies from this past week

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AP 2D Portfolio that scored a 5 (With Tips!)

My Sustained Investigation explored the things that shape us into who we become and analyzed to what extent we have control over who we become. Nietzsche famously believed that we have no free will, whereas Sartre believed that from birth you have complete freedom. How much of who I become is within my control. I’ve dealt with anxiety almost my whole life and a big part of my fear is that I am a bad person, by looking through my identity I allow myself to see who I am from the bones out. I can see that I am not actually a bad person, and I can find my natural biases to overcome.

When I submitted my portfolio, I ordered my pieces from most to least free will in that influence. The last three pieces combined the ideas and symbolism I had developed throughout my pieces, to fully synthesize my ideas. With every piece I learned something new that I would implement into the next piece. At portfolio day, colleges told me I should get more experimental in my work, which drove me to making my own paints from spinach, turmeric, charcoal, or combining dirt with glue and working on rock. Crochet became a bigger part of my practice this year. I think my level of experimentation and synthesizing as well as my communication of each process is why I received a 5, while other fully qualified artists did not. When you make a tedious piece, use a composite slide to show your process, let text he secondary. There’s already minimal characters. Within that maximize what you can say by dropping vowels or spaces, they cannot count off for grammar or spelling.

Writing is truly the most important part of the exam, look at the rubric and examples. If you can’t communicate your ideas, you have failed. I revised my writing into the dirt, I had my teachers and parents revise it over and over. Work in a google doc and write as big as you can, covering all the ideas and details you did. Save that and just rewrite it until you fit all that depth in the character limit. I had like 5-10 versions of most text boxes. Write as you make your art, you don’t want to forget anything.

Good luck and you’ve got this!

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Art by Pavel Oleinik

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Happy 100th Birthday to the Greatest! 🙏

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Flat colors, dreaming about being a cowboy

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You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

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If I told you I wrote this while thinking about the dangers of being visibly trans vs never trying to transition at all, happiness followed by a bright, burning end, smacking hard against a concrete ocean vs playing it too safe and never flying high, dooming you to a cold, crushing end from drowning, You'd believe me, right?

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Me when I can’t paint my face for some reason

And I almost exclusively paint self portraits

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"don't perform self-surgery! only medical professionals should do that!" appeal to authority. "no one does that!" bandwagon fallacy. "you're crazy!" ad hominem

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“From the River to the Sea”

Linoleum Reduction Print made in Drawing II.

There’s something helpless about seeing the full extent of evil being cast upon the Palestinian people year after year, watching your country, your taxes, your hand pull the trigger. We are constantly informed, almost against our will, and I know selfishly, I make art about the pain I feel watching it, believing it will absolve me of some of the guilt I feel just sitting here. I sit in discomfort, knowing this is only “controversial” because that’s how the government likes it, to uphold the white occupying force in the Middle East, our empire. Because the victims are Muslim and Arab, they’ll convince you they are somehow less alive because you don’t look the same. I try not to mope, I know it’s self centered, demoralizing, and ineffective. I know you probably feel it to. But it’s not helpless, there are things you can do. Contact your congresspeople, boycott business that fund Israel’s genocide, donate, protest, find community.

I was watching a FD Signifier video, and he said something along the lines of “consuming content is not praxis,” and the irony of saying this on Tumblr after consuming it on YouTube is not lost on me, but nonetheless, it’s so easy to forget and that serves those who want you to look away.

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Type shit I’m on rn

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Ink and watercolor triptych of a goat in Costa Rica 🇨🇷!