KAT DRAWS STUFF

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[katart8809]

Commission for @mleraptor on bsky! 🥰🤸 tysm for commissioning me!

[katart8809]

Commission for @gabby-gaming!! thank u for commissioning me

[grubarchived]

i see a lot of art filled with plants, like, in the american art scene there seems to be a kind of general movement towards and appreciation of ruined structures being overtaken by nature. offices full of dead computers and leaves. walls with ivy. old factories crawling with new growth. a symbol of degrowth, of new futures that devour and reject colonial modernism, of a refutation of the tyranny over land. it's a nice sentiment.

but consistently im noticing something odd, which is that over and over the plants depicted in art are very familiar -- they're houseplants. pothos. monstera. calathea. zamioculcas. plants growing in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong climate, a mishmash of unrelated folks with far-flung origins symbolizing "natural" retaking of the modern world.

plants, specifically, that are directly tied to the legacy of colonialism. from northern africa. from southern america. from india. plants that were collected as curios during periods of direct imperialism. plants kept as trophies, plants sold at high prices. plants that are "exotic". that are beautiful. that are high-value. plants whose people got no payment for their capture.

they're the plants people in american colonial territory, who lack access to native plant community, see most often -- that is, other than "weeds". and so when these artists reach for the pure idea of plant, the concept of nature, these plants are their only blueprint. dragging with them all of the baggage of hundreds of years of empire.

it's incredible how much this changes the messaging of the image. dreams of ecological participation stained with a creeping theme of alienation from their native biosphere. the thumbprint of colonialism, clear as day. a hopeful vision of the future, kneecapped by its own symbology. hundreds of individual artists so alienated from their own ecosystems that even their fantasy of participation with nature is inextricable from colonialist trophies. trying to imagine reclaiming the world.

[katart8809]

Having the setup for this going.for years feels so good qnd also misery

Tfw ur a infinite dragon and the bronze dragon u love is doomed way before you are.

[katart8809]

Having the setup for this going.for years feels so good qnd also misery

Tfw ur a infinite dragon and the bronze dragon u love is doomed way before you are.

[katart8809]

Massaging them in my brain. Have many thots.

They are so normal about their relationship and also being the same person but not being the same person.

[katart8809]

The drifter is doing sooooooooooo good in the origin system

[sevastiel]

Calling the drifter tenno to get his attention is such a funny gut punch since like, the Lotus, the one person he was actually originally trying to help, straight up said 'youre not a fkking tenno, die' LIKE

[katart8809]

@sevastiel oh :) hehe i KNOW >:) Drifter in particular never really gets a name that he wants its always these things that arent his and a constant reminder he belongs absolutely NOWHERE. (drifter, tenno, operator, hero, ect). Its just a big ugly sign of "fuck you you're the stand in errand boy"

[katart8809]

The drifter is doing sooooooooooo good in the origin system

[katart8809]

They're kind of oppsites from their operators

[katart8809]

Massaging them in my brain. Have many thots.

They are so normal about their relationship and also being the same person but not being the same person.

[hollow-toy]

mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

[katart8809]

Oisin and their older sibling and also, his nephew who is Babey

[katart8809]

Becauze they live rent free in my brain; Oisin's (operstor/drifter) older sibling!!! Maurki.

Bonus;

They came with Oisin on the Zaramin with their family. Their husband is an ex dax that they basically fanagled out of an Orokin's hands and is totallynotwhythey'releaving.

They have 2 kids together and are soooo alive and normal

[katart8809]

I gotta say, seeing all the drifter art and getting into warframe doodles has rly got me drawing more than I have in a while which is rly nice.

[katart8809]

i guess i do have to APOLOGIZE TO THE WARCRAFT GIRLIES

🫶 there will be more one day once campaign stuff kicks up more

[katart8809]

I gotta say, seeing all the drifter art and getting into warframe doodles has rly got me drawing more than I have in a while which is rly nice.

[katart8809]

More drifter! Duvuri fit.

I forgor his face markings but its fine just a doodle

[katart8809]

👀👀👀👀 WAIT OK HOLD ON

[katart8809]

Ya'll liked basil so heres some basil doodles