Art is hard

Just call me Metal | He/She/they | 20+ | Aromantic Bisexual | Multifandom Artist

[metalliccatastrophe]

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[post-it-notes7]

he's not wrong

[eatingmarkerz]

realizd i never actually drew zidane sooooooo hav a zidoodle 👀

[pastelaeqy]

spent way too long on this. enjoy.

[anistarrae]

haii👋

[fishbonesart]

NEW EEBEES

and a little extra

[wweaselkat]

summer themed sonic sticker designs for a local artist alley thing! projecting the heatwave onto them.......

[mihhnt]

[ziekkfreak2-0]

with her pussy facin the world and everything

based on this post my friends shared w me:

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[nimbosaur]

How it feels getting attached to flowery

[aidensdesign]

Finally was able to finish this! DELTARUNE chapter 5!

[drawloverlala]

Flowery drawings 🌻

[chameshida]

The Eye of the universe

[rene-elric]

Mew Mew saving the day!!

[autumnsavageart]

Moominmamma you will always be famous to me

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[corpsekeys]

murder drones has captivated me