welcome to my deceased art blog

hello I am chen & this was my art blog. now its mostly art reblogs, music, & replies. I stopped making&sharing digital art circa 2017. worldafuk2bajilliondeceasedcops

[illufinch]

march, my bird army

[illufinch]

the army grows

[pixels-and-layouts]

[catmask]

i remember when i talked about sharing free resources for art/learning and someone said 'dont be a communist' in response to it. ?????????????? why. are you scared

[catmask]

yeah its almost like if we realized we could just share things once our needs are met and capital gain wasnt treated like this thing to grow exponentially forever we would live in a better world and the current system would be threatened. are you scared. boo

[read-marx-and-lenin]

They probably are scared. There's not a hard difference between the free sharing of art resources and the free sharing of art itself, and plenty of artists (namely the petit-bourgeois ones) are not very fond of the idea of no longer owning and controlling intellectual property.

We shouldn't think of art as some magically progressive profession. We need to recognize the class division between proletarian artists and bourgeois artists. We need to recognize that if you are someone who is acting towards a goal of privately owning and profiting from intellectual property, then you are petit-bourgeois and your material interests will align with the capitalist class. From that perspective, the anti-communist tendencies of indie artists become obvious rather than mysterious.

Communism won't let you own an idea or a character or a media franchise. Communism won't let you license properties and collect revenue. Communism won't let you earn passive income. So to someone whose envisioned career path is "I will make a popular piece of media and live off of the revenue of sales, licensing, and/or merchandising", the abolition of private property is genuinely frightening.

We can talk all day about how communism would grant artists more freedom in their creative pursuits, but if we don't recognize how closely capitalism ties the concepts of creativity and entrepreneurship, we will be left confused as to why otherwise "progressive" artists hold reactionary views when it comes to economics.

[amartworks]

I think a lot about the architecture ideas drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée

They're sketches from the 1780s and they look like the end of the fucking universe

[beweme]

Aden Luz Rienspects

[strangestarlightmusics]

BBC Source here

[dancinbutterfly]

Holy shit THEY STOLE THE CROWN JEWELS

[aniseandspearmint]

THEY ESCAPED ON A SCOOTER

[were--ralph]

[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.

[huariqueje]

Glow I - Sean William Randall , 2025.

Canadian , b. 1965 -

Acrylic on panel , 40 x 36 in.

[riibrego]

sleeping citrus 🍊

wallpaper sizes //  prints // coloring sheet

[polkadotmotmot]

Deborah Brown - Fish Tale, 2023 - Oil on canvas

[salmon-n-hazel]

A Cuttlefish in motion

I was mesmerised by the motion of their fins so I challenged myself to make an animation of them.

[obsob]

hand in hand <3

print shop ✴ patreon

[ionomycin]

sunken city hall

[dozydawn]

[lefildelhorizon]

CRISS CANNING, Green Chrysanthemum, 2016

[urhajos]

Hayden Clay

[leiaham]

First Post!

I deleted my old tumblr because... man idk why it was covid-times and the prefrontal cortex was not in the room with us!! Anyways, I was reminded by my lovely friend @repecca that tumblr exists, and that some of my work has been going around on here, so I decided to post some of my work up officially! Starting off with my most notable (?) work to date, here's my LOTR: The Middle Kingdom Project. Now, it's been over a year since I posted this, and at the time I was... really searchingfor myself artistically, and I decided to go all in on something that I'd been ruminating on for a long time.

So, hello, again. I'm Leia. I do visual development/BG design, and I'm also a writer of things. I love fantasy and transformative work. It's nice to meet you.