#mt home

[vesrin]

Why haven't I seen anyone talking about the fact that Caleb wanted to name their house in Xhorhas "MT Home" - not even the house, but home - in memory of Molly???,?????

Fuck guys, I'm all soft rn

[mthomearts]

buy this poster from me for money please!  just added it to the store.

[flipe-blog]

Bummer news: I am stepping away from Mt. Home Arts. This is a toughie. I have gotten to work with Matthew Van Asselt on some project/label/collective/thing for the last 5 years. He is an incredible partner and has pushed me in ways that have been so formative to my ideas about art-- and what it means when that’s in your hands. Unfortunately the whole ‘3,000 miles between us’ thing has proved really difficult to manage. I have been less and less active as a partner. It’s no good.

Being in California is hard. It’s harder still when I haven’t found a community that gets me super stoked. While bummed about this these last few days, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what these communities mean to me. If my idea of DIY is geographically specific, is that still true to the ethic? Isn’t the beauty of this scene, this community that it can be transposed and transplanted, moved around and adapted? I think so. Even if it isn’t immediately obvious to me, I know these shapes change and have been changing the whole time. Matt said “I think ‘home’ as a place has to be malleable.” Mt. Home isn’t home, it was an outlet to articulate my artistic ideas for the last few years. It’s a shell. It’s a means of expression. Your good stuff will always follow you, because it’s yours. It gets gooder with friends. To trap that idea within a specific space and time is damaging to the livelihood of this ethic we care about. It’s damaging to your potential as a creator.

I’m scared and excited. I'm scared to lose something I care about and I'm scared to shift my idea of community. I’m excited to be working on GRASSTRONAUT and to be having these conversations and I’m excited for what comes next. Let's talk. We’ll see. <3