#volitional

[noisytenant]

lets spread the power of education and transformation to all ends of the earth and yes - that includes within our own hearts 🕊️🌱🌐💧🪷✨💗

[noisytenant]

let's become scallops

[noisytenant]

Good evening. Let's bring home some hazardous materials

[noisytenant]

Good evening. Let's bring home some hazardous materials

[noisytenant]

Let's have fun measuring various things

[lillmossymoth]

my dream journal 💭 i haven’t dreamed in a long time, so i wrote my aspirations down instead in an attempt to manifest them. (some are a little personal, so if you read them please don’t judge :))

[lillmossymoth]

discover in your practice how you hold your story

I don’t have any pictures to go along with this, but a lot of my work recently has focused on objects in my apartment—objects that I already own and have memories with. In a way, I think this has added a history and more of a personal story to my work. Before quarantine, I would take photos around Iowa City or of places that I didn’t have much personal history with. So now my work feels more like me in a way. This has also inspired me to try and use what I have from past projects in my current work. I kept all my test strips and failed prints from my past classes (probably for sentimental value, but I told myself it was because paper is too expensive to waste) and I want to start using them in my current projects. Even though they are flawed and imperfect, I think I could create something new and unique with them. If I did use all of the test strips, failed prints, and ruined negatives, I think that would tell my story in its own way—as if my photography journey would be shown through the prints that only functioned as a learning process in the first place. This is all a new idea, as it’s my first time even writing it out, but I think I’ve already started shifting my practice to fit this idea.

In our first project for the semester, I used dried flowers that I had purchased this summer for another art project. I also used photographs I had already taken for my digital negatives, and jewelry materials I had in my apartment to connect the cyanotypes together. It already seemed like a personal piece due to the subject matter, but it felt even more personal because it was thrown together with things I already owned. Our current project feels personal in the same way. I’m using materials I’ve found in my apartment and I’m combining mediums because it will feel more personal and true to what I’m trying to get across. I don’t want to give away too much before Tuesday, but I hope to use a mix of my imperfect pieces and new pieces to create my garden. I’m excited to see what I can create.

[zoomhater222]

delirious dysania and jaunty jokes

how exhausting it is too morph constantly.

mind-numbing internal mayhem 

meets

the illusion of safety 

through performing what you want to see.

what you want to see.

what a collab.

I receive adulation,

but when the curtain closes, I am with me,

 and I stare.

ineffable imagination

dreaming of a world where your projections don’t make me want to run.