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[summerwithlilacsky]

Overcome Something

I thought we'd passed through it

I thought thing's going back to normal

Thought our scars were healing

But I guess I was wrong

After so long

After all this time

After I tried my best to

Show you everything's fine

You brought him back

You thought I was talking about him

When all you could think was that

I wanted some time alone with you

There was no context for you to

Bring him back

But you did

You thought about him asking me to

Go to a motel with him

But everything the context told you

Was that I'd like to go to a motel with you

And spend quality time with you

I'll not deny that

You bringing him up again

Hurt me

I just want to overcome it

Just wanted to leave it behind

Like it never happened

But you had to let your insecurities speak

Louder than reason

And now here I am

Writing about it

Because I can speak to no one

About it

(By Summer Sky)

[leenlue]

The Great Tsunami

Once, I wrote you a poem

And you loved it

And you loved me

But what you didn't know, is that I wrote you three more after you said you didn't want me and I cried

I cried tsunamis and hurricanes

And I guess you could say I'm not over it

Because whenever I see her I feel a knife through my chest

A sharp pain

One that only you could inflict

And of course you love her now

I get it

She has a smile like the full moon

One that you have to stop and look at to see if it's real

It's mesmerizing

It engrosses you

And you've always been one to worry about looks

Well look

That's shallow

But I know

That the girl who writes poetry every time she feels an emotion is not what you wanted at all

I was merely the bus stop to your real destination

Some kind of

Procrastination

I was nothing

To you

Yeah, I get it

A girl who can light up a room is one you wanna keep, man, she's special

But I thought I was special too

See what kept me going was

You

And you were all that I wanted so I just gotta ask

Why'd you do it?

I hate to say this but I hope she breaks your heart

I hope you tell me

Every grueling detail

And the excuse she had

Because even though you'll be sad you'll understand the devastation you caused me, and all those countries that had to live with the great tsunami.

- d.

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose-deac]

In some corners of the internet there is a readiness to call anything pretentious whenever it is complex, abstract or deliberately alienating. Some people are also eager to claim that artists are too self-serious, snooty and elitist whenever they create something that is not straightforwardly understood.

They pretend art has always existed to appeal to the greatest number of people and appeal in a way that is simple and explicable. If you look at the history of art that could not be further from the truth. Even art that was performed to an ‘illiterate’ public often maintained layers of meaning and ambiguity throughout long periods of history (just look at the global historical traditions of oral storytelling)

The simplification of art and the expectation that everything should appeal to a wide audience is the result of commodification not democratisation. Art has arguably never been less revered than now and still there are people who think it has further to fall in esteem. Just look at the AI movement’s desire to undermine artists while stealing their work.

I believe that the ‘it’s not that deep’ crowd who is eager to wield the accusation of pretentiousness whenever something doesn’t connect to them is part of an anti-artist, anti-intellectual movement to do away with mainstream non-consumerist (non-recuperable) art.

There has been a concerted effort by corporations and those purely interested in consumerism to erase the notion that art is primarily a human expression that is not necessarily made to pander to a wide audience. Every day we see more efforts in the social media & technological culture wars to devalue art and demonise artists who wish to create artistically fulfilling works rather than crowd-pleasing content.

I think we need to push back harder against this. The anti-complexity consumerist mindset is not only incurious and subservient to corporations, it’s also anti-intellectual, anti-cultural and insidiously reactionary.

[dramarising-replacement]

Most of you have no idea how making a living with art actually works Your experience begins and ends with watching a generic popfur smut artists get 10k a month in passive income via patreon subs and cashapp donations and it shows In the professional art world if you take 40 hours a week to produce 1 digital piece you will be replaced laughably fast. Being expected to yield something after a 40 hour work week is not crunch culture, that’s an average full time job. People I’ve worked with who make an income exclusively through art are capable of producing 6 12x12 water color landscapes a week and that’s on the slower end. Hobby commissions =/= art as a full time job It’s unreasonable to expect fully lined and painted art from a commissioner online to be done quickly. That’s a completely different standard for completion time since most people who do commissions are only doing it on the side and aren’t looking to enter professional spheres The site credits almost 20 artists. A significant few being “contributors” im not sure if they were hired on a one-off contractual basis to do one or two drawings and no more than that, but nearly all of them address themselves as active members of the art team so Im counting them as well. A lot of the apparel is copypasted, rotated and flipped. There is nothing wrong with this but it’s a simple fact and it’s efficient. I’m not sure why users get so angry about acknowledging this but I’m not arguing this point because it’s obvious with the barest amount of looking. Undel sketched and lined a dragon in 5 hours in a stream where she was heavily distracted by chat and kept forgetting how to use her tablet. They dont’ color by hand, they run it through a coloring program. All of this adds up to a system that should be more efficient than it is If this site can’t manage to get a modern done more frequently than 1 every 5+ years then it’s a sign of either gross mismanagement or they need to hire more productive artists “the artists are already bogged down/there’s too much apparel” yet they release a new ancient every couple of months which increases their gene bloat and errors and decided it was a good idea to add 2 genes a month to the festival items. Those are not the choices of a struggling team. Nobody adds a few gallons to the tub when they’re already drowning.

It’s fine to think that the pace that they produce art is acceptable. If your standards and opinions line up with their output then you’re entitled to feel that way. At least try to admit it’s based on your personal preferences and opinions rather than a professional standard you clearly don’t know anything about

[yuumei-art]

Terrarium wings Brittle things My imaginary Sanctuary Part of my Glass Wings Series

[altrbody]

Abstraction:

"Abstraction is flying. Abstracting is ascending to higher and higher levels of conceptual generalization; soaring back and forth, reflectively circling around above the specificity and immediacy of things and events in space and time, from a perspective that embeds them in a conceptual framework of increasing breadth and depth, a framework without horizon, ceil-ing, or basement; a framework composed of increasingly comprehensive concepts that generalize over increasingly comprehensive classes of things, organize them relative to one another, unify them into a coherent tapestry, a dizzying object of contemplation the details of which stun one into panic by their connectedness, significance, and vividness.

Abstraction is also flight. It is freedom from the immediate spatiotemporal constraints of the moment; freedom to plan the future, recall the past, comprehend the present from a reflective perspective that incorporates all three; freedom from the immediate boundaries of concrete subjectivity, freedom to imagine the possible and transport oneself into it; freedom to survey the real as a resource for embodying the possible; freedom to detach the realized object from oneself more and more fully as a self-contained entity, fully determined by its contextual properties and relations, and consider it from afar, as new grist for the mill of the possible. Abstraction is freedom from the socially prescribed and consensually accepted; freedom to violate in imagination the constraints of public practice, to play with conventions, or to indulge them. Abstraction is a solitary journey through the conceptual uni-verse, with no anchors, no cues, no signposts, no maps, no foundations to cling to. Abstraction makes one love material objects all the more."

--Adrian Piper

From Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987, Alternative Museum, New York City April 18-May 30, 1987.

[smii-doodles]

Isn’t it funny how you can probably tell a lot about what an artist looks like based on features they subconsciously add to their work?

Like how artists with thin hair probably don’t draw many characters with thick hair bcos they’re mentally referencing themselves for what a hairstyle would look like. Or artists with a very unique nose shape will draw characters with that nose shape a lot cos it’s just a normal nose shape when they have it. Or how artists with moles or freckles probably add those features more often than artists without. Artists who wear glasses probably draw specifically the glasses style that they wear more than any other because it’s the easiest to get reference for

…And you can also generally tell what an artist DOESNT look like by features that look awkward in their pieces. Like when a characters hair looks like a solid piece rather than looking like there’s a head under there bcos that artist so clearly didn’t get a reference for what that hairstyle might look like irl. If a chubby character looks really unnatural it’s probably bcos the artist isn’t chubby and hasn’t done their homework. If a character has facial hair and it just looks bad then they probably don’t have facial hair because otherwise they’d probably have more experience drawing it.

It really makes me think a lot about subconscious biases I might have in my art without realising and abt how we accidentally create representation of ourselves in our character art when we don’t see our features represented by media.

[the-golden-comet]

Lately on my dash, I have been seeing lots of wonderful mutuals get too hard on their beautiful minds.

Lovelies, your stories and art are beautiful because they are from you, and FOR you. Stats do not determine the quality of a product. Again, some of the BEST stories on the archive I have ever read were around 100 hits, and 0-10 kudos. Some of the BEST ART I’ve seen has 0 notes.

You know how I can tell? Because the authors and artists poured their heart and soul into their craft. As long as it can inspire ONE person, you should be proud. You just radically changed the life and perspective of ONE person. That’s amazing.

Sure, you might think your art or story is “cringe” or “bad”…OR, it can be someone’s comfort piece that they go back to after a long day. You may see your stats and think, “man, nobody enjoys this,” not knowing that maybe, juuuust maybe, you have that ONE person who you’ve inspired, who loves your work, and lurks your socials awaiting for your next project. Your art, your music, YOUR story has the potential to do that, but you have to love what YOU do.

And yes, your love WILL show. Maybe not with stats, or kudos, or notes, or comments. But you may be someone’s favorite without even knowing. As long as your art is out there, it WILL reach somebody. I will try to be that somebody for a lot of you, but there is indeed A LOT of you.

In a world where media is being “consumed” for “content,” remember that ART comes from the heART (sorry not sorry for being cheesy). Artists, Writers, Poets, Musicians, Sculptors, HUMANS: Get your hearts out there for the world to see. The world needs more motivated minds. 💫

[withastorytotell]

The problem with being too much is not knowing where to put it and how to hide it. When I was in grade 5 I had a friend. I loved her enough to want her to have all of the world that I knew and had. I didn't have much, but on her birthday, I wanted to give her a big gift. So I took a pink shoe box although I didn't have much to put in it and put in the best of the things that I had. Despite them being used, I wanted her to have them. A beautiful key tag, a colourful pen, a card, an artificial flower and a lot of old things. My mom took one look and gave me a lecture that it's not appropriate to give old things as birthday gifts. But it was everything that I wanted her to have and everything that reminded me of her. It was all I had. I couldn't ask mom to buy me things when I knew she had it hard. So I hoped for the best and gave the gift I put together to my friend. I felt proud to see her smile at the big box in spite of my overwhelmed broken heart. Because I wanted her to have the best but I could not give her the best. I could only give her all I had. It was things like this that made me inappropriate. I cared too much, I wanted to give a lot, I wanted to solve your problems and feed you tasty home made dishes and hear your opinions and ideas and difficulties but it was nosy, unnecessary, overwhelming, serious, boring, elderly, over-sensitive, fragile, problematic and all the terms that they used to put off my strongest of feelings. I was simply too much, although that made them happy they didn't want that normal. Not too often. So I hid it. I grew tougher, stronger and even though I was too much and i hid it well, I still wrote my friends love letters with essays too long which I could only send on their birthdays and hope I put it in a safe place

[th3-0bjectivist]

(Street) Art in Charlotte 08JUL23

I was sauntering through Charlotte this last weekend.

I was with my new lady friend and headed to The Mint Museum.

When all the sudden a very colorful alleyway appeared.

With some of the most rich and vibrant street art I’ve seen.

I mean, look at this… the quality was unbelievable. 

Had to catch some of it on camera.

This was the most artful alleyway I’ve seen in my life to this point.

What an ideal way to beautify your city.

Between a garage and high rises around 100 E. Fourth Street.

Finally, near the museum.

My lady and I had drinks after… glad I moved here!

[thepeacockangel]

Art and Experience

I am thinking about art and thinking about how there is a vast gap between the parts of art observed from life and experience and that which is inspired by other art. And I am not denigrating one in favor of the other.

I think art sort of requires both. But I guess I am focused on the modern "Why is my YA space opera not as respected as Toni Morrison" and I think there's something to be questioned there.

I was inspired to this train of thought in comparing my own work to that of Jean Genet, and his minutely observed portraits of the French Underclass men he was attracted to (and who frankly he was) and then I was thinking about Tolkien and his endless imitators, and how much of his work is deeply inspired by the like... actual experience of being a linguist and his time in the trenches. And like Toni Morrison is not at all a writer who resists the fantastical in her work, but again there is that core of experience derived from life that informs the work.

So, it's not that you can't write a good or interesting or artistically meaningful space opera, but I think your source material must include not just other space operas, but also some of your own actual experiences. And I think perhaps as more and more of our lives have been consumed by the most mind-deadening labor, and our leisure time increasingly devoted to the consumption of media rather than the experience of life... perhaps art has suffered as a result of that?

I am someone who adores reading, and who loves art and artists very deeply, but I do see a lot of stuff we're getting as a photo-copy of a photo-copy of a photo-copy with relatively little added. And I think as well in a world of the sort of atomized cloistered banal horror at lot of people live in, it can be very tempting to throw all the lived experience of being one's self out of art, except perhaps for some shallow nods to identity category to make the full escape into fantasy more effective.

I also think perhaps the... rise of the aesthetic over the subculture is also somehow connected to this.

A subsculture was rooted partially at least in connection with others, and also with the lived experience of being oneself.

But you can have a cottagecore aesthetic, a cottagecore fantasy life while working at a call centre. It is derived fully from fantasy and disconnected from actual experience.

This fantasized self, replacing the actual conditions of the self also has a bad effect on political activity. We can all lose ourselves in our inner worlds, in an attempt to escape the horrors of the outer one.

[yuumei-art]

Growing Stars~

Before they're picked and pinned to the sky⭐🌟✨

HD images and art videos on my Patreon.com/Yuumei

[pedazos-rotos-de-mi]

[heikala]

Dawn 🌷 Continuing with the theme of tiny characters in huge surroundings. Really happy with the glowy effect. Lately I noticed that the watercolor paper texture my home scanner makes is very prominent compared to the Epson at my studio 😅

[thecollectibles]

Art by Sa Si

[yuumei-art]

Happy Year of the Dragon!

I love the idea of kintsugi so here's a porcelain dragon that highlights the broken seams with gold. Despite all the pains of hardships in life, we are beautiful.

[die-rosastrasse]

Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨