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South London Forever

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finished my short comic, titled AJDIG! full comic under the cut :)

AJDIG is a short comic i made for my maternal grandmother. my grandma hasnt seen a lot of my artwork, so i wanted to make something especially for her to enjoy. we dont have a language in common (she speaks chleuh and arabic; i speak french and english), so i also wanted to make something that could breach the communication barrier between us.

she cant read or write and shes never read a comic, so there were some limitations i had to work around when coming up with AJDIG: i obviously couldnt include any dialogue or text; i also couldnt have panels going left to right or right to left, because going from one panel to another wouldnt be intuitive. in the end i went for the format which seemed the most universal - a simple story read from top to bottom (almost no languages read from bottom to top).

this took a very long time to finish and i frankly didnt enjoy all of it - i didnt really have a good time doing the coloring - but im glad to have finished it!

#others #i'm going to cry over this. thank you #this is honestly one of the most beautiful thing ive ever seen #both the meaning/story behind it and the art #i hope she loves it

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DON’T YOU REALIZE OUR BODIES COULD FALL APART AT ANY SECOND?

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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun | Portrait of a Residential School Child. 2005

Yuxweluptun’s strategy is to document and promote change in contemporary Indigenous history using Coast Salish cosmology, Northwest Coast formal design elements, and the Western landscape tradition. His painted works explore political, environmental, and cultural issues. His personal and socio-political experiences enhance this practice of documentation.

Yuxweluptun style has often been likened to surrealism but he prefers to call it “visionism”. “The symbolic forms are interchangeable, based on my needs when I make a painting,” he says in his artist’s statement. “The symbolism transforms into landscape and other forms to create a vision.”

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Jack Vincent Anquoe, Jr. 'Tay-Nah-Tahn' (Kiowa Nation)

The original gouache painting with watercolor and ink is executed on a 1920s ledger page, just as captive Plains Indians did using colored pencils on lined ledger paper in the 1870s.

Soulis Auctions

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sky spirit (I forgive you)

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creeping along with(out) causalities

yeah, i'm just good at sucking at the wound

avoidance is a cur(s)e

yeah, i'm just good at pressing down on the bruise

i don't wanna be this dark cloud

i don't wanna be around you right now

can't blame it on not wanting to be around

i know you're not the same, i know the knife

was already in my side

yeah, i jiggled the handle

but i bucked that saddle

for a reason

i'll buck you too, yeah

(i know i won't, i know i will)

(i know i will, i know i won't)

can you just let me have this one? by laika wallace

#poetry #trauma poetry #avoidance #ptsd

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Added a warm red to a few new paintings 🖼️ in progress - Layers and layers and layers..

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realized i never shared my rot series from beginner's ceramics 🍊 obviously pretty wonky + some cracking and weird glaze stuff, but i really loved every step of the process <3 hoping i get to do it again sometime

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this is pretty much every piece I got out of the kiln this time around

it was a very good firing, I’m so happy with the results. I've updated my available pieces, and I'll make a new post about them in a couple hours

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here’s the full video piece!!

“nothing but the blood of”

mixed media sculpture with projections

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I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.

If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.

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weird animal flipbooks i made

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Check out my sculpture

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I made a little zine!

You can download and print it yourself for free here

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not to be like "well I have ten thousand words worth of written prose about this" but i do have about that much of what can only be described as monster hurt/comfort, the story of the human falconer who finds raggedy starving cuinn and takes him in. maybe I'll throw it up on google docs for u guys

#Been thinking lotttt about ice storm over kosa lately so I will have to read this #Others

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