Yknow somwtimes i just log onto whatever internet art place seems tolerable to browse on for the day like "boy howdy i cant wait to see some more content of my favorite characters!! theyre so scrunkly im super excited to get some hyperfixation juice in"
And then my favorite characters are mine. And my friends'. We made them theyre from our rpg campaign. There is no content to mindlessly scroll through online. We make the content. Goddamit.
I have been getting this question all throughout my life about how my life is turning out to be. Where I used to feel lively and happy. I am just getting exhausted and tired. And so bored the fuck from life. It’s like everything I used to do or create has been snapped away from me and locked into Adulting.
Is this what growing up is? You get so busy with paying your bills that you forget that it was you in the first place who wanted to start paying the bills. So why do I feel like it’s all pointless?
To me, life has meaning. Corporate sectors and bills are all good. But I wanna do more in life. I wanna make a contribution to someone’s happiness. I wanna make a living through which I can actually live and breathe. I wanna love being able to live and not just for the sake of it.
I’ll do everything in my life to cherish my life. But I won’t let myself die unsatisfied. I am hungry to create. And I’ll create with passion.
So... anyone who might see me reblogging their post/stories/art/etc. Just so you know that it's my way of showing my love and appreciation to your creativeness. Hope you don't mind me doing it🫣😌
I just love how playful, free, and creative someone can be with their art and imagination (sorry for the lack of better term)
In imagination we feel sure that it would be lovely to live with a full and rich awareness of the world. But in practice sensitiveness hurts. It is not possible to develop the capacity to see beauty without developing also the capacity to see ugliness, for they are the same capacity. The capacity for joy is also the capacity for pain. We soon find that any increase in our sensitiveness to what is lovely in the world increases also our capacity for being hurt. That is the dilemma in which life has placed us. We must choose between a life that is thin and narrow, uncreative and mechanical, with the assurance that even if it is not very exciting it will not be intolerably painful; and a life in which the increase in its fullness and creativeness brings a vast increase in delight, but also in pain and hurt.
"All creativeness in the realm of the spirit as well as every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul, and the cause of the suffering is spiritual stagnation, or psychic sterility".
— C.G. Jung, Psychology and Religion: West and East
Hello everyone I hope your day is going well . As I was going through Photos of paintings I had done I came across this one and was reminded of one of life‘s tougher lessons. The dynamic duo between Love and Loss.
KYARRA, Gavin, Kane and Zoey(rest in peace Zoe dog)
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I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.
Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".
Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"
I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"
Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"
PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.
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Korean-American painter Leeah Joo’s work is inspired by the enigmatic and hidden. In her illusionist paintings, she teases our predisposition to probe and uncover. Intriguing parcels in her Pojagi series are enveloped by a lavish, traditional Korean wrapping cloth and beckon to be unpacked. The richly detailed paintings of lacey drapery in her Parrhasius series present an open-ended narrative, inviting us to question what lies behind the curtain. Joo studied painting and art history at Indiana University in Bloomington and received her MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art, Her paintings have been exhibited widely in the U.S. and South Korea. She is the recipient of notable awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, George Sugarman Foundation, Connecticut Commission on Arts and the Puffin Foundation. Currently, Leeah Joo lives and paints in Middlebury, Connecticut and teaches at Southern CT State University and Paier College.