recent events

just an update! for early summer


I’ve been helping with a zine lately, and this last issue, they had two mini zines inside it like a nesting doll.

I feel like the internet in general is degrading; LLMs (they’re not “AI”, they’re predictive models) are prevalent and becoming indistinguishable from people. Of course my work and my posts have been used without consent to teach them to do what they do. it’s put me off from posting art, garden videos, from writing online.

but here I am anyway. I have been out protesting- I’ve been volunteering. I’ve been doing what I can. I burned out for a while, though and had to cut back a little both on work and on mutual aid work. I’m still balancing everything.

at work:

at home, the garden is going. I had my free plant table out and I’ve had people sending me pictures of things growing. it’s a slow year, the weather has been strange but it’s now into the hot dry time, so things should begin pumping up into a jungle soon.

 

i became discouraged about video content, but have been trying to archive it all to a youtube channel. it’s taking some time.

I don’t have ads or monetized pages anywhere so, it’s a labor of love to do everything online for me. I’m still slowly picking away at old debt and have a running gofundme for help with that- I don’t have originals organized to sell right now, I’m still unpacking into my studio room so those are stacked and not inventoried. prints and all are still on that page here though.

I’m eating pretty well,

harvesting food:

 

these are my usual items to post. I’m watching the world crumble around us in so many ways but I have hope we can stop it. I have hope we can fix it.

our systems were like a building that didn’t have a wheelchair ramp, a building with broken windows, no heat and a shitty parking lot. these right wing accelerationists and their groups have sown chaos and torn the building down.

 

the question is whether we take the opportunity to use that vacant lot to put up something better than that crappy old building, or whether we try to put up that shit pile the way it used to be.

I hope we plant a garden and put in a nice accessible building with a mural on the front, instead of the cinderblock mess that was there before. my optimism is boundless but my anger and grief is the same.

 

please mask up (n95 or better), be as safe as you can be out there, and do your best. it’s all we can do.

 

current portfolio gallery update! 2022-2024

gallery of a variety of promotional images from over the years!

I’ll be organizing and working up my portfolio into sections this week: this gallery of various promotional images from over the years seemed like a good post to make.

2024 Garden Things!

a rough winter; will post in depth later

mornings; journal snippets

While dozing,

I had a dream of you.

The sheets rustled, warm,

And angels shouted,

beside our close whispers,

their voices rang aloud: “Love,”

And that was when I, dreaming, knew,

There never would be another like you, for me.

But I awoke alone,

No traces of you, the cold sheets flat.

So remembering the dream,

I closed my eyes,

 and hoped.

12/1/24

That ominous vibration,

as of an unseen

massive thing stampeding,

rushingthroughtime

to arrive.

conservatives supported the crown in colonial days. “this isn’t the proper way.”  “we’ve never helped revolutionaries, why start now?” “can’t things just go on as they have.”

conservatives wanted slaves. “it’s how we’ve always done this.” “can’t things just go on as they have.”

conservatives fought for Jim Crow laws. “put it back how it was.” “can’t things just go on as they have.”

conservatives fought against giving Black people the vote. women the right to vote, natives the right to vote. “it’s never done that way.” “we’ve never helped Negroes, or women, why start now?” “can’t things just go on as they have.”

conservatives fight to retain, not to progress. conservatives fought to destroy native american sovereignty and land use. “we’ve never helped indians, why start now?” “that’s not how we do things.” “can’t things just go on as they have.”

If you believe what the bible says: Jesus was opposed and murdered by conservatives. “how dare anyone change the rules.” “it’s not how we do things.” “imagine inviting a prostitute into your circle.” “we’ve never helped lepers, why start now?”

“can’t things just go on as they have?”

“can’t we do it how we used to do. back when I didn’t have to care?”

 

 

:writing taken from morning journal, images chosen for mood and nothing more:

 

new patreon posts starting today

I’ll be using it instead of tiktok/fb/IG from now on, free members can see a lot there.

paid members can see a lot more.

new prints and shirts: which do you want first?

rebuilding my print/shirt shops and I want your opinion! Take the poll and let me know.

unrelated chunk of coal.

reworking my patreon with YOUR feedback!

I’m rebuilding and restructuring my Patreon today, and I’m wondering what you all would like to see:
  • for free (there will always be some free content there!)
  • for small monthly subscriptions (what would you pay 3 bucks a month to look at?)
  • for bigger amounts (tattoo classes or info that’s more guarded? art tech? readings from my books? what???)
  • physical goods- books, preprints, zines, art prints? early access to sales of originals, discounts?
if you have suggestions, ideas, things you’d like to see, thoughts about what you would pay for or what you think would be worth paying for (and your thoughts on costs!)
please let me know. you can see my patreon at this link.
feel free to go look at the free content there, see what I’ve been posting behind the paywall with the previews, and let me know what you think. I’m interested in YOU and your thoughts; your criticism is more than welcome!
most recent post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/talking-about-116394983 is talking about flash, history, and showing some pieces from my collection.

November 2024; the light to see

It snowed just a tiny bit tonight.

My camera has been on the fritz so I’m using all my spare cash to replace my phone after about 5 years; refurbished stuff is all I ever buy so that gives you an idea how old the thing is.

Got to do a few fun tattoos today-

the owl is very small. the lighthouse was very fun (and is on a friend who farms!)

Will be working tomorrow too.

I’m going to likely be spending Monday trying to figure out how to revive the local Food Not Bombs, which seems like it’s currently defunct (I haven’t been able to do anything with them in over a year and lost track) so that should be an interesting day!

things that are like magic to me:

repairing mechanical things, electrical things, modern tech and programming, car repairs post 1995, taxonomy (plants), internet structure, building things like shelves, most power tools, how potholes get fixed.

things I understand enough to know they’re not magical:

the basic scientific method, tattoos (all related subjects), painting, drawing, writing, poetry, gardening, framing (construction AND art), composition, jokes, propaganda, plumbing, taxonomy (animal), internet constraints on expression, building things from scrap, trees.

everything else? could go either way really. dunno if it’s magic or process but interested in finding out. I love reading about everything I don’t know.

in the gutter, I can see the stars.

 

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