ARTISTS: We can ALL use this reminder! It's easy to get caught up in selling and lose sight of the PASSION. Always keep that FIRE!! Always...
COLLECTORS: You matter so much to us Independent Artists.
When you BOOST/FOLLOW or COLLECT our art, it allows us the ability to work on our craft. Priceless!
40something #Creative#GenX#INFJ#Freelance#GraphicDesigner in the #UK recovering from the design industry. Enjoying figuring myself out. Determined to be happy. I’m going to finally be myself here.
Like it when things line up. Proud but exhausted parent. Cracked egg. My best friends are all computers.
Hello world - I've just joined and trying to find friends. I'm an #artist generally working between #communityart and #soundart. I'm into #feminism and experimenting with the #creative possibilities of #hamradio. I'm also a #PhD student studying #listening. Please say hello if our interests overlap! :)
Guess I should probably do an #introduction! Names Alex (they/ze). I'm a university student currently studying #English and #Creative Writing in hopes of being an author one day! I'm currently residint on the east coast of Turtle Island. I enjoy #crocheting, #knitting, drinking #tea, and #vampires. Would love to follow queer #artists and other queer #creatives on here!
I have been banned and censored by TikTok, libeled by influencers in the publishing world with lies, dishonored and smeared when I won an award for my creative work, and have had armies of assholes delete all references to me and my work on Wikipedia. A major corporate media company even stole the name and the logo of a creative project I have put years of my life into.
And yet I keep returning like a stubborn phoenix.
Will there ever come a time in which I get a modicum of respect? Probably not. But at least I tell the truth and I live and create entirely on my own terms. And that's worth more than all the fame and influence in the world.
I'm sure there are many people, far smarter and more talented than I am, who are in the same boat. Try to throw the troublemakers and the misfits a bone now and then. I always do.
Intro Postscript: I think about and type my posts in REAL TIME. I write poetry when I post. I don't automate anything. I actually ENJOY being on M'don. I've met so many WONDERFUL people! I never use generative programs. I actually ENJOY creating art BY HAND. I paint, collage, sculpt and design. Comments, Follows and Boosts always appreciated!
I'm particularly interested in #choice and problem architecture and #systemic cognition: how different behavioural and cognitive designs interact with sight, and imagination to produce #judgments, #decisions, and #creative insights and impact behaviours.
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