1artplease
Making to see. Repetition without meaning. Thoughts arrive after the marks.
Daily practice. Trying.
Mixed media on whatever’s nearby.
- Part of my ongoing series exploring repetition, memory, and the slow cycle of depression. I keep returning to the same forms, not to find something new, but to see how meaning shifts as I change. Some things only make sense after you’ve lived with them long enough.
- I think depression can be a type of greed. Nothing is ever enough.
- I'm excited to share that my piece Blue Drift has been selected for Creative Dose, a group exhibition by Artist Alliance at Ashton Gallery in North Park, San Diego. Creative Dose Ashton Gallery, North Park January 10 - February 6, 2025 Opening Reception: January 10, 4:00-7:00 PM
- Is it better to be alone with people or by yourself?
- Some thoughts after the critique at OAM. Art is work, and I want to treat it professionally. Sometimes I hide my insecurity/incompidance inside chaos.
- I’ve rejected parts of the art world, and selling work, as a way of protecting myself. For the most part, I like the work I’m making. I want to share it. Praise makes me uncomfortable, but I still want connection, belonging, and to be taken seriously.
- this is a new work in progress on digging it so far.
- Love Me Like War Is it done? I don’t know. Feedback is appreciated.
- I heard someone on a podcast say that humans exist to create meaning. Art is work, and work is art. Art becomes the most abstract kind of work and the most representational expression of meaning.
- I’m excited to be one of the artists in the Artist Alliance Juried Critique at OMA on Dec 9, 6–9pm. It’s free and open to the public—come hang out and see some great work. #ArtAtOMA
- Just creating things this morning with some coffee. I’ve been thinking about how much I love art that feels simple on the surface—big color fields, simple shapes, the beauty of restraint. That kind of art has always felt powerful to me.
- But when I’m making things, I struggle to stop. I keep adding, shifting, and repeating. Part of me wishes I could hold back more, and part of me hopes that the repetition is where my work actually starts to emerge.
- I worry sometimes that the repetition might be a crutch and that I’m trying to hide my incompetence and complexity. I’m trying to trust that the process itself creates something beyond me—a thing that appears because I showed up and let it happen.
- writing about art I think I’ve stumbled onto some new idea/process/theory, I Google it and realizeit’s not new at all. & there’s this mix of feelings sad that it’s not original, but also a little impressed that I found my way to something other people have already worked through What's that called?
- I started this by writing the same phrases over and over until they disappeared, then added shapes until something finally felt meaningful. I’m trying to let the work emerge on its own instead of forcing a message. #art #mixedmedia #contemporaryart #abstractart #processart
- Experimenting with ink, rubbing alcohol, and varnish to build up/destroy layers. I really like where it landed, it doesn’t mean anything, and that’s kind of the point. Any feedback would be appreciated.
- Feeling really good today, also feeling like I just want to drink coffee and make art.
- Just a fragment from a larger piece I’ve been sitting with for a while. I kept repeating the same phrase until it disappeared—layer after layer, it became something else. Trying to stay inside the process, not the outcome.
- Making art feels like drowning in sand—slow, heavy, impossible to move. But it’s still the only thing I want to do. #contemporaryartist #fineartpractice #mixedmediaartist #artprocess #conceptualar
- Memory Shapes Memory Shapes explores depression, memory, and repetition as ways of rebuilding meaning. Layers of torn paper and paint echo the struggle to feel, heal, and find beauty in what remains unresolved. #mixedmediaart #abstractexpression #contemporaryartist #collageartwork
- Enjoying that place where I can see the darkness but don’t have to be in it. I can feel alone but not lonely. #somuchnothing #mixedmediaart #abstractexpression #mentalhealthart
- Sometimes it’s embarrassing to admit that you’re growing.
- some mornings feel like i’m trapped in a block of gel—everything’s slow and distorted. but even when it feels like i’m not moving, i know the struggle itself is still progress. hashtags: #oneartplease #artprocess #movingthroughit #artistthoughts #slowprogress
- dance with your demons — it’s more fun than fighting them
- feeling good lately. it’s strange—when i feel good, it’s harder to reach the part of me that makes art. trying to let that go and just enjoy making shapes. #oneartplease #artprocess #abstractart #mixedmedia #modernart
- I will be fine. True. I will be fine. False. I will keep moving forward trying/not trying to see and feel the pain of others. I will be fine. But I want to be more than fine.
- Lately, I’ve felt a little stuck making art. It’s been hard to get started. But once I do, I end up liking where it goes, even if I’m not sure what it’s about.
- I know hope is out there, but it’s hard to put the pieces together.
- the lies i believe aren’t theirs they’re mine bent truths shadows i choose to hide my face in self-hate #contemporaryart #emergingartist #mixedmediaart
- i want less less thinking less feeling i don’t want to know i don’t want tomorrow or yesterday i want now #thejoyofsemiconsciousness #somuchnothing #quietmind #slowdown #presenttense #artwork #mixedmedia #emotionalart #intuitivemarks #oneartplease
- Peace feels fragile. Every time I start again, I wonder… now? A cycle of depression, self-sabotage. I know I’ll start again, but the cycles are starting to leave marks. #oneartplease #mixedmediaart #abstractexpression #mentalhealthart #emotionalart
- Sometimes self-talk feels like it’s pulling me in two directions at once. Trying to sit with that tension instead of running from it. #LoveMeFuckYou #contemporaryart #rawart #artprocess #abstractexpressionism
- Work in progress I keep going back-and-forth from loving it and hating it.
- I’ll be fine I’m not them Only the bad ones
- I’m turning old scraps into business cards, but I also really like how this looks.
- Blue Drift — mixed media (mail, paper bags, acrylic paint); 19 × 10.5 in #mixedmediaart #abstractexpressionism #markmaking
- Ssshhh
- I had a good conversation. #mixmedia #art #artoftheday #SoulBag #NeoExpressionism #ContemporaryCollage #TextBasedArt #RawMarkMaking
