dur gallery

There's not too much here cause I still hafta go through my art and decide what to share. Also, I haven't made as much art as I'd like to, but I've been getting more into it and putting more free time towards it when I can, so expect more in due time!!! Thanks :p
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I call this 'Last Spasm'
It was made in a moment when I was really just so incredibly overwhelmed with too many things personally and the weight of the world and a mental tsunami of new awareness of horrors; so, it spawned sporadically, with freedom to flow and channel that fear, hate, and desperate hope I was holding heavily.

one of my two halloween pumps for 2024.
it's Ichigo from Katamari!!

DECEMBER '24

NOVEMBER '24

a picture of a house with a lake behind it.

me in front of my monitor with peculiar sunglasses on being blown away by camera flash

my friend's cat sitting very very politely (i call him olimar cause their dog is named louie)

post-halloween-party decor

OCTOBER '24

part of a Diwali celebration at my school, she was doing a really awesome dance!

a pumpkin of one of my OC's :D

what they said!

my doggies forming a heart :] (also with a watermelon at the bottom, as though symbolic!!)

sin control de malezas/no weed control sign

(text from a school project):
The greenhouse at Scottsdale Community College (SCC), which I feel exemplifies a culture of love and preservation.
I don't go to SCC, just was there for an event, but when compared to the other Maricopa CCs, they have a much more developed study and "fanbase" of native plants and sustainable foodways like Permaculture and Indigenous stewardship, which are generally very counter to the Western world’s ideals & systems.

Their greenhouse is growing all sorts of plants that are native to the Sonoran Desert, and also harbors tons of important little experiments.
This greenhouse is also the starting point of many of the plants sold in their semiannual native plants sale (the only one in Phoenix)!

They’ve built an inspiring group at that school for people who love native plants, along with the hope they bring, the justice they restore to our world, and the beauty they harbor that is not seen by the majority of people and that is actively destroyed by things like industrial agriculture & climate change.

my dresser with alarm clock, kirby's bracelets, etc.

my friend's cat Sago!

sign that's missing words and only says belly

rip claudia spray-painted electrical box

(text from a school project):
This is an electrical box I saw on my walk to school one day that I had missed the bus and had to walk a new path. On this path were so many remnants of scattered lives—a shoe missing the sole, food & diaper wrappers, broken glass, and a letter.

This letter in all is four pages, and I don’t feel that it’s my place to share all its details, but it is a man writing to someone close to him who scammed him and took a phone that he desperately needs. He talks about how tempting and easy it would be to end his life at any moment, how nobody would even notice. I don’t know what happened to him, I don’t know when he wrote the letter or if the person ever received it, and, similarly with the electrical box, I don’t know Claudia or what happened to her.

The culture here is a culture of the homeless, and specifically the homeless in “America”, where they are often (and even increasingly) treated like a plague that many people wish they just “didn’t have to look at” or think about. These people have a culture all of their own, they almost always have friends or connections, they have inside jokes, stories to tell, and they have complications and inspired beliefs like us all.
We are all so much closer to these people than we are to any millionaire, and many people seem to forget that.

These people are failed by our government, and face so many mile-high barriers to life’s basic needs & rights, especially those who are non-white, disabled, struggle with mental problems, or face addiction. They are always dished a confusing, berated path back to a capitalist “normalcy” that only wants a very specific version of them (and us all) to succeed, and are further shunned if they don’t gladly accept & thank any meager offer of amends.

SEPTEMBER '24