Gloam
@Jen3nfer
Artist | Silversmith | Designer | Human
Meanwhile, My next art market is on August 10 at Bad Astronaut once again. In the thick of the dog days. Autumn can’t come soon enough. "Visions of Autumn" by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953).
To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise. © Emilia Wickstead
𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 another solarplate intaglio photo print by Barry Ebner (1960-).
I went down a rabbit-hole looking at pictures of old abandoned mansions and buildings in my city on the outskirts and suburbs. Some used to be owned by drug cartel lords that were seized, supposedly ‘haunted’ and others like the Palace of Golden Orbs (a Taoist temple) were never…
These images by Chinese artist Liu Bolin, are playful but haunting - they speak of historical erasure.
I've gone back to writing by hand and sketching. There's a cultural movement in-the-making here - a reaction against AI. Artists, writers, creators are going back to rediscover core skills that we had before the net and AI. Rediscovering them before we lose them!
Lately, I've been enjoying a much more "basic" life. Sketching on paper just for fun. Drawing perspective freehand. Using round brush instead of 5000 brush packs. It's not about the skills. It's about remembering what it feels like to be grounded in reality.
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. —August Strindberg
"Tree and Ruins" (Arbre et ruines) by Gérard Jan (French 1961-). Monotype print
"The Mad House, after Goya" 2024 by Andy Denzler (1965-). Oil on canvas.
𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 solarplate intaglio photographic print by Barry Ebner (1960-).
Since there's been a rash of artists harassed by ai prompters spitting their work back out them, this is a good time to remind folks Glaze exists to protect against style mimicry - at the very least. If you wanna go further, use Nightshade then Glaze as a final step. 100% free
"The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not." –Zhuangzi 📷 "Outlines" 2024 by Elizabeth Blackie.