Lestat, Louis, And Armand, All As Variations Of Pierrot. Done With Molotow And Posca Paint Pens, And

Caela by Liturgy

72"x13.5", synthetic and natural fibers, vinyl tubing, 2024

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This piece came about as an attempt to visually depict how I experience music. Possibly due to my Autism, I do not seem to listen to/experience music the way other people I have discussed this topic with experience music. I recognize that there is an underlying meter, a rhythm, a beat, that allows a person to "follow the music;" the beat is also what people follow when they dance. I can force myself to identify and follow a beat, but it requires significant concentration on my part, is not what comes naturally to me, and is not how I enjoy listening to music. My attention often skips back and forth between different sounds, following the bass sounds for several moments because I enjoy that specific section, then switching focus to the crescendo of a violin, to the sound of the singer's voice, the drums, back to violin, bass, voice, a new sound.

By connecting colors, patterns, and material to specific aspects of a musical piece, I have attempted to create a depiction of my experience of the music.

(I also decided to leave the edges of the different photos I took, to give an impression of the number of images needed to create a decent representation of this weaving.)

I’m one million years behind the times and only just started playing Dragon Age: Origins.

Here is my Dalish Grey Warden, Nissim.

I haven’t *seriously* used color pencils since about middle school, so this is an interesting learning curve.

My Etsy: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK

I’ve decided this will actually be my test weave... gonna start the whole thing over because I have brainworms.

All this work and I’ve concluded I’m gonna have to cut it up to harvest some of the yarn for the next one! The custom multicolor yarns that I made. The issue is those plain weave sections are uhhhh almost 4 ft long. If I reduce the number of picks, I can reduce the length of the plain weave section by half and have a lot more room for cool stuff.

Doing insane shit with string today

currently sick

dreamed that me and two girls that I went to middle school with were recording a song, reading the lyrics from a dark blue book with glowing white letters. don't remember the lyrics.

dreamed that there was a huge block party going on in my neighborhood, with tents set up all over and one of those janky ferris wheels. I decided that I wanted a milkshake and a burger. Every restaurant that I went to was getting held up by a delusional man with a shotgun. Every single one. Same guy, too. I'd leave and go to the next restaurant and he'd have moved on to hold that store up. I just really wanted a milkshake.

Part of some sort of giant videogame world. Built like one of those marble tunnel toys. Riding the marble down a spiral slide. Giant monster crushing the marble tunnel world. Water is rising faster.

I keep sleeping through the curtains falling out of the window frame and on top of me.

Getting close to done!

My Etsy:LINK / My Society6:LINK / My Ko-Fi:LINK

A few years back (maybe 3?) I saw your couples therapy comic and I spoke about it with my own therapist and went "wow, that was a lot of violence on kids in those cartoons and it was downplayed normalized." And in turn helped me realize that my own issues with my parents were downplayed and normalized. I'm in a much better place and I wanna say thanks for helping, in the small way you did just by sharing your comic with tumblr.

Thank you for messaging me! I'm glad to hear you're in a better place and I hope therapy was beneficial to you. Whether it's from a therapist or from a friend, it can be really important to have another person validate that what you went through WASN'T okay.

My scanner is morally opposed to my use of highlighter markers and my camera phone is only a bit better.

A trilogy of night shift doodles in my teeny tiny moleskine.

A fellow artist once told me "I thought you were drawings hands wrong, but I realized that you were drawings hands that look like your hands."

I guess my hands are a bit odd. Most of the joints on my fingers are hyperextended. Most people's fingers taper, with the fingertip being the narrowest. My fingertips are actually wider and fleshier than the rest of my finger joints.

My Etsy: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK

I have created a Rug.

it is cat-approved

A hallway rug, made with yarn from old t-shirts. It’s roughly 8ft long and took about a day to make. I’ve decided it’s too narrow, so I’m gonna make a second and then sew them together down the middle.

Short king problems.

chipsandsalsalove: I would prefer batches, but whatever works best for you!

arinrowan: which option will give you more of a dopamine hit?

Batches it is, then!