"What are you already doing? What else can you do? What are you doing together with others?"

As the soft-launch of civil war continues, I was able to take a few moments and make a poster for my Columbia pals Western Grip for their record release.

I’ve got a new shirt design for Giveashi*t! Proceeds benefit a good cause. giveashirt.net/products/a-p...

I made a linoleum relief print gig poster for Ben Melsky’s performance (and 40th birthday). Very cool to see/hear his experimental harp music live. This one is 8.5” x 14”, limited edition of 48.

I’ve got a couple new relief prints in my shop. Extra-nothing.com

I love relief printing. I’ll have a couple new ones in the shop soon. #artwork #printmaking

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

The Beginner’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Chicago 🪴 Here’s everything to know about starting a vegetable garden in the Windy City — and take our interactive quiz to learn what plants to grow in your garden: buff.ly/NuSKuQ3

If you’re in Chicago, you can see my work at the Backlot Coffee at Western and Montrose for the next several weeks. A few new pieces, a few old favorites. #art #extranothing

When you use AI, you are participating in a system that is being used to automate dehumanization on many levels. It decides where bombs are dropped, who the government should watch, and who should be locked away, or deported. It also steals from billions of artists every minute.

people love to say “existence is pain,” but what if it wasn’t? is this anything?

Another piece made from a drawing that’s a few years old. 18” x 24” toner transfer and graphite. #drawing #printmaking #imagetransfer #artwork

Okay, here’s this piece again but I went over all the lightest/missing parts in pencil. Really into this method of acetone and toner transfer to make big pieces at home. #printmaking #art #drawing #tonertransfer #acetonetransfer #extranothing

18” x 24” toner transfer of a new drawing I just finished called “internet kiosk.”

Nice to see everyone getting out to enjoy the sun in Chicago today!

Heck of a van I saw yesterday. A real chungus. Absolute unit.

Tribune editorial board stays bootlicking

A plan to turn Lincoln Square’s Diplomat Hotel into transitional housing got a $5.5 million TIF boost.

Finished the last flier for the Dismal Niche / Jazz Series Left Field shows today. Here’s all four:

yeah, been feeling this a lot. Aldi is the one shining light where I can buy groceries and not feel like I’m being robbed.

This is a drawing I felt compelled to make of the side of the Uptown Theater in Chicago. The patchwork nature of the repairs and mix of materials often stops me in my tracks when I pass it, and I like to imagine pigeons get in through a small hole somewhere and have an entire society in there.

Ghareeb Nawaz! Always delicious.

How much more shitty should we let things get before a General Strike is appropriate? I'll never forget how the Day Without Immigrants protest on February 16, 2017 ground my neighborhood in Chicago to a halt. Polish roofers stopped working on my roof. You couldn't eat anything worth eating.

Chicago, catching the light the other day.

oak galls & huckleberry witches broom. cyanotype toned with black walnut

I just checked mine and it was literally every single goddamn website I visit and went back for MONTHS I haven't logged onto Facebook in ages Just truly staggering shit

I made a maker’s mark for my friend Stephen who is a woodworker, among other things. The type is inspired by labor posters from Pullman in Chicago. 💪

Issue 14 of Fine Print is out now! Our featured artist is Tim Fite and our featured author is Justin Lacour. It was guest edited by Gion Davis. You can get a copy for the price of postage at fineprintpaper.com

a sticker design for @fineprintpress.bsky.social (very cool art newspaper, if you’re not familiar)

Chicago Alley. 12” x 12”