Needed this reminder today.

I’m sorry I’m late on emails I’m too busy having my will to live/do anything crushed by this very very petty sociopathic homicidal country. (Just kidding I won’t live long anyway when I lose my healthcare 😊)

How we feeling everybody?? I’m filled to the goddamn brim #anxiety #nervous #stickershop

THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Everything I’ve learned about labubu is against my will, and I will never never ever ever ever understand the hysteria. Just another strata laying itself above the funkos and the fidget spinners in the Anthropocene landfill. If you were hysterical about these fried beetles?? I get it

Finally getting this “Light In The Darkness” 8x10 reprinted - this painting was done in the depths of 2021 when I really needed something to center myself when recovering from surgery gone VERY wrong. Hard to imagine now, but feralcatbox.com/store if you need a little light in your life. #artprint

Infinite sardine head spell in watercolor and gouache. 🐟🐟🐟🐟

Super springy and summery feeling with these queen lime zinnias and squash blossoms from a couple summers ago - a flower you do NOT want to freehand draw on, I assure you. I will never get tired of black snakes weaving through tattoos. #tattoos

I remember when I first did this, it hit the Explore page on IG - huge amounts of comments about how disgusting this was (as a roach, I mean yes, polarizing choice) and sexist comments about how a woman could do this to themselves. Not a single comment was like this from my actual followers 🧵

Two day session of linework for this full leg piece! I keep telling myself to “simplify my tattoos” and it increasingly appears impossible. #shediditthehardway #tattooing

Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage

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Artists, I’m completely split: do you hang your own artwork in the studio that you’ve made it in? Or things that you’re inspired by? My (art) studio walls are bare for this reason, but I feel like I should bring my artwork to the tattoo studio where people actually see it.

In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action. Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Been looking back on my archive: In a way, my largest Torchbearer tattoo, and certainly my oldest - finished back in 2014/15 (I think!?) several lifetimes ago, but the image has always been rattling around in my brain. Still remains one of my largest b&g tattoos to this day! #illustration #tattoo

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

This is the kinda place we can talk about our dreams right? “guy I went to middle school with made a giant terracotta ovipositor”

I don’t know how these can become MORE relevant but everyday is a new horizon of horror.

Coverups are always a fun challenge, but I do take pride and always honored to cover a tattoo done by a jerk (or in this case, JK Rowling) - crouching mean lil junco torchbearer bird.

Really appreciate all of you who have followed me here, so if you haven’t expressed your love for fish or having anxiety, use code “BLUESKY” in the store for 25% off til Sunday. 🐟❤️ #tinnedfish #art

Langston Hughes

Year of the Really Big Snake and unreal looking (but very real) chrysanthemums. Drawing this leg sleeve directly onto my client takes hours, but I used stencils for the centers of the chrysanthemum. This wraps almost fully around the leg! Lining took ~8 hours. #tattoo #illustration #art

I love that Chris finds his news by people requesting tattoos of current events 30 seconds after they happen.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

Everyone, meet Sarah La Puerta - a calligraphy (word, music, poetics, mysteries) artist - criminally under appreciated and overall delight

I’m sorry, I’m having trouble taking this app seriously because I have been stifled by “professionalism” for so long that I desperately missed broadcasting every dumb thought and observation into the mysterious ether of humanity. 🙃

This first half hour of this documentary is really speedrunning to Jonestown with hilarious sweeping generalities.

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

When you’ve renovated a house, and have a partner with museum level drywall skill - staying at airbnbs is borderline intolerable unless you can make a game of finding the worst DIY job in the place. (A nearly 5 star reviewed place somehow?)

Been such a sweet group of clients for my guest spot in Baltimore at Transmission Tattoo - love a city that gets shit on regularly from outsiders but has a deep (weirdo) pride. An American Dipper Torchbearer (a new bird to me!) #art #tattoos #birders

Some really goopy tuna eyeballs that didn’t get much air time last year, I made a LOT of work in a push to fill out two gallery shows and forgot to show the internet - gouache and watercolor on paper, about 9”x12”

For no particular reason I’m posting these bumper stickers that I sell. 100% of the money gets donated to mutual aid projects and they raised over $900 last year.

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I think he’s talking about bluesky #skytok

Stencil for a new fun and weird one! Will be done with 3 colors only in a more “traditional” style (if I can keep myself under control).

Please share your favorite BlueSky accounts! I need to follow more people (and artists and creative people and generally radically authentic human weirdos) after suffering the TikTok dopamine cut off.

I suppose I should change my profile pic to ✨something serious✨ to convey that I am a ✨serious artist✨ on the ✨dead Internet✨

My painting “Heads Or Tails” for Moleskine Project XII @spoke-art.com in San Francisco - you can see my piece and a ton of other really talented people at Minnesota Street Project until January 25th! Painted with pencil and gouache.

It’s me, on my umpteenth social media network trying to promote my artwork - but losing the will everyday. So, uh I made this enamel pin? #pingame