occupied cavities • 11” x 14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

“slow down, look around, drag yourself across the ground” @teaganwhite.bsky.social and my collaborative show is up now through november 4th at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, OR https://riverseagallery.com/slow-down-look-around-drag-yourself-across-the-ground

twig • branch • leaf three cyanotypes toned in black walnut, for my upcoming collaborative show with @jessenarens.bsky.social, opening October 11th at Riversea Gallery in Astoria OR

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Would they be able to get away with all this if we didnt have to go to work? Do work, rent and bills only exist to produce profit, or is it just as importantly a function of social pacification, punishment and control? Is the economy just about money, or is it also about power?

got a new batch of fabriano recently and it’s changed again — much thinner/floppier, different texture on both sides, and now the watermark is stamped backwards? anyone know what the “right” side is supposed to be now before i ruin a bunch of paintings?

broken grasp • 11”x14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

gastropod stickers for your aging laptops, slow n steady bikes, and cleaver-filled water bottles www.nucleusportland.com/products/tea...

fleeting artifacts • 9.5” x 9.5” • gouache & watercolor on paper my show false refuge is now online via nucleus portland www.nucleusportland.com/collections/...

work in progress for my show false refuge, opening this friday at Nucleus Portland

My show False Refuge opens in one week at Nucleus Portland! I’d love to see you at the opening 🤍

work in progress for my upcoming show False Refuge, opening September 12th at Nucleus Portland

don’t you love when the larva that lives in the reference-wood on your desk crawls out while you’re painting to say hello?

Took a bit of a break from drawing, was able to come back with a tree drawing. I found this tree standing with its rock in Cannock Chase Forest. Lots of beautiful ancient oaks still hanging around there and summertime is really beautiful in England, it’s hard not to draw it Graphite on paper

stick update

stick update

today i painted a stick

basting

Black Mandrakes 3 more on patreon

dawn / dusk

can’t stop thinking about garage door ivy deity

the river is gay

sssstill making work with my human hands

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

New Adobe Photoshop survey is up, it sure would be a shame if it was flooded with artists leaving anti AI sentiment survey.adobe.com/jfe/form/SV_...

the last loon will follow only echoes acrylic, pencil & oil pastel on wood 31"x36" 2018 this one happened after a trip to the boundary waters. also used some field recordings to make a song with the same title. https://jessenarens.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-loon-will-follow-only-echoes

Detail of a new painting, “Allelopathy”, for the group show In Shadow, opening tonight at Brassworks Gallery in Portland OR.

There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people: YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE. This truth alone should radicalize you. The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually help people.

wounded II (study) • graphite on moleskine and washi paper

trumps dystopia armed with the democrats' surveillance regime.

Growth.

more decay portraits 🕳️ these tiny 3”x3” originals are available through nucleus portland: nucleusportland.com/collections/...

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

tomorrow, feb 8th is the opening of microdose 5, a group show of all miniature art, at nucleus portland. i have 9 tiny paintings in the show

QRP with someone watery :)

i used to Walk Around And Look At Things because it made my art better. now it feels more like making art takes away from the time i have to do the actually-important work of Walking Around And Looking At Things