"apart" means separate from. "A part" means a portion of a whole. What the fuck English

April Fools day shouldn't be about pranks. It should be about being foolish. Be stupid today

Be weird. Be unpalatable to the masses. Be unmarketable.

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

I love horse eugenics game

I really can't stress enough how mindfulness (Zen) has helped my brain. If you suffer from the constant feeling of, "I should be doing something else right now," check out this very short sound byte. insig.ht/Ms87BUsVX1b

Be weird. Be unpalatable to the masses. Be unmarketable.

2025 9"x10" Acrylic, paint pen, spray paint, and colored pencil on paper mounted on reclaimed wood A luminous, dynamic being, sketched in a frenzy and crystallized into their most brilliant self. Available here: www.marandart.com/product/-away-from-grey-original/2SBOKKVTIDDHM2YZUNYDAXHL

2025 9"x10" Acrylic, paint pen, spray paint, and colored pencil on paper mounted on reclaimed wood A luminous, dynamic being, sketched in a frenzy and crystallized into their most brilliant self. Available here: www.marandart.com/product/-away-from-grey-original/2SBOKKVTIDDHM2YZUNYDAXHL

what if we got a 100% blockrate on it. what if they designed an AI and we unanimously said "nope"

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Ran a small Collage-A-Thon at my parent's neighborhood clubhouse. Had a decent turnout and I even got to make a collage myself: the Shiba Queen of Cheeses

Capitalism produces "kings". The men today are not special... They're just the first of many to come unless we destroy the system that built them.

The constitution is ineffective because it acts like it can be true that you can have a democracy and a capitalist economy. That the law treats people as equals when .01% of the country has the same wealth as half the planet

free-to-download poster for printing sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

I planned for a year of cool events with neat stuff and ceramics to share at cons but it doesn’t look like I’ll be accepted to a single event I applied for, haha … so I think I’ll be moving all my stuff online! Anything you’d be most excited for? I have so many ceramics in the works, phew

Capitalism produces "kings". The men today are not special... They're just the first of many to come unless we destroy the system that built them.

It's not info dumping, ok, it's called a loregasm

Happy #Coyote Day! From last year's Trash Book, now in the shop: "Coyote Yoga" 9"x12" Mixed media on paper

"Well Behaved Despite Herself" Raku fired earthenware, 2.5" tall Because of their fear of "misbehaving", they never explored or developed a feeling of safety, but instead developed performance anxiety. The hole in her body mirrors the copper circle on her head… her halo reflects her lack.

Inspired by this post, I have made a new tier on Patreon for anyone that wants to fund our art, farming, habitat restoration, and activism. www.patreon.com/c/Maranda/me...

Did you know kintsugi, fixing broken pottery with gold, began as a Zen story? The pieces fell into place. "A slowflake never falls in the wrong place," after all. She's more beautiful for having been broken. And like this sculpture, with the right tools, we can heal, too.

When you make ceramics, you have to accept the fact that you'll lose some pieces in the kiln. The kiln gods request their sacrifices. Sometimes, the happenstance makes it cool... This wiggle, meditating in full lotus, popped while bisque firing. She broke into dozens of pieces.

There she is! I finally got a chance to meet the 1700 Cascadia tsunami sand layer in person (along with several older tsunami layers). Felt a bit like meeting a celebrity, or maybe a god... a thrilling and chilling reminder of what came before and what will, inevitably, come for us again.

Will be dealing at @lasvegasfurcon.org next weekend, table q13! Come find us for a free Bazteki crow sticker ✨

When you make ceramics, you have to accept the fact that you'll lose some pieces in the kiln. The kiln gods request their sacrifices. Sometimes, the happenstance makes it cool... This wiggle, meditating in full lotus, popped while bisque firing. She broke into dozens of pieces.

I haven't purchased a video game in over a decade. But @zhublue.bsky.social brought Horsey Game over yesterday... and now I'm on pain meds for a removed wisdom tooth... so now... horseyyyssss

Inspired by this post, I have made a new tier on Patreon for anyone that wants to fund our art, farming, habitat restoration, and activism. www.patreon.com/c/Maranda/me...

now i am my own daughter . digital etching. love your child self, they still are the deepest part of you.

I'd give lino prints + patches away for free. I'd make art for local organizations for free. I'd make large, weird paintings more often... and give them to people or cool orgs. More sculpture, more collage, more more more. SO much of my time is spend doing admin work or producing merch to sell.

haha

if you watch and support the new harry potter show you are funding trans genocide globally by the way

"Well Behaved Despite Herself" Raku fired earthenware, 2.5" tall Because of their fear of "misbehaving", they never explored or developed a feeling of safety, but instead developed performance anxiety. The hole in her body mirrors the copper circle on her head… her halo reflects her lack.

I second ALL of this I always complained “there’s NOTHING here” There usually IS I just wasn’t looking Now I’m involved and it does a lot for that part of my brain that feels hopeless

In only one year, Echo and I have gone from absolutely 0 community interaction to volunteering with climate groups, attending (and joining!) citizen committees, making public comment at county and state level, and participating in local Pride event planning. We showed up ONCE and now we're here.

"bro is this fetish art 😭" anything and everything you will ever interact with is someone's fetish. someone wants to fuck clouds. someone's horniest thought is to be a branch on a tree. someone's going to fuck a salt shaker. someone wants to fuck math. someone did. his name was albert einstein

They look so COOL at this stage! But they're SO HOT!

A local yote painted by a local artist! This one's from @marandart.bsky.social bringing some more strong pacific northwest vibes here. Love the vibrant colors and (i'm a plant nerd, okay) attention to detail on the juvenile Douglas Fir

Happy #Coyote Day! From last year's Trash Book, now in the shop: "Coyote Yoga" 9"x12" Mixed media on paper

"Runic Cervid Bowl" 🦌 One of my favorite early ceramics we made... @echomary.bsky.social threw the vessel and marked its rim with the molars of a deer. Then we glazed it with sunspot raku glazes to get the metallic reduction. The deep crevices contain spots of rainbow--it's absolutely magical.

We barely do anything but chill on the land, make art, and volunteer in the community. We want time to make things, not money to spend. It's lean and unpredictable. We almost never eat restaurants/takeout, we try to only buy thrift/clearance, and weigh EVERY purchase based on need vs want.

"Runic Cervid Bowl" 🦌 One of my favorite early ceramics we made... @echomary.bsky.social threw the vessel and marked its rim with the molars of a deer. Then we glazed it with sunspot raku glazes to get the metallic reduction. The deep crevices contain spots of rainbow--it's absolutely magical.

just had to obliterate my two scheming viziers

Echo takes a pic of this exotic terrain on highway 101 every time we pass it. We have basalt at home! But this is the ✨special✨ basalt.

Next in the deep dive of 'Sylvan Song' is the creation the beetles. I use Paperclay in a lot of my pieces, a material I discovered in my 20s. It's very light when it dries. My beetles are stream-of-consciousness. I start with a rough oval blank and just keep adding bits and bobs until I'm satisfied.

An early miniature ceramics microwave kiln experiment, Sad Clown Puppy broke basically every leg they had... but don't worry, I glued a bunch of plastic shit to them, so they're okay now.

Visible mending: I fixed this thing and I'm proud! I value my material objects in this throwaway world, fuck you companies!

Visible mending: I fixed this thing and I'm proud! I value my material objects in this throwaway world, fuck you companies!