Biz
SOLD
it'll fall asleep right in your pocket
Wombo
SOLD
He's just trying to get by, you know?
This marks a turning point for my work.I'd wrapped a pretty successful irl market season the last year and was hoping to ride some trends to make some loveable bugs. They did ok, they weren't super inspired by any means but they were cute enough.
I could feel the clutches of capitalism tightening around me. My creative desires and my selling sensibilities were battling each other for dominance in my craft. I'd found, throughout my art """career""" that when I compromised my vision - when I tried to make something with mass appeal that I didn't care much about - people would not buy it. It might be an autism thing but I just can't seem to connect to people if I'm explicitly trying to do so.
Hard as it was, after a few less-than-stellar markets in 2024, I shifted to pursuing the art more than pursuing money. My social media algorithm sensed my shame and discomfort of prioritizing myself and started to feed me an endless parade of people more successful and faster and smarter and sexier than I was...I stopped using Instagram and started pouring my time into this site and making art and making a website that I actually thought was cool.
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