Lessons 2, 3 & 4 now done, and those initial pieces have been layered, cut up, and joined together as puzzle pieces. Here's how they all looked, a delightful not-quite mess. One lesson to go!#WIPWednesday

@jeffzugale Preach! Most of the successful artists I’m aware of are so because they rode the wave of various social media platforms' interest and hype over a decade ago. It’s literally less likely to be successful in today’s world than getting struck by lightning. I end up having to block or mute most of the more “famous” successful artists out there because their work is just so ubiquitous and I can’t escape it. It’s everywhere on all the platforms all the time. it feels like they just hired someone to spam it all over—they’re not actually present as users. I’d rather not support someone who is too busy to engage. I see others in field just as time consuming do it quite successfully (John Scalzi for example).Must be nice to be able to have the privilege of completely disengaging from the folks interested in what you make. Guess that’s not for us.

@josh I guess that’s what’s ultimately frustrating me.What’s FOSS for, ultimately, but to be used? If it can only get used by the FOSS community with no intention of bridging the gap to non-FOSS aficionados, isn’t that just navel-gazing?I’m desperate to use FOSS tools, but if everything is ultimately just going to be a development exercise it all just seems like so much hype. On a personal level, it’s exhausting to keep extending trust and investment in projects and platforms more interested in their function than their purpose. I’m starting to get disillusioned...

Paintings by Chinese artist Yu Hong, 2010s, who came of age at the end of the Cultural Revolution, among the "New Generation" of artists in China exploring new modes of creative expression.#art #painting #ContemporaryArt #BigArtThread