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Some texture for your Tuesday 🌀 texture & shape was inspired by a ceramicist I found, Jade Flowers. Also reminds me of the silk floss tree (Ceiba speciosa). Featuring some Matilija poppy (aka fried egg flower, Romneya coulter) • ||| • This piece revolves around the idea of dichotomies - things in opposition that inform each others distinction - destruction and growth, defensiveness and vulnerability, smooth and spiky, soft and hard. What else comes to mind? What would you name this piece?

Some line work for your Sunday ✍️💫🌿 which color background is your favorite? For me, something about the green background speaks to me - it’s giving pea soup & I’m kinda a fan 🫛💚

Flowy foliage | 16”x20” | I watched a video by artist David Choe about the artistic process and in it he said “I’m a human being, not a human doing” and it’s now stuck in my head. I’m trying to embrace the essence of being, while shifting expectations of productivity and associated anxiety of doing-ness. Creating has always been an outlet for me and a space for unadulterated feeling, but I do get in my head about it sometimes and I forget that the process is just as important as the result. So here’s some colorful musings that I released from my being. There’s something wonderful and daunting about creating, like here it is, a piece of me, a thing brought to life from me simply being me. ✨🎨

Portals of growth • 🌿❇️✨ • reflection, introspection, finding direction

New piece 💚🌿❇️ 14”x18” acrylic on stretched canvas | sold I infuse feelings into my art. Color to me, holds and portrays emotions. This piece was the first I sat down and worked on in a while. (Note about me, I’m always creating, I can’t not create, except when I’m struggling with my depression). I started out with dark base layers, blacks blues purples. And slowly, layer by layer, lifted the piece into the brighter green foliage and northern lights -esque sky you see now. The red twisting shapes feel like love to me, always present, but sometimes feels lost, hidden, engulfed in all the heaviness of the world. I don’t always narrate my art because I feel that the power of art is in its subjectivity. But I share this to give a piece of me, and to let you know that you are not alone. Things might feel bleak. The news overwhelming. I hope you give yourself the care and grace you deserve to continue navigating through. You cannot pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself.

Some portrait practice | 💕💜💙 | love is love is love | 16”x20” canvas

Chasing sunbeams 🌅 🌞 🌈 | A bit of a different creation process for me, chasing rainbows of light through time. Swipe through to see earlier versions of this piece and how/why it came to be. Life has been heavy in all its complexity, simplicity & sadness, watching the horrors unfold, the evil uncovered & witnessing, acknowledging shared complicity within these systems of power and oppression. Vive Palestina. / no pride in genocide / say no to pink washing

Something new, a little different : imagery came to me while meditating, a spiral of growth/evolution/ascendance, embracing circularity, deconstructing linearity. Felt a bit spiritual, otherworldly 🌀💠🕯️

Bend/break | new 16x20” painting | colorful chaos brings new growth and new sight, out of darkness comes lightness into life ✨❇️🌿💠〰️ (third photo not to scale… did I stick my painting onto a random stock wall? Sure did. But hey, see how nice it could look on your wall..;) (fourth photo = beginnings of this piece)

Happy rainy Sunday here in Tongva/Gabrielino land (LA)! Here’s a piece I made a few months ago ✨🌿🐟❇️🌱🤲🏼 💛 | acrylic, pastel, & a lil foil on stretched canvas | how does this piece make you feel? (a bit of a vent: IG STOP AUTO EDITING MY PHOTOS, they automatically overexpose and overbrighten my photos which is absolutely terrible and frustrating because it completely washes out my colors and details. Whenever I go in to edit the photos IG will automatically revert back to their shitty version. I eventually found a hack - upload when in low battery mode - but sheesh, this was annoying)

I am everything and nothing. A constant of change. I will wear this skin, this human robe, until I don’t. And that’s okay. Until then I will surrender to the Great Mystery within me, within you, within us. Tread softly, lead with grace, hold yourself with love. ||| some multimedia magic made with colored pencil, crayon, marker, pen, watercolor, gouache. There’s also some metallic watercolors that the camera didn’t pick up ✨

Some line-work for your Sunday ☀️〰️✍️

Push/pull 〰️💠〰️💠〰️💠 something colorful and gooey, a mindscape ocean, a candy landscape, pattern & movement, staccato rain & legato lines (plus some yum texture) [sold]

Something new 🕊️🪽🪶🪹 got a new paint palette from a friend and it’s kinda changing my painting game… highly recommend using a jewelry bead storage box as a sealable paint tray. Also trying to re-integrate texture in my paintings by digging back into my pastels. That’s all for now. Excited to complete and share more. 🫶🏼🌟✨

Freedom for P@lest!ne | I know the horror fatigue is real but that emotional labor and toll is a necessary fire for us all living in relative safety to hold onto, to continue fighting for the lives and rights of our fellow humans in occupied P@lest!ne. I know for a lot of my folks here, I’m preaching to the choir. Sure, geopolitics is complicated, but the erasure and re-writing of the current situation is intentional and strategic dismissal of the atrocities being carried out. Genocide in any cloak is still genocide.

What an honor to share my thoughts and perspective on being an artist and building a supportive environment for growing creatives 🌟🤗 read on for more discussion on kindness, supporting creative arts and some personal musings on life, meaning, and the impact of believing in people. Find the link to the interview in my bio linktr.ee ! 💛🫶🏼 [ canvasrebel.com/meet-xue-dimaggio/ ]