I disappeared. Apparently for 4 years.
It's been...a bizarre few years. Lots of weird. Lots of stress. I've been getting things back on track lately, or as on track as I can get them, what with being a neurotic artist type.
So, what's been going on for the past 4 years?
I've still been making stuff. (I'll probably post new things I've been working, if I don't post this and immediately forget and vanish for another 3 years.)
My brain is dumb. I have accepted this and am learning to live with it.
I got a shitload of tattoos (all my own designs of course)
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Interesting things currently happening in the world of Savage Goldfish:
--Doing a lot of interesting volunteer work lately. Working night shift affords some more free time (sort of) for things of that nature. Working in a botanical garden, as well as a museum's specimen collection. The museum is filled with all sort of fascinating, ghastly things that are serving wonderful inspiration for my otherwise atrophied artistic motivation.
--I have no more fish, (R.I.P., Boson, dear old goldfish of 13 years) but I have been overrun by plants. Orchids! Bromeliads! Cactuses up to the eyeballs! But mostly carnivorous plants. They are awesome and I enj
Winter is always a crappy time for me. I get the seasonal depression/winter BLAHS! rather badly and kind of crawl under a rock by about mid winter. I've got a stack of resin casts waiting to be prepped for painting, but winter makes it difficult to do that too, especially with no garage or basement to work in. Not about to sit outside with a dremel in a polar vortex! (And forget spraying primer on 'em) With the days getting longer now though, motivation is creeping back. Savage Goldfish are solar-powered.
I did take the opportunity this winter to pick up a new hobby though--carnivorous plants. Particularly Nepenthes pitcher plants--I have th