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vaxolang · 6 months

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"Burning alive"

Acrylic painting on canvas

Size 50x35 cm

#vaxo lang #creepy art #creepy #contemporary art #contemporary artist #acrylic painting #horror art #vaxolang #dark art #horror #burning #burning man #burning alive #portrait #macabre expression

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geracaoalpha · 2 years

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Alphaa.io Speaks with Artist Laura Kimpton About Mental Health, Mindfulness, and Creativity

Laura Kimpton is a California-based mixed media artist and activist with a lifelong dedication to supporting mental health initiatives. Kimpton uses her background in psychology and art education to create uplifting messages that directly engage her viewers. She is inspired by her personal experience overcoming trauma and growing up with dyslexia. “Being a dyslexic person, you’re very aware of how important words are to people, so I do these very large monumental words,” she says.

Laura recently partnered with Alphaa.io for Mental Health Awareness Month to create an NFT to raise money for Blue Fever, a mental health platform for Gen Z, as well as for the nonprofit Mental Health America.

Believe: Burning Man 2014, Laura Kimpton

She comes up with her creative ideas through daydreaming and is a process oriented artist who is continually exploring new mediums. She is one of the most well-known artists at Burning Man and is a six-time recipient of Burning Man’s Honorarium Grant. She is best known for her Monumental Word Series that features large scale word sculptures such as Believe, Dream, Love, and Ego.

Kimpton has a Masters in Psychology and worked as an art teacher for over 15 years. Her work explores psychology and her personal experience with PTSD and shares a universal message of love and acceptance.

Laura Kimpton's immersive art installation Dream with Me will be installed at Burning Man 2022. Alphaa.io has partnered with Kimpton to create NFTs related to the physical piece to raise funds for the interactive structure.

We joined Laura Kimpton to talk about the impact of mental health on her art and why it is so important to create from the heart.

How has your relationship with mental health evolved over time and what is the most important message? Have there been things you have learned that have changed the way you think about mental health?

Laura Kimpton: Everyone is suffering with some type of mental health issues, so I want people to know they are not alone and that everyone is affected by mental health and now it is safe to talk about it. In the past it was more looked down upon, but now in 2022 we can talk about mental health more easily. Covid brought up trauma for a lot of people so almost everybody’s mental health was affected in one way or another.

Do you think that artists help open that door by creating works that might be minimal or abstract but still touch on mental health and offer an entry point to concepts that might be darker?

Laura: One hundred percent. Especially for creative people because we are right brainers. When I was growing up I was told that something was wrong with me because I was dyslexic. Now I know that my dyslexia is my genius. Art is a way for people to express themselves. I was an art teacher for at risk kids and creativity is how I helped them get their emotions out.

How can art help youth express feelings that are maybe too complicated or taboo for them to say outright?

One thing is that kids spend eight hours a day in a linguistic world and a mathematical world framed around learning about other things rather than self expression. Art does not have to be factually exact to what you are expressing. A lot of my art is very emotion-based, I’m not saying exactly what happened to me. Art can be a healing way to express childhood traumas. I’ve learned that talking about it outright can be way more difficult than creating art.

The year I created “Believe” was the year my daughter turned 16 and became more independent, getting in cars with 16 year old boys. And when you suffer from PTSD one thing is sometimes it’s very hard to deal with fear of the unknown or loss of control. So I kept repeating the mantra to myself “believe, believe, believe.” You just have to believe. Worry doesn’t help, positivity helps. Art is the way I have survived in a very linguistic world and how I have processed my family trauma.

Can you explain why it is so important for youth to use art as a creative outlet that is attached to a deeper meaning?

My favorite saying I tell myself all the time is that it’s about the process not the product. When I make my digital collages it can take 72 hours and when I’m working, I’m not worrying or doing anything else. It is a meditative state. When I worked with kids it was very much about making them feel safe and empowered to create. I encouraged them to not make art for others but to instead make art that stems from the meditative process. Also teens need to know that every teen is going through something. There is so much emphasis now about getting acceptance online instead of just expressing yourself.

Especially now with our attention going in so many directions it is so important just to be mindful. How do you incorporate mindfulness into your art and your teaching?

When kids who are making art start to doubt themselves, I remind them of my mantra: ‘It’s about the process not the product.’ And I say that a thousand times over in my head when I’m making art and I’ve been making art for over thirty years. Affirmations are very helpful for my personal practice, like ‘be kind’ or ‘be art.’

#public art #burning man #burning man art #burning man artist #sculpture #laura kimpton #burning man sculpture #alphaaio #alphaa #geracaoalpha #art

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blondeaxolotl · 7 months

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Sighs, got inspo to draw them after seeing @nullbutler 's post about them, of all pairs, these two were the least I expected to end up drawing together but here we are

Here's the post in question, the ✨inspiration and motivation✨:

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cokowiii · 1 year

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“ShellteredAu”

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Im back!!! Well I kinda didn’t leave but I kinda did but HERES THE FIRST TWO PAGES OF THE NEW AU IDEA THING I HAD!!!

Imma be fiddling with the style and try backgrounds but here’s the first pages! Like a cute lil intro kinda thing I guess lol

Gimme y’all’s thought! I’d love to hear them and answer some (not all) questions! I’ll be posting this comic hopefully twice a week!

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martyryo · 2 months

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drawing made with the reference I searched up on the computer inside my headspace

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #fight club #fight club 1999 #the narrator fight club #doodle #pixel aesthetic #something quick before I clean my room #I wanna redraw this at some point by using actual reference hdhwbrvw #pained man whimpering on the floor #we love that #felt my hand burning while drawing this it was an immersive experience #reminds me when I was on the bus and I imagined myself crucified #I physically cringed cause I could kida feel the pain of having nails digging into my flesh #very uncomfortable

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r04dk1llx2 · 5 days

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Meat the artist 🥩

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fatinhadesiners06 · 1 month

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Fanart from "J-Hutch Characters on a road trip...thogether"

OK.....this was supposed to be just a fanart and it ended up being a whole comic ;^; So @stop-talking made a post called "J-Hutch Characters on a road trip...thogether".

I loved the concept so I decided to draw the comic!

It's not the best thing ever draw and perspective is my weak point, but I tried!!!

(open and scroll the images for better quality)

I hope you like it (especially @stop-talking 🌟 ) and it was really fun to draw this comic!!! (ah, English is not my native language, I'm using Google translate 🤙)

Post original de @stop-talking

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soullesssketches13 · 6 months

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INKTOBER DAY 31 : FIRE

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cuterefaction · 6 months

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Trektober Day 23, "Lockdown". A guard check in Internment camp 371. A more innocent group of prisoners you never did see, defs not planning a breakout, nope nope nope.

On which note, I consider it a minor crime that we never get followups of all of them hanging out together afterwards, just the lil' scene of Julian and Martok in the infirmary. Guarantee you Martok would insist on the prison break team partying together on occasion, no matter how much it mystifies the other klingons.

#trek #trektober #trektober2023 #ds9 #deep space nine #STAR TREK #martok #worf #bashir #garak #in which the artist prefers their silly two minute followup sketch to the painting they spent literal hours on #aw man the tonal correction wiped out the scabbing on Worf's knuckles and most of the burns on Garak's hands #wish I'd noticed that earlier #the corner table orders a synthale a small kanar a medium prune juice and ten flagons of blood wine and quark just rolls with it

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theclassymike · 7 months

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