No gray area on generated slop. If someone didn't care enough to make it. I don't want to see it. If they couldn't take time to make something. I don't want to spend any of my time looking at it. I will welcome anyone who makes an honest effort, no matter their skill level. But anyone that makes excuses and wants to push a button to have it happen for them can fucking choke.
My art has always been too slow for social media. Work full time, sometimes a little extra. Still gotta run errands, cook meals, clean my place, be a grown ass man. On top of that I have to find the energy, motivation, and keep the brain worms quiet long enough to get anything done. I work for hours spread over months. Inked drawings can take me weeks. When I had to move and downsize I gave up a lot of my bigger tools which slowed me down more.
The thing is, I like, actually making art. I, like, the process. I will sit there, and stare at the wall, and sharpen my knives, and bend over something for hours. I'll tear up my hands, and be covered in sawdust, and have some hours where I focus on something and try to make an object greater than the sum of its parts. I don't want to clap my hands and have the thing. Then clap my hands like a fucking toddler and have another. I may be doing it because I want the finished project, but the project means something to me because of the journey I had on the way. I learned something. My skills improved with practice. I got to make decisions, and the final product is something distinctly me.
Gonna say it again and keep saying it. I'm tired of corporations trying to convince me that I don't want to have fun, I just want to consume. Treating me like I don't want to think or enjoy things. Fuck all of it.
When these things made weird, trippy dreamscapes it was novel and interesting because nothing like that had been done before, felt like it was being used as a new tool. Now it's just widespread theft an environmental disaster, and an overconsumption of power resources. Utility bills keep going up, municipal keeps telling people to, raise their thermostats, be less comfortable, all so someone can get out of paying an artist.
I actually like doing what I do. I do it because it's fun for me. It's not easy. It's been a long journey, but it's been one I've wanted to make. One that so many artists before me have made. One that many will make after me because it's just a human thing to make art.
