Spam Pam Am M

“What a World, Such Is the Sky”

2023

The sky is never still.It changes every secondlight shifts, clouds dissolve, colors appear and disappear before you even notice them. By the time a painter mixes the next color, the sky has already become something else.That is why painting the sky is never about copying reality. It is about capturing an impression of a fleeting moment that no longer exists.Perhaps that is why the Impressionists were so fascinated by light and atmosphere. They painted not what they knew was there, but what they felt in that instant. Every brushstroke became a memory of a changing sky.This painting grew from that same idea. The textured layers, bold palette knife marks, and shifting colors are not meant to freeze the sky in time, they are meant to preserve the feeling of watching it transform, moment after moment.By the time the painting was finished, the real sky had changed hundreds of times. But one impression remained on the canvas.

Dandelions

Thank you @kuurankaiho for the tag!

I tag in turn @veeskei, @morallygrayautisticscientist, @vonvampyr, @frostdjaam-s, @bereavedbuckle, and anyone who wants a reason to share some work ;) (do it do it do it do it)

Here is a drawing from my clone emotions that I’m really excited for the lighting part of it

I haven’t found the name for what emotion this is yet but it’ll probably come up when I get back to working on this piece :3

Demon Rearing by @beansmakesthings

About two hours later I was permanently banned from r/MadeMeSmile for “self-promotion.”

I accepted that different communities have different rules.But then something even stranger happened.Soon afterward, a moderator from r/pics started going through my account. Not just the new post—many of my older painting posts disappeared as well. One after another. Then I was permanently banned there too.

Maybe it was the same moderator. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know.

What surprised me wasn’t even the ban itself. It was realizing how much power individual moderators have over what millions of people are allowed to see. One decision can erase years of posts from a community and instantly cut off your ability to participate, even if those posts had been happily sitting there for months or years.I’m not saying moderators shouldn’t have rules. Communities need moderation.But it does make you wonder where the line is between protecting a community and allowing a single interpretation of the rules to completely reshape what people can share.

The funny part?

I wasn’t advertising anything in those posts. I wasn’t posting prices or asking anyone to buy anything. I was simply sharing my original paintings because I enjoy discussing art with strangers from around the world.

Anyway…

Here’s the painting that apparently caused all the trouble. 🎨