Making things and launching website!

It's now been a year or two of really pushing myself creatively and I'm lucky enough to have reached a point where I feel comfortable enough with who I am and what I do to share it. In art college, there was (understandably) an emphasis on either industry or the industry of Fine Art--selling originals, getting in galleries, residencies etc. Maybe someday I'll find a place in that world but a few months ago I came to the realization I forgot to consider why I was making art, and it was completely misaligned with that approach. Most of my favourite artists, poets, crafts people are queer weirdos on the internet. And I thought to myself I think it's time I try to join them.

Put less delicately, I was forgetting my target audience. I certainly can't afford originals--I'm a sticker and print hound though. Art for artists. Art for people like me. Secretly I'm hoping for some kind of connection or community out there too, but only time will tell. I plan to hit up the art markets as well. I'm not trying to become rich by any means, but something about assigning value to something you've made feels quite good. oh, capitalism.

This is the first lineup of stickers, I didn't overthink it and just went with what I would like to see in a sticker going down an artist alley somewhere. I'm not usually one for text in stickers, I don't know why, so this seems to be my niche.

All branding has just kind of fallen naturally out of years of habits and preferences. And I quite like it (well, of course I do) but opening myself up in a business sense is a little daunting. I'm just hoping someone somewhere out there is able to see it and get it and feel that kind of connection that makes me make art in the first place.