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there are obviously details I would fix in that now but overall, I feel like it is more cohesive and dynamic than anything I make these days. it's like a lot of pride and a bit of frustration, looking at old art that still slaps, because it feels a bit like that means I haven't made much progress since. like I was already in an artistic decline due to financial and job seeking anxiety beforehand, and then being in grocery stores during the first year and change of the pandemic damaged me in a fundamental way that I still don't know how to recover from, creatively speaking