• they/them

a cloud between the sky

and the earth

avatar by @SweetSidhe


neocities, my main home
oriananonexistent.neocities.org/
the cohost forum test project, and wherever it goes after
eggbugstestplace.jcink.net/index.php?showuser=2
the website league once it's ready. i'll be exactly who you think i am
websiteleague.org/

i have yet to receive one negative comment, and i'm not looking forward to dealing with them in the future. but i'm looking forward to not getting them even less because that means i have no reach.

so go through the list and either find a piece, or the whole oeuvre, and tell me what you don't like about it.

be honest. don't give me secret compliments, be critical. if you can't do it, that's okay, don't worry about it!


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in reply to @oriananonexistent's post:

You always ask me to do difficult things! I don't want to be rude! But, I have known the pain of asking for feedback so I know what to improve, and have gotten no answer. So I promise to try, I just don't want to make you feel bad.

I have looked at a few of your piece. I will tell you right now, collage is not a medium I know well and I have a hard time judging visual art in general art. So I will tell you what I observed, and I will compare it to what I know. I'm sorry if it's not very useful, I did my best to do what you ask.

Your collage often have identifiable figures and fading images. Or sometimes the pictures is covered in a sort of filter, like this. The overall impression is of a dream world: a reality that is removed, less tangible, but still whole (the identifiable figures contribute to that wholeness, the fading images and filters to the sense of intangibility.) Some pictures are more busy than others, more chaotic than others, but they always feel broadly coherent.
I say this because the only collage I'm vaguely familiar with are those made by the Dadaist. Dadaist collage are chaotic, fragmented, often with faces and object being distorted and a often a sense that an explosion is happening in the piece. They feel violent.
Yours don't feel like that, they feel more calm. Removed even. The exception is this.

Whether this is a criticism or not depends on your artistic intent. Do you like that your art is more gentle? I'll say for me, the fading and dreamlike part of them make me feel uneasy. Like, a world is slowly dying out. What I thought was real is actually rotten. I don't know if that unease is deliberate or not, that's up to you to judge.

I don't think I have the expertise to judge this kind of art but I will say I would like to see you try and do a piece that presents narrative in addition to a sensation or experience. You come closest with the two shadows passing each other in front of the blue wall but I think you could have done more with that.

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