Elana Bloom

I also love tiny bags. I have a beaded fanny pack in this style and it’s actually great for concerts. It fits: cash, a credit card, and lipstick. Perfect.

Once a month, I’ll be opening up my natural dye studio up for anyone (over 18) to come a dye their own stuff. Why is there no tongs emoji? Anyway, come join in the dye party this Saturday #tucson

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A row of colorful silk scarves hanging on a wall at an angle in rainbow color order, purples, reds, oranges, yellow, greens to blues.

Building a rainbow. Taste the rainbow? Reading rainbow? Rainbow Bright? Oh goodness 🤓

And maybe more ways to share! Love your images :)

I hope so too! And think you’re right. It hardly feels like a direct Instagram alternative but in some ways feels more mentally sustainable for me. I can’t tell if more people just need to join or if I’m doing something wrong, but I’m here for the evolution.

Things I like here so far:
1. No reels or carousels (though I’m still confused about the culture of image sharing).
2. All the leftist stuff and less of the Instagram culture. It kinda feels like 2011.
3. I want to like “algorithmic choice” but I still don’t know what it means.
4. To hashtag? 🧐

Oh interesting, thanks for this, I’ll check it out. Also, you commenting on my Bluesky post and not an Instagram post does make me think the app is working.

Questions I get from other artists about Bluesky:
“But like how does it work?” Idk 🫠
“But is anyone there?” People seem to be here.
“How do you get followers?” So far by posting a link on my Insta 🙃
“Are you leaving Instagram?” We keep postponing the break-up, but we’re sleeping in separate beds.

A large bodied woman with red hair collaged from pink and orange papers stands in a vast desert made of different colored papers. Another head that resembles her own floats besides her.

Two heads are always better than one. What’s your interpretation? I always receive different ideas related to this piece and each one allows me to introspect.

#art #collage #paperart #feministart

Collaged cut paper art piece of a very light-skinned woman with white hair and a floating head of similar tone and hair style lounging in a vast white landscape under a black sky.

One must constantly exist in conversation with the self, especially the parts of the self we’ve yet to understand or accept or even like.
#art #collage #cutpaper #tucsonartist #figureart

My friend and are thinking of stopping into figure drawing in Feb. Is it usually one model? And are there long and quick poses? Thanks for offering this 😊

An off-white building with wood slats featuring a partially open door and a round wood sign and a hanging planter of succulents. A bucket on a cart is on the right. Through the open door is a counter with dye pots and a large window with string lights.

Slowly manifesting my inner world into my outer world in the hopes to have open dye hours starting this winter. It’s been a journey, but I love the potential this funky little studio offers 🤍
#artstudio #naturaldyer #tucson

Collage made from blue, beige, and tqn papers of an old woman with short hair sitting in a landscape with blue hills in the background.

When I made this work, this Virginia Woolf quote ran through my head on repeat: “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Feels more poignant than ever, though I know it’s more complicated than a 100-year-old quote.

Me too! I hope this turns out to be a viable alternative to Instagram with everything going down 🤍

If this is our future due to Meta going MAGA, I’m here for it 😎