Echo Mary-> PLUSH Emo Night!!! XD

I had to do so much reading before I was convinced it wasn't just a gimmick, hahaha! I'll definitely be taking notes and recording everything to share because if this works out well, it's just SUCH a cool method for small projects and glaze testing too.

If you feel helpless and overwhelmed and stuck in a hole— help someone. It will bring you to your feet. We are in this together.

shit sucks, but this is far from the end. Grab onto one another and never let go. They’ve been trying to divide us for years so that we’re easier to topple.

Individualism is poison.

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

pottery in high school but it's really fun to lean more into the academic side of thigns like how different clays and glazes function, and the actual chemistry behind the process.
I'm excited to make grog from light colored ceramics and mix it into the tera cotta colored stuff we're getting <3<3<3

Omg our miniature pottery wheel and clay are going to be here soon! It'll be a while before the microwave kilns arrive, I think, but that just gives Mar and I time to practice a little before getting to fire anything =3
It's been fun learning more about the process, too.
I did quite a bit of

finally finished this needlefelt fox 🙏

Thank you soooo much! <3
And yeah! That one feels more abstract and less tender than a lot of the others so I didn't have quite the same hangup about sharing it without some kind of statement to go along with it lol. It was also influenced by the mountaineering disaster videos I've been watching uwu

A blue, green, and pink stylized anthropomorphic coyote figure on white, with a huge long tongue licking their fingers

"Finger Lickin'"
18"x24"
Acrylic, house paint, paint pens, and oil pastel on canvas

Zoom in on this guy's texture, it's delicious!

Evening two of working on this fun little piece-- it's becoming more involved than I intended (as usual) but I'm also getting to go some cool places so it feels worth it so far!

“Check out my set-up”

A photo of a book called Vascular Plants of the South Sound Prairies.

Oh fuck yes, this came in the mail today 🥰
It's such a good botany/ecology book for the region especially because it has a whole chapter on white settlement, which is a topic I see ignored too often in books like this.

I've finished 29 paintings since December. Some of them won't be posted online but these are the first few I'd like to share here. They're #3, #4, #5 and #6.

terms feels empowering and cathartic in a way I've never experienced until now.

The action of being materially constructive and forthcoming with the way I explore and express my feelings kills my shame by contradicting the idealist values that taught me shame in the first place.

I feel lucky to have had resources facilitating my recovery and the construction of better habits and mindsets as an adult, but a sense of shame still resonates within me. It makes me scared and embarrassed to share this part of myself. But being able to express these ideas and emotions on my own

I dropped the Christian label when I was 12 or 13 but was already lost in a haze of maladaptive habits driving my thoughts, feelings and behaviors to escalate until they presented as a serious mood disorder I couldn't hide anymore.

I couldn't let my family know I was so badly flawed that even God wanted me to suffer, so I hid my feelings of helplessness, betrayal, isolation, horniness and gender.

Since December 2025, my mind and my hands have been occupied by a series of paintings that began pouring out of me. Each piece is a self portrait from around the ages of 9 to 16, after ideas about shame I had picked up at a Christian Youth Camp led me to start masking in response to trauma.

Very vibrant pink-brown dove with indigo sky and gree ground, messy and bold

Fox face with some thick lines and luminous orangeness

Fox face with a more apricot bent. Grey curvy little fur depicting lines

I’ve put these three wee beasts on my website as originals for sale, if anyone might wish to snap them up.

www.chloecumming.com

(Dove in ‘Doves’ section)

www.chloecumming.com/doves-1

Show me your range as an artist :3

The straight truth is this:

The Liberal Party of Canada, UK Labour, and the Democratic Party of the US - none of the party brass truly have a problem with what the current US administration is doing. They have a problem with how obviously and openly it’s being done.

A short thread.

a close up of a man 's face with a smile on his face . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a smile on his face .

Every time <3

they've managed to raise $604 out of the needed 5.4k so far and they're getting close to the point of being pushed out of their current housing and closer to the situation getting far more dicey than it already is. please share this or donate if you can! it'd mean the world

#mutualaid

A photo of a paint smear on my leggins. Do you remember the color of the sky? Etc.

I DoNt LiKe ShAlLoW cOnVeRsAtIoNs AbOuT tHe WeAtHeR, i WaNt To TaLk AbOuT pReTeNdInG pAiNt SmEaRs ArE gOsSaMeR cLoUdS aNd GaLaXiEs In A hAuNtInGlY bEaUtIfUl MeLoDy uwuwuwuwu

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

(also getting a small crucible so we can do small scale brass casting with the kiln too!)

Maranda and I are taking a leap of faith and ordering everything we need to start doing microwave-fired ceramics!!!!
More info later but I'm SO excited to start getting into raku firing especially 👀👀👀

I assumed it was used for corrosive gases but I guess it's good for things that can eventually lead to silicosis and emphysema too? I guess I've taken some bong hits that felt like how that picture looks.

A black raven with iridescent feathers made from a saw blade, you can see the blade edges form the feathered neck of the bird

I saw a raven!
This friend is made by me and @echomary.bsky.social
A secondhand saw blade sketched on, anodized, copper eye'd, and painted. Sold at FC.

My favorite excerpt is about the Communist party leader, a man who had survived the Spanish Civil War and 40 years of exile.