Nixie

Designer + Illustrator + Writer + Musician + Producer

Project Series

Painted Poems Project
Illustrations
Designs
Music
Photos

Artist Statement

Pencil to paper, I open the cover and spill my ideas on a canvas. The digital canvas lets me have second chances, to alter colors, and adjust lines, and layers. It gives me the feeling of unlimited power. Though I prefer digital media, I understand the importance of being familiar with other materials. Each new material offers a different perspective and, in my hands, markers and inks, graphite or acrylic, nothing stops the flow of my art.If you have something you need to be designed or a story to be told, I take it as a quest and come back with the task complete. There is no animal, flower, person, building, or mythical creature that I won’t attempt. No matter how difficult the task is, I will make it happen, because that is what I do and what I enjoy the mostPencil to paper, I open the cover and spill my ideas on a canvas. The digital canvas lets me have second chances, to alter colors, and adjust lines, and layers. It gives me the feeling of unlimited power. Though I prefer digital media, I understand the importance of being familiar with other materials. Each new material offers a different perspective and, in my hands, markers and inks, graphite or acrylic, nothing stops the flow of my art.If you have something you need to be designed or a story to be told, I take it as a quest and come back with the task complete. There is no animal, flower, person, building, or mythical creature that I won’t attempt. No matter how difficult the task is, I will make it happen, because that is what I do and what I enjoy the most

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All of the writing is displayed in separate "posts" to make it more digestible for social media. Because Twitter limits a user to four images per post, this is done in batches of four or less. Is this more or less convenient for the audiences? Is the system set up for the people or against the people?

Introduction

One of the most human things is to want to be heard, but how can I be heard if there is no room for my voice, my writing? I am here to defy the limitations I’ve been given to work with. I am here to make more space.Something I’ve wanted to do for a few years now is figure out how I can share my writing to the social media scene when everything is so image-based and there’s not a lot of room for writing.As a society, we are engulfed in a world of videos, reels, clips, whatever you may call them. Unless you make a video about it, somehow your ideas don't come across people’s feeds as often. There are very few spaces where you are allowed to share your writing alongside other forms of media and so many of these platforms tend to be niche-inclined and for specific purposes.This is a statement piece against the way social media is designed today. In this series, I aim to criticize the social media-based society we live in and how everything is now video-based to the point where there is so little room for poetry and writing on socials.From Twitter’s 280-character cap to how we use that app mostly as a random collection of thoughts and updates nowadays. We are no longer calling Twitter “X”, not because we aren't used to the name change, but because we have no respect for the platform anymore. How Instagram’s photo and reel features are limited, capping a post at 2,200 characters. Instagram’s secondary app, Threads, is essentially a makeshift Twitter at this point. Tumblr is one of the few spaces still designed for readers and writers, and how limitless this platform alone can be, and we use all of these apps to show only the good moments we have stored in our photos.This is about how we move away from literature so fast these days that we’re losing vocabulary and grammar and substituting it with lingo and slang instead. Schools aren’t teaching proper grammar in American educational systems anymore because of social media. Bookstores are mostly empty when you arrive at their destination, and Barnes and Noble are switching between playing defense and offense with bankruptcy because of Amazon.Download an app to speak your mind. What if I don't want to do that? What if I don't want my story to disappear within the next 24 hours, something more permanent, more pronounced? Make more space for me to write, please.The point of this project is to make writing seen in a digital world not meant for it with the platforms we've been given to work with. What about the writers and the multimedia artists?This is a "screw you" to those who made the system this way. This is about everyone else's writing just as much as it is about mine.Thus, from a sense of wanting to belong, a new series emerges,The Painted Poems Project.