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As an Aphantasic Artist I'll take an abstract brief, inventory available materials, and begin exploring the balance of composition to convey abstract concepts with aesthetic appeal. I seek to uncover beauty in the mundane.
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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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"In early 1950’s Memphis, Tennessee a pedophile in his forties gained unrestricted access to a six-year-old boy. Now, more than 70 years later, my father still affectionately refers to his abuser as 'Mr. Bill;' recounting the perverse exploits the two engaged in during my father’s formative years."

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Ok seriously, what's with all the cows?

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My life's ambition has always been to achieve the title of "Best Supporting Character" in the lives of those around me.

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I built this piece with scrap lumber left over from another project my wife had commissioned for the balcony of our little Toronto apartment.

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The band's playing music while we fight over the shrinking space on the deck of a sinking ship.

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When do we cut out our dependency on the existing supply chains controlled by an oligarchy? How will anything change when it's just easier to keep scrolling on our iPhones while listening to Spotify through the earbuds we purchased on Amazon and eating that TV dinner we picked up at Walmart?

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Sometimes I just want to scream into the void, other times I'll sit around waiting for the void to respond.

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Throwback Circa 2004. My room growing up was visually chaotic on purpose. Lacking the ability to generate international visualizations, I've always used the external world around me to process the abstract concepts that shape my inner world.

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I wonder how many miss the irony of seeing this reposted multiple times...

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My task today is editing part of a book about being the legacy of a child prostitute. I'm onto the part about my father's life in the navy during the Vietnam War where he turned down a promising military career for fear his extracurricular activities (having sex with strange men) would be discovered

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When my wife and I were both unemployed during COVID she started taking orders to cook for friends. After three months of operation we had shifted to delivering orders on demand through Uber Eats. I designed the logo for her restaurant.

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Have you ever considered how your mind works? With multi-sensory aphantasia, my inner world is comprised entirely of emotional connections and complex pattern recognition. Interested in understanding what having Aphantasia is like? open.substack.com/pub/jachinar...

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"Hope in Isolation," from the mind of an Aphantasic Artist. November 2023, I stayed behind, alone, when my wife and daughter traveled to care for my ailing mother-in-law. I grabbed a panel of scrap wood, pulled out my oil paints and decided to create… something.

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Anyone interested in commissioning a real piece of work from a real piece of work? Asking for an Aphantasic Artist I know...

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