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The Medium is the Message
Read more: The Medium is the MessageA few years ago I started making artwork with a gallery setting in mind (rather than Instagram.) That completely changed the kinds of things I was making. I started the series My Brain on Motherhood and have been in over 10 fine art exhibitions. That never would have happened if I kept making art “for”…
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Bright Spots for Your Day
Read more: Bright Spots for Your DayI’m still writing a novel so I’m keeping this short and sweet. In the Studio ✂️ When I finish a big project (like crowdfunding Entwined) or have a lot of big feelings to process I like to make things with my hands. After my first book I started my first bricolage The Mental Load. This…
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Entwined Blog Hop
Read more: Entwined Blog HopEntwined weaves together stories of creativity and motherhood from mothers on the west coast of America, to Canada, Mexico, and the UK. Contributors include painters, writers, potters, visual artists, musicians, poets, and multipassionates. Every mother has their own creative ecosystem. By sharing our stories we hope to inspire you to entwine creativity and motherhood in…
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The Five Year Origin Story of Entwined 🌿
Read more: The Five Year Origin Story of Entwined 🌿I’m so excited to (finally) open up preorders for Entwined & Ember an anthology and art journal for mums. This passion project has taken a lot of my energy this year along with 55 other mothers who submitted stories, prompts, and art. I’ve been working at on this book for almost five years. Here’s the…
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Rediscovering the Gift Economy
Read more: Rediscovering the Gift Economy(Or) The Internet Before It Became a Capitalist Hellscape The year is 1999. Every morning I sit down at a computer that looks roughly like this: And I engage with an Internet that is much different than our own. Rather than being served up content from various data mining corporate entities I am very intentional…
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Rekindling a Note Taking Practice
Read more: Rekindling a Note Taking PracticeI’ve always loved note taking. Even as a kid I would collect notes and information, magazine pages, booklets. I think it’s something of a neurodivergent impulse. Autistic folks often love collecting things and I’ve only just realized that part of that drive for me is in collecting information. I love learning things, but I also…
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The Ancient Technology of RSS
Read more: The Ancient Technology of RSSHow have you been? Since taking my foot off the gas here at Substack I’ve freed up a lot of time and creative energy. If you’re feeling pressure to post weekly it’s worth asking yourself what your intentions are. If it’s all about growth there’s no doubt there is a benefit to posting weekly. But…
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From the kitchen table to NYC 🗽
Read more: From the kitchen table to NYC 🗽Flashback to four years ago… It was Christmas Day and I was sitting at the kitchen anxiously trying to finish a weaving to submit to an exhibition about motherhood. Here’s a video showing the weaving process. I made data weavings recording each time I was interrupted by tying a knot. I barely finished and photographed…
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Stepping Softly into 2024
Read more: Stepping Softly into 2024Not yet archived. Still at https://sarahshotts.substack.com/p/hello-from-a-human-jungle-gym
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