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  • 2026 Goals

    Two years ago I set out on a completely unreasonable journey for my new years resolutions. They were so far overreaching that it was hilarious. It demanded a level of productivity from me that I haven’t had since I was in school, and probably not even then. Completely unobtainable. Then last year I just didn’t…

    jerpir

    January 4, 2026
    Uncategorized
    accountability, art, art for sale, art generation, art making, articles, artist, avoidance, blog, collection, confrontation, confronting, consumption, control, creating, creative, creativity, deadline, deadlines, ecperiences, endless, experience, exploration, fine art, goals, health, impossible, journal, journaling, labor, life, mental health, mental labor, mental-health, metadata, mgsoa, MICA, mount gretna, mount gretna school, mount gretna school of art, news, notes, obtainable, oil, oil painting, page, page fright, pain, paint, physical art, play, possible, resolutions, sketchbooks, sketching, unobtainable, watercolor, watercolor art, work, writing
  • Avoidance

    I have been avoiding making anything serious for a while now. Hiding from the need to be creative because… why? I have been asking myself this question for months, years, and still have no real or even half way decent answer. I have been hiding in media consumption. Books, games, audiobooks, news articles, social media,…

    jerpir

    December 20, 2025
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    art, articles, audiobook, avoidance, book, books, confrontation, confronting, consumption, creative, creative health, creativity, drawing, enthusiasm, game, games, health, hiding, junk tv, media, mental health, music, news, nike, nothing, pain, PAinting, serious, sketching, social media, solution, solutions, stare, television, tv, vacant, void, work, writing
  • Prompt

    This weeks blog prompt is “What have you been working on?” and it’s really the only one I’ve found relevant to my life. So it’s the first one i’m going to use for an entry. For the past few weeks or so I’ve been working on more bonsai watercolors. There you have it, the shortest…

    jerpir

    October 19, 2025
    Uncategorized
    a5, after school, after-school, amazement, art, artmaking, bewilderment, bloom, bonsai, book, books, CCP, change, changed, college, community, community college, community college of Philadelphia, convenience, correctable, doom, doomscrolling, draw, drawing, drawing pad, editable, endless, erase, erased, fear, fine art, finite space, freedom, fright, high school, infinite space, large, life, mental health, mgsoa, mount gretna, mount gretna school, mount gretna school of art, oil, oil painting, pafa, page, page fright, PAinting, paper, pennsylvania academy, pennsylvania academy of fine art, plein air, program, programs, prompt, recenet, recent works, recycled, screentime, scrolling, size, sketchbooks, sketching, space, strathmere, surface area, terror, thread, threads, travel, watercolor, watercolors, wonder, work, work in progress, writing, writing prompt
  • Creativity vs Generativity

    Creativity and Generativity are wildly different concepts and practices. To make something just for the sake of making something without any real thought or passion and / or just to make a quick buck is generativity. One generates a thing for a specific and artless purpose. As they say “trained rats could do that” or…

    jerpir

    October 5, 2025
    Uncategorized
    accountability, art, art generation, art kid, art-making, artist, artmaking, books, collection, creating, creation, creative health, creative-writing, creativity, critic, criticism, data, digital art, drawing, experiences, experimental, experimentation, exploration, generation, generative, healing, health, internet, journal, journaling, labor, life, love, mediated experiences, mental labor, mental-health, metadata, mixed media, notes, novels, pen, pen and paper, pencil, pencil and paper, physical art, physical labor, play, printmaking, reading, social media, technology, thank you, time, travel, typing, vacuum, weird, weird art kid, work, work in progress, writing
  • House of Leaves pt. 2

    I have passed this volume onto my teenaged nephew via his mother, my sister-in-law. I’m not sure how good or bad of an idea that was. Only time will tell. I just needed the thing out of my hands, out of my house, out of my control. The whole thing was out of control. I…

    jerpir

    September 8, 2025
    Uncategorized
    analysis, book-review, books, control, david wong, fiction, ghosts, ghosts haunt minds, house, house of leaves, jason pargin, john dies at the end, johnny truant, mental health, reading, reddit, review, truant, wikipedia, writing, zampano
  • House (Contains Spoilers)

    One may ask: “Where have you been?” Or perhaps: “What have you been doing” Maybe even: “Are you dead?” I’ll answer these in reverse order. I can say for pretty sure that I’m not dead, not a zombie, not some other kind of undead creature. And as for doing? Well, I’ve been reading a hell…

    jerpir

    August 9, 2025
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    addiction, art, art-making, artist, artmaking, books, critic, criticism, digital art, experiences, experimental, experimentation, exploration, health, house, house of leaves, labor, leaves, life, love, Maryland Institute College of Art, mediated experiences, mental labor, mental-health, MICA, novels, physical art, physical labor, play, printmaking, time, travel, work, work in progress, writing
  • Boy howdy

    It has been a long time since I’ve been here doing the thing. It’s been over two months and I’ve barely had time to put pen to paper or fingers to keys. I have been making. Not much. But some. Really, I’ve been reading a massive book and loving it. I have been saying to…

    jerpir

    July 30, 2025
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    art, art generation, art-making, artist, artmaking, bonsai, bonsai-drawing, bonsai-painting, bonsai-watercolor, creativity, critic, criticism, digital art, drawing, experiences, experimentation, exploration, generation, generative, goals, gratitude, health, labor, life, love, Maryland Institute College of Art, mediation, mental labor, mental-health, MICA, mixed media, museums, pain, paint, physical art, physical labor, play, show up, sketchbooks, sketching, suit up, thank you, time, travel, watercolor, wip, work, work in progress, writing
  • Creation in Isolation VS a Vacuum

    Ex nihilo nihil fit-Latin saying I have a fairly good size print that says just that. Actually, I have a whole mess of “Phrase Prints” left over from my thesis at MICA. Too many to count. I really want to find one of this phrase and hang it up on my wall somewhere. Make a…

    jerpir

    May 27, 2025
    Uncategorized
    art, covid, creating, creation, creative health, creative-writing, creativity, internet, isolate, isolated, isolation, life, mediated experiences, mental health, mental-health, MICA, notes, pandemic, social media, thesis, vacuum, writing
  • A Little Landscape

    Just a little gray-day plein air watercolor. Far from a perfect piece. It’s 8″x5″ of a sketchbook page. I don’t think it’s outstanding in any way but it has a certain kind of poorly-drawn charm to it.

    jerpir

    May 12, 2025
    Uncategorized
    art, drawing, PAinting, sketchbooks, sketching, watercolor
  • So it’s been a while…

    …about a month, little over, and what have I been doing for the past month? Well, I’ll tell you it’s nothing amazing. The most I’ve done has been adding rows to a spreadsheet. Said spreadsheet is a collection of the metrics and metadata from my journals of the past 16 years or so. The data…

    jerpir

    April 22, 2025
    Uncategorized
    art, collection, data, journal, journaling, mental-health, metadata, pen, pen and paper, pencil, pencil and paper, reading, typing, writing
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