Zoe Joan Art (@zoejoanart)

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17.01.2026 23:47 👍 183 🔁 32 💬 6 📌 0

If there's anything AI has done for me this year, it's awakened a hunger for person-to-person connection. Hanging out with a baby, going to see live theatre, eating food someone made, appreciating art from 200 years ago, from 800 years ago, from 10,000 years ago... Human creation is so wonderful.

14.12.2025 17:36 👍 732 🔁 170 💬 3 📌 1

Drawing of a puppy on a boat with the caption; "I still believe there is good in the world even if I have to search"

Searching

01.12.2025 12:17 👍 3154 🔁 1056 💬 20 📌 4

A painted pink, black and white sign that reads: To Do Build community Shop small and local Speak up and speak out Practice empathy Protect the vulnerable Give to good causes Care for the earth Be brave and loving Investigate Read and listen Abide no fascism

I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.

23.11.2025 03:25 👍 896 🔁 297 💬 5 📌 4

A small black and white comic. The comic shows me in four stages. At the beginning I am lurched over in my office chair, prepared to work hard. A speech bubble says: 'Okay. Time to lock in and-.' My cat's head is peeking up from around my lap. In the second part, my cat has started to crawl into my space. I look down at her, but am still distractedly saying: 'Time to lock-' In the third part my cat is starting to make herself comfortable on my chest, where she likes to be. I am succumbing, looking off in the distance saying: 'To-' By the fourth section, I have fully surrendered. She is sleeping on chest. It's all over.

12.11.2025 19:58 👍 6823 🔁 1837 💬 50 📌 37

Hello all! My cat needs a bunch of tests and realistically probably treatment and i do not currently have a job. please help us out and get some cool art in the process!

19.09.2025 06:26 👍 66 🔁 79 💬 1 📌 0

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

13.08.2025 02:09 👍 3919 🔁 1827 💬 25 📌 26

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

06.08.2025 01:01 👍 17879 🔁 6463 💬 150 📌 170

"ai is inevitable" no you are just a weak coward

12.05.2025 10:49 👍 2688 🔁 953 💬 1 📌 1

" No, it wasn't. What makes you worry about things like that is when you start thinking about what certain people might say about it later. Because you're not really sure what they might say. And if you start worrying, you could make some really strange decisions based upon that worry. The work isn't talking to you any more; this worry is talking to you. And you become paralysed. So the trick is: you've got to forget making a hero or a fool of yourself and just try to get into that world. and if you can do that, and you feel good about the decisions that you make, then you can weather whatever good or bad storm comes along. " - David Lynch in 'Lynch on Lynch'.

A David Lynch quote for every creative person who may need it today.

It resonated with me when I came across it reading it in Lynch on Lynch.

12.05.2025 00:03 👍 3693 🔁 1502 💬 17 📌 35

i love making stickers

09.02.2025 21:43 👍 461 🔁 145 💬 2 📌 0

Go make the art you’ve always wanted to make. Write the stories you’ve been dreaming of. Sing your heart out. Pick up an instrument & play. Do the things you’ve been holding back on because you’re worried about what others might think. Just do it. Do it now. Life is short. Life is precious. Please.

21.01.2025 01:10 👍 3492 🔁 1494 💬 10 📌 15

I wish more creatives would promote how improving your quality of life will drastically help your art

Instead of people sacrificing their quality of life to work on their art

08.01.2025 10:29 👍 1176 🔁 235 💬 40 📌 9

Rampant art theft, inflation, gen AI, incoming tariffs and possible privatization of the USPS…there are a lot of forces working against independent artists. Your support is more important than ever before.

17.12.2024 04:13 👍 817 🔁 477 💬 3 📌 3

I wish all exhausted artists a very "may you rediscover the joy of drawing"

27.10.2024 15:45 👍 11033 🔁 3755 💬 90 📌 59