You Have To Work

July 16, 2026.Reading time 6 minutes.

The issue with artists is that in order to be decent as an artist, you have to actually sit down at the drawing board and work. You don’t get good by accident.
By Ian Wilson

We’ve Created A Monster

June 25, 2026.Reading time 7 minutes.

Since it appeared, I’ve found that people had two reactions to AI, ranging from apathy to utter disgust, but then there’s a third reaction I didn’t expect: raging enthusiasm. Yes, friends, there are people who actually want AI to succeed and to destroy human artists…
By Ian Wilson

So Fast Thou Grow’st

April 9, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … You will make something beautiful in any event / Even if only a silly ceramic frog / Holding a perfectly pointless umbrella / Upon the tree-stump where you feed the birds

On the Consumption of Art

March 14, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

But we do not consume a work of art / Sometimes we almost seem to marry it / Joining art in a sacrament of love / Beyond the velvet ropes of ownership