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robin finn

@fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social

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queer mixed media artist and printmaker ♿ they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ boston shop: fiddleheadfinn.etsy.com portfolio: fiddleheadfinn.com

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Things the US government doesn't want you to have!

Stylized gouache painting showing a colorful grid of 9 banned or restricted objects: vaccine vial and syringe, a COVID mask, a bottle of PrEP, an IUD, a passport, a condom, a porn magazine, HRT vials, and a can of "soup for my family"

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3h

No actually, I still want to watch videos on the history of carpeted bathrooms and why Hank Green is all wrong about knitting.

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3h

I had to delete my Youtube history because after watching one video about reading from a white cis dude, my recommendations were full of men with handlebar mustaches.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 11h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 1d

I finished carving both blocks for my next print and then made delicious garlic bread out of the baguette that was delivered already stale

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 1d

Progress

A partially carved linoleum block with a dildo and sex toy collection design.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this info!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 1d

Progress

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

I just posted a sketchbook tour for my patrons!
🎨 patreon.com/fiddleheadfinn

Sketchbook open to a watercolor painting of a tree by the water on one page, and on the other page 8 color studies of a mountain landscape with different colored underpaintings.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! The color is definitely staying 😊

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Also I'm jazzed that my head won't be as cold this winter!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Puff sleeves puff sleeves puff sleeves

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently this has been documented as an "extreme" form of migraine aura. I love to be an edge case 🙃

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

I had the violent sads the other night again, but this time I recognized it as migraine prodrome

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

I just posted a sketchbook tour for my patrons!
🎨 patreon.com/fiddleheadfinn

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

I'm growing out my hair into a pixie cut so I can femme it up when I feel like it

Robin takes a selfie in their bedroom with their hand under their chin. They have blue/green-tipped short hair that matches their eyes, a black puff-sleeved shirt, and winged eyeliner.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 9d

Masked Marilyn, color version

Linocut print of Marilyn Monroe in a KN95 mask, referencing Andy Warhol's famous silkscreen. Color details in acrylic gouache.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful! I can't wait to see the finished results

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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 3d

Space rocks painted with underglaze. Hopefully I can clear glaze them tomorrow and get them fired over the weekend??

Colours will shift after firing, but I am really excited to see them 🥰 #space #ceramics #art

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out the secret is to always have books out from the library.

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

In the past couple months I've read most of the Murderbot books, two of Chuck Tingle's horror novels, and I'm halfway through rereading Wuthering Heights.

I never fully stopped reading, but this is the closest I've gotten to the way I used to tear through books pre-illness.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

I've been slowly replacing doomscrolling with reading, and I'm succeeding! The psych hospital stay was a good reset. Then I installed the Self Control app and can't believe I didn't use it sooner 🩵

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

Ahhhh I love this plant!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

My first pastel sketches in years

Sketchbook open to two chalk pastel life drawings of a nude seated figure, drawn in warm yellows and oranges.

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🍂 zurera ⋆˙⟡ comms closed! ✷ @errezurera.bsky.social · 3d

Long live the unhinged possum

Sticker of a possum screaming. You can read “live, laugh, scream”

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much!