Emerald Barkley - Gencon baybeeeeee
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Hi #portfolioday, I am a watercolor artist in Northan California painting bones and ethereal botanicals. I did my first book cover this year and would love to do more 👀
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Anyone trying to sell you AI as creativity is not trying to liberate you lol
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Anyone trying to sell you AI as creativity is not trying to liberate you lol
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
This Hope has a Sharp Edge, 2021
Hope blossoms in all of us, sometimes gently, sometimes boldly.
This piece is about the overlay of anxiety that has walked hand in hand with hope these last few years.
Hope blossoms in all of us, sometimes gently, sometimes boldly.
This piece is about the overlay of anxiety that has walked hand in hand with hope these last few years.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This Hope has a Sharp Edge, 2021
Hope blossoms in all of us, sometimes gently, sometimes boldly.
This piece is about the overlay of anxiety that has walked hand in hand with hope these last few years.
Hope blossoms in all of us, sometimes gently, sometimes boldly.
This piece is about the overlay of anxiety that has walked hand in hand with hope these last few years.
These Teeth That Gnash, 2022
Some days it feels like the tension that i hold stretches beyond my form, pushing outward in wild, graceful arcs.
My body feels so small to hold such large emotions inside of it.
Some days it feels like the tension that i hold stretches beyond my form, pushing outward in wild, graceful arcs.
My body feels so small to hold such large emotions inside of it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
These Teeth That Gnash, 2022
Some days it feels like the tension that i hold stretches beyond my form, pushing outward in wild, graceful arcs.
My body feels so small to hold such large emotions inside of it.
Some days it feels like the tension that i hold stretches beyond my form, pushing outward in wild, graceful arcs.
My body feels so small to hold such large emotions inside of it.
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
The Things We Bury, 2023
What vibrant pieces of self do we bury throughout our lives, and how can we create meaningful connections with those dormant, tender places?
What does it look like to gently coax new life into ourselves?
What vibrant pieces of self do we bury throughout our lives, and how can we create meaningful connections with those dormant, tender places?
What does it look like to gently coax new life into ourselves?
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Things We Bury, 2023
What vibrant pieces of self do we bury throughout our lives, and how can we create meaningful connections with those dormant, tender places?
What does it look like to gently coax new life into ourselves?
What vibrant pieces of self do we bury throughout our lives, and how can we create meaningful connections with those dormant, tender places?
What does it look like to gently coax new life into ourselves?
The moon, the lunatic, and the divine, 2018
For me, this piece is about mental health as a hero's journey, in a sense, where the hero must journey into the other world/nether world to learn something profound about themselves, the world, and life and then return.
For me, this piece is about mental health as a hero's journey, in a sense, where the hero must journey into the other world/nether world to learn something profound about themselves, the world, and life and then return.
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The moon, the lunatic, and the divine, 2018
For me, this piece is about mental health as a hero's journey, in a sense, where the hero must journey into the other world/nether world to learn something profound about themselves, the world, and life and then return.
For me, this piece is about mental health as a hero's journey, in a sense, where the hero must journey into the other world/nether world to learn something profound about themselves, the world, and life and then return.
I've got stickers *and* they're pretty
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I've got stickers *and* they're pretty
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Nebulae
12 x 16 in, oil on panel
A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints.
robreyart.com
12 x 16 in, oil on panel
A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints.
robreyart.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Nebulae
12 x 16 in, oil on panel
A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints.
robreyart.com
12 x 16 in, oil on panel
A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints.
robreyart.com
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Tomorrow! INSIDES opens in person at Stranger Factory! (Online sales begin on Monday, I believe?) Here is a preview of one of my pieces, titled The Stockpile.
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Tomorrow! INSIDES opens in person at Stranger Factory! (Online sales begin on Monday, I believe?) Here is a preview of one of my pieces, titled The Stockpile.
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I’ve been quietly working on this collection these past months, my next solo with Modern Eden Gallery “I Told The Spiders About You” is my depiction of feminine rage and resilience. Opening November 6th 🖤
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’ve been quietly working on this collection these past months, my next solo with Modern Eden Gallery “I Told The Spiders About You” is my depiction of feminine rage and resilience. Opening November 6th 🖤
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple
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Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein
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turns out you can find some of william morris's speeches on the internet archive and they are entirely worth the reading
"how can we bear to use, how can we enjoy something which has been a pain and a grief for the maker to make?"
"how can we bear to use, how can we enjoy something which has been a pain and a grief for the maker to make?"
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
turns out you can find some of william morris's speeches on the internet archive and they are entirely worth the reading
"how can we bear to use, how can we enjoy something which has been a pain and a grief for the maker to make?"
"how can we bear to use, how can we enjoy something which has been a pain and a grief for the maker to make?"
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My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!
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October 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Scrolling the feed.
All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought
September 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Scrolling the feed.
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This is why early childhood education in the arts is SO important. It's much easier to develop this when the stakes are low and you'll be praised for your effort rather than the result. So that when you get to age 9-12 and start to care, you'll be juuuust good enough to push through and not stop.
August 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is why early childhood education in the arts is SO important. It's much easier to develop this when the stakes are low and you'll be praised for your effort rather than the result. So that when you get to age 9-12 and start to care, you'll be juuuust good enough to push through and not stop.
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"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"His hands look like really fucked up right now, Mr. Frodo"
"His hands look like really fucked up right now, Mr. Frodo"
August 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"His hands look like really fucked up right now, Mr. Frodo"
"His hands look like really fucked up right now, Mr. Frodo"
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🌙Asteraceae🌙
One of the latest paintings in my flower series for upcoming show at Antler and Talon gallery opens this Thursday at 6pm in Portland.
If you would like to see an advanced preview, please email gallantlerpdxlerpdx.com
One of the latest paintings in my flower series for upcoming show at Antler and Talon gallery opens this Thursday at 6pm in Portland.
If you would like to see an advanced preview, please email gallantlerpdxlerpdx.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🌙Asteraceae🌙
One of the latest paintings in my flower series for upcoming show at Antler and Talon gallery opens this Thursday at 6pm in Portland.
If you would like to see an advanced preview, please email gallantlerpdxlerpdx.com
One of the latest paintings in my flower series for upcoming show at Antler and Talon gallery opens this Thursday at 6pm in Portland.
If you would like to see an advanced preview, please email gallantlerpdxlerpdx.com