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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 · 8h

Thank you so much!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 11h

Abstract painting from nature photos: a Scribble Brigade session hosted by Sophie McPike

Sketchbook open to show four abstract gouache paintings based on photos of lichen, water, tree bark, and flowers.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 1d

Don't get me wrong, comics are awesome! I'm just kind of fascinated by the evolution of zinemaking culture.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Pill life still life

Rainbow scratch art still life of three pill bottles, two with little smiley & sad faces on the labels.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Let's get some shoes

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a great picture! You look so happy!

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

I love that idea! And I bet someone has, honestly, but that's no reason not to do it again.

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Pill life still life

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Just sent out my shop orders and October rewards!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

So were personal websites coded by hand! So it feels less like the internet replaced those things and more like they were filling similar niches for a bit

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

That’s true, but I think there’s something irreplaceable about the mixture of text & images laid out by hand. It’s odd because online blogging was arguably more popular back when I started making zines (early 2000s livejournal days)

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

That’s awesome!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

These shoes RULE!!

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I think I will 🫖

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

I went to the zine fair and it was really cool, but I noticed it was almost entirely comics. Do people still make text-based perzines with glue sticks & xerox machines anymore?

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

18 years later and this song still lives rent free in my head whenever I wanna buy some shoes

robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Let's get some shoes

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

Ughhhh this is part of why it's taken so long for me to publicly embrace being nonbinary. It always comes with a side of (some) people erasing your transness.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 3d

This is so impressive!

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 4d

Escher cake
Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake. Each bird has a black outline and other details drawn on with an edible marker

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 7d

Hospital doodles kept me going. How have I never done scratch art before??

A thistle design in rainbow on black scratch art paper, mounted on a sketchbook page and surrounded by doodles of small objects: puzzle pieces, a cup, eyeglasses, bag of pretzels, plants, and a toy birdhouse.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much!

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Pills, Pills, Pills

Watercolor painting showing a colorful grid of stylized pill & medication bottles. Left to right, starting at the top: Vitamin D3, Benadryl, Zofran, melatonin, Qulipta, fluvoxamine, Flonase, Centrum Women's multivitamin, olanzapine, Depakote, PrEP, oxycodone.

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robin finn @fiddleheadfinn.bsky.social · 5d

I got a 75 count pack of rainbow scratch art paper—can't wait to fill them with pill bottles and dildos.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10d

October 4th! That's Saturday!

I hope you'll join me for the Somerville Zine Fest, it's going to be a fun time, lots of cool stuff and zines, zines, zines!

Somerville Zine Fest October 4th 12pm - 7pm Market, Workshops, Zine Swap, Boston Figure Arts Center, 285 Washington Street, Somerville, MA

35+ local artists

the poster is very cute, it has illustrated lil animal people all excited about their zines, there's a lil duck with a frog on its head, a wolf, a mouse, an owl, some dogs, cats, maybe a lil hippo pal, just a whole bunch of cute friends
Somerville Zine Fest October 4th 12pm - 7pm Market, Workshops, Zine Swap, Boston Figure Arts Center, 285 Washington Street, Somerville, MA

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