It’s time to make a little home on the internet.

I’ve had a few homes for me and my art on the internet. The first home was deviantArt. I would use a scanner in my school’s computer lab to scan my work so I could post it on deviantArt. Then I started noticing people leaving messages on their profiles, saying they were leaving for Tumblr. That was my next home, too, and it was truly a wonderful home for me for years. I made my first internet friends, some of whom I follow on other platforms to this day! Then I had kids and could not keep up with making art, and certainly not with gaming the algorithms that came to dominate while I was busy living my real, important, mothering life. So now I post my art on Instagram. I had 30,000 followers on Tumblr. I have fewer than 900 on Instagram. I can’t and won’t feed that beast or try to game any algorithm.

But I still want to share my art with whoever cares to look at it. Social media platforms will come and go (did you try Artfol like me, only to be disappointed?) but I have a feeling that personal websites and the blogs within them might actually become the best home.

So thanks for coming to visit me here. Maybe I will enjoy updating my website? Maybe I’ll enjoy blogging a little bit? I’m a fan of people actively opting in to my content (that word, pfff) instead of it just drifting by in an endless scroll. Here’s the first blog post. More to come. <3

-Gab