WHAT IF THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA
What would you do if you actually needed someone to know something?
You’d call. You’d send a direct message. You’d say it, out loud, directly, to their face.
That’s the thing about social media that doesn’t get talked about enough. It gave us a way to communicate without communicating. To be seen without being known. To send a signal without taking responsibility for the signal.
Like a narcissist baiting their next supply.
Sacred Wild: Creation Phase Snippet
Welcome to the second half of 2006!
A glimpse into the process behind recent digital artworks. Every piece begins somewhere.
KARMA
Bali doesn’t let you forget it.
It’s woven into the offerings left at every threshold, into the incense that rises before the day begins, into the way Balinese people move through life. Not asking why did this happen to me, but what did I bring to this.
Karma, in its truest form, isn’t punishment. It isn’t cosmic revenge. It’s continuity. The law that says: energy doesn’t disappear. It returns to its source, in form, in feeling, in circumstance. Always shaped by what was sent out first.
In Bali, you see this lived rather than merely believed. The daily canang sari, flowers, rice, incense, intention, isn’t superstition. It’s an act of conscious return. I give, so that what circulates comes back whole.
But the thing is, it’s not the gesture that travels. It’s the intention beneath it.
Notes from Bali, on Women
I thought manipulation was an unhealthy masculine energy.
Strategic, calculated, moving pieces around a board. It seemed to fit. Masculine energy operates through action and outcome. It shapes circumstances. So manipulation, with all its orchestration, felt like it belonged there.
And feminine energy, by contrast, is honest. Vulnerable. Open. It asks for what it needs directly, trusting that showing up as itself is enough. Manipulation felt like the opposite of that. So masculine by default, right?
But then I reconsidered.
Because toxic femininity isn’t masculine. It isn’t strategic confidence either.
It’s something else entirely.
The “shadow” feminine.
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