Category: Consciousness

• BATHROOM CONFESSIONS (but make it art) — Entry No. 3

  July 23, 2025

  Consciousness, Mixed media, PhD

  art, bathroom-walls, communication, creativity, identity, life, Media ecology, mental-health, mindfulness, painting, PhD, public-art, purpose, rhetoric, writing

  If you’re just tuning in: I’ve been turning a downtown bathroom into a mural — part confession booth, part existential doodle, part “is the person that painted this okay?”  If you pay attention, life is strange a lot of the time. Today, while bouncing between mural layers and mild delusion, I saw a coffee shop…

• BATHROOM CONFESSIONS (but make it art) — Entry No. 2

  July 22, 2025

  Art.tif, Books, Consciousness, Media ecology, Mixed media, PhD, Reading, Uncategorized

  art, creativity, diy, identity, life, Media ecology, mindfulness, painting, PhD, writing

  On outlines, color hacks, and trash that isn’t trash. The purple flowers in the women’s bathroom are coming to life — I added brown outlines yesterday, and they’re giving everything more structure, more focus. Funny how one color can change the entire energy of a wall. I also started in the men’s bathroom. The boys…

• THE SCROLL TOLL

  July 12, 2025

  Art.tif, Consciousness, Media ecology, PhD, Reading

  health, identity, internet, life, Media ecology, mental-health, mindfulness, philosophy, presence, purpose, scroll, social-media, wellness, writing

  There’s a value to everything. A cost to consume. Scrolling screens doesn’t ask for your money upfront, but it does take your time, distract your focus, and reconstitute your sense of self. It’s like a toll booth you barely notice, charging you second by second, swipe by swipe. There’s always noise, always ads. Always reminders…

• LISA MONA

  June 26, 2025

  Art.tif, Consciousness, Media ecology, Mixed media, PhD, Uncategorized

  Habitual regret maintenance  Sad jobs and small lives  Still Facebook friends in a normalized comparative social voyeurism kind of way. What a loud lonely. Tune in to your favorite ideation station. We consume and call it rest. We leave no space and say we have no time, when we have decided both the value and…