New painting, “Blue Rocks”, available at Artfinder

Click on the image above to see more about this painting.

Blue Wave and Dark Continents

Blue Wave by M.K. Hajdin

Dark Continents by M.K. Hajdin

Both of these paintings are currently for sale at Artfinder.

Red red sun

Red red sun by M.K. Hajdin

New painting finished.  It’s 18×24 in, acrylic, for sale at $300.

 

Ash

This is next in my series based on the words that have been deleted from the Oxford Junior English dictionary.   I’ve done “acorn“, “adder” and now “ash”.

 

Ash by M.K. Hajdin

 

Two new pieces

 

Blue Copper 3 by M.K. Hajdin

Here are two of my new paintings.

Red Red Sun by M.K. Hajdin

Quote of the Day: Worthlessness

Blue, White 2 by M.K. Hajdin

I feel like I’m being more true to myself by being essentially worthless in this society.

—Tyler Funk

Me too, Tyler.

Artists are basically worthless to society; there are too many of us, and we produce luxury items that no one really needs in a world with too much luxury for too few.  Disabled people are considered worthless because they can’t slave away to make our corporate overlords even richer.  So being a disabled artist entails double the worthlessness.

But the society we live in is so sick, and its priorities so twisted, that I would hate myself if it ever embraced me, for then I would know I’d gone wrong.

I’m proud not to fit into this sick, sad world.

Quote of the Day: Women and Patriarchy

Iris embroidery by Candace Wheeler   (source)

That women are joining in the disassembling of my appearance is salient.

Patriarchy is not men. It is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

— Ashley Judd

Adder

I’m making a series of paintings based on the words that have been eliminated from the Oxford Junior English Dictionary as no longer relevant to childhood.  This is word #2:  “Adder”.

 

Adder by M.K. Hajdin

Acorn

I’m doing a series of artworks based on the words eliminated from the Oxford Junior English Dictionary as no longer being relevant to childhood.

So here’s the first in the series,  “Acorn”.

 

On losing friends

Flower by Myong Stebbins

It can be hurtful to lose people, but people who won’t even consider the possibility that their behavior is disrespectful are really impossible. 

— Miep Rowan O’Brien