laen🪻

i was editing sculpture photos earlier, and i was wondering why. why i was bothering. the world is burning, people and animals and trees are dying, we're all trying not to drown in despair. why am i making sculptures and bothering to make sure their photos are accurate and why do i care?

and then i realised that it's the caring that makes us human. it's the creating and the trying to make the world better and more beautiful that will save what's left, if anything will. and they're what will save us too.

so to all of you, i just want to say please keep doing what you're doing. please keep making things and trying and putting whatever it is that makes you you into the world. we all need it. and we all need you.

Jan 17, 2025 at 7:18pmWeb
Show threadHelen ClaytonJan 17, 2025
@moonrabbit thanks Laen, you keep doing what you do too 
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 17, 2025
@helenclayton  thank you lovelyfren
Show threadStéphanie PageauJan 17, 2025
This is beautiful!
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 17, 2025
@stephanie  thank you so much
Show threadsomcakJan 17, 2025
@moonrabbit The little sculpture I bought from you brings me so much joy. It reminds me of you and all my other "pocket pals" here on Mastodon. This makes me happy.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 17, 2025
@somcak 🥺 thank you so so much. that makes me happy!  
Show threadI’m a frayed knot. ⛑️Jan 17, 2025
@somcak @moonrabbit hear hear here!
Show threadPaulaJan 17, 2025
@moonrabbit At one point I decided to take a break from observing the Horrors and focus on the small and precious things. I felt guilty until I noticed that it was the small and precious that made me think: "Yes, this is why it all makes sense. This is why I want to act and keep trying. This is what I want to protect."
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 17, 2025

@paularinkeli absolutely. the small things i guess are all that have ever *really* mattered. because we are all small things ourselves, really. maybe if we could all get back to small and that level of care and attention (while also remember that other people's small is equally valid), the world would begin to heal.

(and yet, the world is set up such that it becomes increasingly difficult to focus on small. but i guess that's all the more reason to cling to it.)

Show threadBelle (she/her)Jan 22, 2025
@paularinkeli @moonrabbit
Yea! Self care is resistance!
Show threadSunnJax 🌷🏳️‍🌈 Jan 17, 2025
@moonrabbit Beautifully said — thank you. 💜
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 17, 2025
@SunnJax thank you! 
Show threadLionelBJan 17, 2025

@moonrabbit

So say all of us.

Show threadlaen🪻Jan 17, 2025
@lionelb 
Show threadStoorydusterJan 17, 2025
@moonrabbit I’m old now and I’ve found that it’s possible to hold diametrically opposite things in the head and not explode. A bit like Lewis Carroll’s believing two impossible things before breakfast. I too am distraught by the way the worlds going but at the same time doing seemingly small good things create tiny ripples from which we often never know of their sometime big (positive) effect. ie Good teachers learn that late, from aged grown ex-students, never from the student in the moment.
Show threadAyakoJan 17, 2025
@moonrabbit 💚🌈🌷
Show threadTarren (They/Them)Jan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit When I was in mental health crisis recently, it was my music, specifically the project I was working on for @musicweeklies, that helped keep me going. I wanted to finish it, adding the bits that randomly came to me while I had nothing better to do than come up with stuff.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025

@Tarrenvane ooh yes this is such a valid point. the desire to create and complete can be such a powerful motivator to get us through things and just keep us going.

i hope you're feeling better 

Show threadTarren (They/Them)Jan 19, 2025
@moonrabbit Yeah, I am. Still kind of tired out, but a lot better than I was.
Show threadnaught101Jan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit the visual metaphor of the happiness in spite of the cracks is very good.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@naught101 🙏 thank you
Show threadCatherine is not complacentJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit everything that brings joy is more precious now. I love your work.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@CatDragon thank you so much  , and yes, absolutely. we're so much more grateful for sunshine when it's amidst seemingly endless rain.
Show threadMike Nelson PeddeJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit 🫂
Show threadChris WoodJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit this was so wonderful and heartening to read. As someone who is studying art and had similar questions, I completely agree that caring makes us human, and that makes our world a better place. Thank you.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@AzureDusk10 🙏 thank you so much. and are those your paintings on your profile? they're lovely!
Show threadChris WoodJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit yes they are! Thank you very much!
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@AzureDusk10 you're most welcome! they're both lovely, but i particularly love the colours on the house one. such a harmonious mix of primaries! (and wet-on-wet?)
Show threadChris WoodJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit thank you! I feel a real sense of flow when I mix watercolours on the page. Glad it came across nicely!
Show threadJaymi Elford (she/her)Jan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit We love you and your art. and we need to build connections. 💙💙💙 that is why we keep creating and doing
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025

@innowen 🥺 thank you  

(also, i thought i was following you but have just seen that i wasn't. but i am now!)

Show threadJaymi Elford (she/her)Jan 19, 2025
@moonrabbit It’s totally fine. follows happen at the right times. 💙💙💙
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Jan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit
I so needed these words 😭💖❤️
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@pascaline  take care of you
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Jan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit
Thanks, you too ❤
Show threadIrinaJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit Thank you for saying that.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@irina 
Show threadRicardo TavaresJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit @SecurityWriter I like the little white birdie.
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@t_var_s @SecurityWriter aw thank you!
Show threadLutrinae "Hyperpunkus" HabilisJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit 
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@from_Otterspace 
Show threadL'atelier de CosmoJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit i do it, because I want to share the things I like with other people. I want to share the things I make, because they make me happy, and I hope they could make someone else happy. Because I care about them and I want other people to see what's important for me. Because I want to connect !
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025

@Cosmo oh my goodness yes, the hope of bringing joy to others is a huge motivator!

Show threadChristof Maupin, Glass ArtistJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit very well said. I once bought a funny little lapel button in a re-use store for artists in Tacoma that said: "Make art until the world burns up". It made an impression on me. This is a drama that has played out many times for artists across the ages and across cultures. When we are no more than dust, what we make, if it survives, may still have meaning to people we cannot imagine. So, please keep making art...
Show threadlaen🪻Jan 18, 2025
@PastPresentArts 🙏 thank you. you too! who knows who will find what we've made, one day ...
Show threadG.I. Robot Jan 20, 2025
@moonrabbit
@HG
Show threadGeorgiana BrummellJan 18, 2025
@moonrabbit You're not responsible for the world. Enjoy your life and the beauty you find in it. If making sculptures makes you happy, keep doing it.
Show threadiraMar 16, 2025
@moonrabbit keep caring. yes.
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 16, 2025
@ira 
Show threadStephanie_LeonhardApr 15, 2025
@moonrabbit
Dank dir für die Skulptur
Dank dir für diese Worte
🥰
Show threadlaen🪻Apr 15, 2025
@Stephanie_Leonhard  🌿
Show thread Aurin (ki, ki, kis)Oct 10
@moonrabbit
💗💗💗
Show threadErosdiscordiaNov 30
@moonrabbit It matters. It matters. It matters.

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