River and Celia in Underland
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Mad-hap shenanigans, scrawlings, art and stuff ;)
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face lift: Digital and Machine Artists. Top Story - May 2025.
Last week, we focused on outsider artists and creators whose work actively resists the mainstream. From fabric artists reclaiming undervalued mediums to visionaries like Henry Darger and Aloïse Corbaz, we explored how deeply personal, often hidden work can stand in radical opposition to capitalist, algorithm-driven aesthetics. If anything lives far from the reach of artificial intelligence, it's the tactile intimacy of embroidery or the obsessive, unmarketed sprawl of outsider art.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Art
Face Lift: Reflection
It’s been a week of outsider artists and experimenters — makers on the margins, visionaries without audiences, people who created not for praise or prestige, but because they had no other choice. I’ve always felt drawn to that. The compulsion to create, to make sense of a world that often doesn’t. That urge has always felt familiar.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Art
Poe 'Vices
Introducing Poe ‘Vices: Life Advice You Definitely Didn’t Ask For or Need. From chaos gremlin to cosmic counsellor, Poe (The infinite, scream-Beam) is now solving your deepest problems with her signature style: shouting, biting things, and chicken, obvs. Fools.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Motivation
face lift: Clarice Lispector
“All the world began with a yes.” — Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector was born in Ukraine in 1920 to a Jewish family fleeing anti-Semitic violence, and raised in Brazil, where she would become one of the most revered literary voices in the country’s history. She published her first novel at just 23, rewriting the possibilities of Portuguese-language literature with a voice that was intimate, fragmented, and transcendent. Her writing is often called mystical, philosophical, and feminine—not because it conforms to traditional expectations, but because it defies them. She was a novelist, a journalist, a mother, a question—one who lived between languages, between worlds. She died in 1977, just a day before her 57th birthday, after a long battle with cancer.
By River and Celia in Underland 10 months ago in Art
face lift: Henry Darger
In the Realms of the Unreal: Henry Darger What about the artists who reject everything except the act of making? The ones who work in secret, behind closed doors, meticulously constructing entire worlds no one else will ever see.
By River and Celia in Underland 10 months ago in Art
Poe 'Vices
Introducing Poe ‘Vices: Life Advice You Definitely Didn’t Ask For or Need. From chaos gremlin to cosmic counsellor, Poe (The infinite, scream-Beam) is now solving your deepest problems with her signature style: shouting, biting things, and chicken, obvs. Fools.
By River and Celia in Underland 10 months ago in Motivation
fAce lIft
This post originally appeared on our blog and is part of an ongoing thought experiment using my art and AI. I’ve been thinking a lot about the somewhat evil ways people use AI. Both Celia and I have been members of Vocal for a while — in fact, it’s where we met. Lately, the site has been experiencing some issues due to bot attacks. The team there recently published a post explaining how much it’s been affecting the platform. Since these are writers I know and care about, I wanted to do a little digging.
By River and Celia in Underland 10 months ago in 01
