Bansky, 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. DESIGN ONLY © Anduin Vaid.

Admittedly, I am not very familiar with Bansky’s work, as it seems to be more so political than focused on the actual artistic technique or simple beauty of image, but I agree with the sentiment behind this quote. Furthermore, I understand it, being a luckless artist myself–why be miserable hoping some rich person comes along and buys your work when you can apply your talents to a day-to-day job. It may be trading passion for stability, but it is surviving…and at the end of the day, no one cares if another introvert artist slips into the permanent night.

In The Dark, 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. © Anduin Vaid 

The More You Deny Your Humanity , 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. © Anduin Vaid 

You Turned Me Into Love 7 , 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. © Anduin Vaid 

A close up of the giant mixed media painting I’ve been caressing over the months…

If Half The Human Population… , 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. © Anduin Vaid 

A piece taken from one of my many writings, then put to some digital “dressing.” I have so many of these pieces–concentrated descriptive emotive writings–that I’ve, from time to time, made sections of graphic novels with them.

Prints available starting at $7. Go to my etsy shop to see this and more prints available: www.etsy.com/shop/vaid

For years I designed/drew tattoos, having compiled a small collection of ideas together that were to be tattoos I would have done on myself. Then, as I am want to get rid of my work once it is done, as for I take pleasure in the process of creation but rarely care for the finished product, I sold my self-tattoo ideas (all of them) to a couple. This photo remains as my only self-tattoo idea, but the significance that the simple heart stands for has not been reached yet…nor may ever…so at least for now, I remain tattoo-less.

However, I have done various other people’s tattoo designs over the years, most recently a few months back drawing up one for the president of the resort I work for. I will get one done, eventually, although it will have to be right–it will have to be perfect–so it will most likely be some time. Thoughts? 

Time Forgets Us All… , 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. © Anduin Vaid (quote only)

A piece taken from one of my many writings, then put to some digital “dressing.” I have so many of these pieces–concentrated descriptive emotive writings–that I’ve, from time to time, made sections of graphic novels with them.

Prints available starting at $7. Go to my etsy shop to see this and more prints available: www.etsy.com/shop/vaid

Faces, 2012, Dimensions N/A, digital media. © Anduin Vaid

We live willfully ignorant of our mortality, overvaluing youth yet curiously obsessed with death simultaneously. 

Prints available starting at $7. Go to my etsy shop to see this and more prints available: www.etsy.com/shop/vaid