HeyJaredstill worm
Philosophical fragments & the residue of my foolish passions.
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Why am I alive? (opens the original)
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My Billion Dollar Life (opens the original)
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Not Art (opens the original)
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26 years old—On the phone, my mom asks me what I’m doing with my life.ASH:I’m painting portraits of my friends’ sex organs.MOM:Why do you have to be like that! Why can’t you just paint something people might actually like, like a landscape! What am I supposed to show my coworkers when I tell them my daughter is an artist? You are so selfish—</b
stray fragments (opens the original)
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flipping through old journals as part of my pact to keep on nodding terms with the person I used to be, whether I like her or not.—Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published—“We’ll never find happiness!” —“I guess we just have to be happy without it!”—“How did I get from fantasies of being the STAR OF THE ART WORLD to being a grocery store clerk?” —"H
An Illustrated Lecture on Meta-art (opens the original)
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