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If Dominic Mephitto would have just cut off his tail he could've passed for a normal human quite well.
I feel the same way about art. I should have kept walking.
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In the third week of October, I decided to check out a small boat launch and nature area situated in the middle of an industrial area I remember visiting once roughly 15 years ago. This area is very near a couple locations my dad would take me in the 1990s, he would "fish" (read, "drink a couple beers and get away from mom while having a fishing pole and a bucket with him") while I'd wander around, carrying my BB gun and shooting at empty cans and random bugs and stuff (thankfully, I was taught proper respect for property and structures and whatnot, so I made sure to not aim in the direction of any buildings or infrastructure or anything, although on one occasion a ricochet did manage to chip the windshield of whatever beater car the family was using that year), although the area I am most nostalgic for has long since been fenced off and would not have been easily accessible from said boat launch/nature area anyways due to being at least a couple miles away from where I parked.
Not a lot had really changed, yet things had definitely changed. The small pocket of trees has some trails winding through it, and while the trails were fairly new all those years ago, they were certainly showing some signs of age, with tree roots breaking through them in spots. There had once been a pond or similar body of standing water in the middle that has since dried up, leaving a depressing, swampy crater and a wooden bridge and observation deck standing over it. A barbed-wire fence separates the nature area from a grassy field and a large factory, the sort of thing that, under evening or early morning skies might really appeal to my "Industrial Gloom" aesthetic tastes, especially the contrast between the wild field and the factory.
Overall, I'd describe the area as "pleasant but unremarkable", and "more of the same" compared to the usual nature trail I walk--with the added inconvenience of having to drive a lot further to visit this one, and my usual one going far closer to a more visually interesting, old and abandoned brick factory building.
Not yet done walking, I wandered out of the park. There's a rail line running into the factory and running perpendicular to an aging city street, the old road lined with a few other industrial sites, and it was during that little tangent that my phone's camera got the most work. I certainly prefer evenings and cloud cover over bright midday when it comes to aesthetics, but I still managed to get a couple shots that I thought were interesting and the sort of things I'd love to use as the background to art if I hadn't long since realized that art really didn't have any purpose or place in my life anymore.
Unfortunately, most of my "photography" falls into this category, as it's not particularly skillful nor interesting on its own, and while my phone camera takes excellent pictures without zooming, using the zoom at all quickly makes things quite crunchy and pixelated (and I lack both the financial security to purchase a proper camera *and* the patience and time to learn how to use a proper camera properly), meaning any pivot to being a photographer is highly unlikely. I also, out of habit most likely, favor taking photos from an angle where I could slap one of my boring, repetitive, obese cartoon animals lazily on top of them with minimal effort.
There's significant overlap in the aesthetics I associate with various prominent characters of mine, especially the Reynard Twins, Nick Domnall, and Dominic Mephitto, the latter two having heavy associations with industrial and urban gloom aesthetics, but what sets Mephitto apart from Domnall is probably the association with empty, aging streets and railroad tracks, river banks and bridges and railroad trestles, and the fields and small wooded areas between it all. The land fenced and gated off and marked with "NO TRESPASSING" signs after being snapped up by companies and corporate entities and (thankfully) left unused but denying access to people that might want to go fishing or just wander by the river for a while. And the lower-income neighborhoods bordering the areas, the little shops long since closed and abandoned or seeing a revolving door of random "boutiques" that never last a second year, and the aging industrial sites that continue to crawl and limp along at a mere fraction of their long-lost capacity to produce, and financially support the region or are left sitting silent and decaying.
"Rust Belt Gloom", perhaps, or "Midwest Gloom" since a lot of my aesthetic tastes also include the rural areas adjacent to these industrial sites. There's just something I find visually pleasing about a farm field, and beyond it a small wooded area, and looming in the distance, some sort of large industrial building.
Either way, I try to keep my general whereabouts sorta private, although I know at least some of the locations are visually distinct enough to be identifiable to some, and when browsing around Fur Affinity in the past I saw at least three different users who had either photographed or drawn locations I recognized. I thought about reaching out, but figured it would be extremely creepy for some unknown person to be like "hey I've never once interacted with you in any way whatsoever but I saw your drawing of the house on the corner of Herp and Derp Streets and I recognized it, they remodeled recently" or "oh hey, that's at the end of Road, I walk by there quite often". I'm sure if I somehow encountered them IRL we'd chat and not even know who the other was, aside from the one that has photos of themselves in costume sometimes...
As time goes on, I often wonder what could have been had I not wasted so many years sitting on my ass drawing boring and repetitive garbage featuring cartoon animals, but then I realize that had I actually tried to "make something" of my life, I'd probably still be where I am, but maybe with a bit of work experience from a factory job I would have lost a decade ago anyways rather than only a couple years of grocery and nearly a decade of fast food...
I should have kept walking.
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I feel the same way about art. I should have kept walking.
Find Me On:
FurAffinity ◈ Weasyl ◈ Ko-Fi
In the third week of October, I decided to check out a small boat launch and nature area situated in the middle of an industrial area I remember visiting once roughly 15 years ago. This area is very near a couple locations my dad would take me in the 1990s, he would "fish" (read, "drink a couple beers and get away from mom while having a fishing pole and a bucket with him") while I'd wander around, carrying my BB gun and shooting at empty cans and random bugs and stuff (thankfully, I was taught proper respect for property and structures and whatnot, so I made sure to not aim in the direction of any buildings or infrastructure or anything, although on one occasion a ricochet did manage to chip the windshield of whatever beater car the family was using that year), although the area I am most nostalgic for has long since been fenced off and would not have been easily accessible from said boat launch/nature area anyways due to being at least a couple miles away from where I parked.
Not a lot had really changed, yet things had definitely changed. The small pocket of trees has some trails winding through it, and while the trails were fairly new all those years ago, they were certainly showing some signs of age, with tree roots breaking through them in spots. There had once been a pond or similar body of standing water in the middle that has since dried up, leaving a depressing, swampy crater and a wooden bridge and observation deck standing over it. A barbed-wire fence separates the nature area from a grassy field and a large factory, the sort of thing that, under evening or early morning skies might really appeal to my "Industrial Gloom" aesthetic tastes, especially the contrast between the wild field and the factory.
Overall, I'd describe the area as "pleasant but unremarkable", and "more of the same" compared to the usual nature trail I walk--with the added inconvenience of having to drive a lot further to visit this one, and my usual one going far closer to a more visually interesting, old and abandoned brick factory building.
Not yet done walking, I wandered out of the park. There's a rail line running into the factory and running perpendicular to an aging city street, the old road lined with a few other industrial sites, and it was during that little tangent that my phone's camera got the most work. I certainly prefer evenings and cloud cover over bright midday when it comes to aesthetics, but I still managed to get a couple shots that I thought were interesting and the sort of things I'd love to use as the background to art if I hadn't long since realized that art really didn't have any purpose or place in my life anymore.
Unfortunately, most of my "photography" falls into this category, as it's not particularly skillful nor interesting on its own, and while my phone camera takes excellent pictures without zooming, using the zoom at all quickly makes things quite crunchy and pixelated (and I lack both the financial security to purchase a proper camera *and* the patience and time to learn how to use a proper camera properly), meaning any pivot to being a photographer is highly unlikely. I also, out of habit most likely, favor taking photos from an angle where I could slap one of my boring, repetitive, obese cartoon animals lazily on top of them with minimal effort.
There's significant overlap in the aesthetics I associate with various prominent characters of mine, especially the Reynard Twins, Nick Domnall, and Dominic Mephitto, the latter two having heavy associations with industrial and urban gloom aesthetics, but what sets Mephitto apart from Domnall is probably the association with empty, aging streets and railroad tracks, river banks and bridges and railroad trestles, and the fields and small wooded areas between it all. The land fenced and gated off and marked with "NO TRESPASSING" signs after being snapped up by companies and corporate entities and (thankfully) left unused but denying access to people that might want to go fishing or just wander by the river for a while. And the lower-income neighborhoods bordering the areas, the little shops long since closed and abandoned or seeing a revolving door of random "boutiques" that never last a second year, and the aging industrial sites that continue to crawl and limp along at a mere fraction of their long-lost capacity to produce, and financially support the region or are left sitting silent and decaying.
"Rust Belt Gloom", perhaps, or "Midwest Gloom" since a lot of my aesthetic tastes also include the rural areas adjacent to these industrial sites. There's just something I find visually pleasing about a farm field, and beyond it a small wooded area, and looming in the distance, some sort of large industrial building.
Either way, I try to keep my general whereabouts sorta private, although I know at least some of the locations are visually distinct enough to be identifiable to some, and when browsing around Fur Affinity in the past I saw at least three different users who had either photographed or drawn locations I recognized. I thought about reaching out, but figured it would be extremely creepy for some unknown person to be like "hey I've never once interacted with you in any way whatsoever but I saw your drawing of the house on the corner of Herp and Derp Streets and I recognized it, they remodeled recently" or "oh hey, that's at the end of Road, I walk by there quite often". I'm sure if I somehow encountered them IRL we'd chat and not even know who the other was, aside from the one that has photos of themselves in costume sometimes...
As time goes on, I often wonder what could have been had I not wasted so many years sitting on my ass drawing boring and repetitive garbage featuring cartoon animals, but then I realize that had I actually tried to "make something" of my life, I'd probably still be where I am, but maybe with a bit of work experience from a factory job I would have lost a decade ago anyways rather than only a couple years of grocery and nearly a decade of fast food...
I should have kept walking.
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Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Kemonomimi
Size 2478 x 1487px
File Size 5.29 MB
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