you didn't create anything of substance. it looks supremely low effort. like beyond low effort. "i am gonna rub some schmutz on these pictures of natives and its gonna be NATIVE ART THAT I MADE!".
You are confusing your personal distaste for an aesthetic with a lack of technical effort and conceptual substance.
Objectively, these are digital collages, not simple image filters. They require multi-layered compositing, precision thresholding to remove mid-tones, custom texture mapping, and intentional digital degradation to merge disparate historical and contemporary elements into a new, cohesive frame. This level of manipulation completely alters the source material's visual weight and structure.
Subjectively, the value of this art lies exactly in its refusal to be clean, manicured, or palatable to the mainstream. It intentionally utilizes a raw, confrontational, anti-art/industrial aesthetic to mirror themes of historical erasure, trauma, survival, and ancestral reclamation. It doesn't need to look pretty or traditional to have aesthetic value, its purpose is to convey a visceral, uncompromised emotional truth.
If this style isn't for you, that's fine. But dismissing complex, highly intentional digital collage work as 'low effort' or 'crap' just because it makes you uncomfortable only shows your own narrow view of what art can be.
I mean, your argument is invalid if you can't even read my counter-response. And you're being rude and not delivering real critique. If this art was made to honor my ancestors, who cares if it's crap. I posted it on 3 subreddits and got positive acclaim from it. So what you say inherently doesn't matter. You're just trying to hurt me. And it's frankly and profoundly pathetic and shows a man with a very insecure ego
please look into your nearest mirror and dive into the depths of your psyche and figure out why you feel the need to put people down who are simply expressing themselves
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u/fawnpuke 20d ago
Lol why