NOT THIS TIME! The results are in, and I didn't make the cut again this year. It's ok, though, surprisingly. I don't feel my cheeks burning with shame; that subsided a few minutes ago... Last year I really took it hard, and hid under the covers for a day, feeling utterly cast aside and trampled …
I Am Crushing It
Endless reality, it's always here- even before I open my eyes. Reverberating. Agonizing in it, I try to back away from it, back into my dreams. It is futile. The reality encroaches, angry at being left waiting. . My eyes reluctantly open, brows already furrowed. I will certainly have that deep furrow between my eyes …
You Are What You ART
Feeding the Inner Creative What motivates you to create your art? When you hit a snag, where do you go to get your spark back? If I'm not careful, when I hit a slump I binge watch murder documentaries... Not good creative fodder. That just brings out negative vibes for me. So what I do …
The Grateful Artist
I will
A CLEAN SLATE
oh so WHITE AND SHINY... Waiting for my pen, for my brush. I just cant stand the barrenness of it, stretching of into the infinite distance, saying nothing. I cant sit in silence either, in a social setting. I would be awful in an interrogation, babbling mindlessly- wait... not mindlessly. I do get chatty, but …
DEEP DIVE:
how it feels to be ME... ___________}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{__________ This is the call prospectus; I will somehow communicate visually to you (since I am a visual artist) the feeling of being Bipolar. My inner workings, tickings, thinkings: the fears and joys, ups and downs, backward-and-forward loves and hates...ALL the fuzzies , and the rough edges, swirly thoughts …
That Happy Poor Girl
"It's ALL a gift..."
Busting Out All Over/Head Banging
DID you ever feel so immobilized that you wanted to EXPLODE?!? WELL, I DO!! I am so sick of myself, so tired of being tired, so FRUSTRATED at my own inertia that I could scream. I don't think it's "Long Covid" . I think it's " I'm a Super Lazy LOSER!!" (as I look back …
The Days of Trouble Begin
"...I will carry the Hurt. But it will NOT defeat me...)
For The Love of DETAIL
The Magic Bus AT ALTITUDE / SUSAN TODD MARTIN 2022 New art, the tiny line moving across the canvas. my pin-dot imaginary School Bus driving thru a blazing white desert.(That's funny, a School Bus! Why not a Mach I , or a horse or something? I'm such a child inside). I spend a lot of …
The Mural Dream of a Cool Kid
"I was high on life, and probably paint fumes and Columbian Gold...it felt cool..."
NO-vid
"I'm back in Black and White, and better than EVER!"
Mania Illuminata goes home!
Mania Illuminata shines in Five Deuces Galleria recently! Me and my shadow!! It has been a long trip but she found a good home!! WHAT a great show this was at Five Deuces Galleria down in St Petersburg this month! I had really been trying to get in a show at this gallery, I felt …
“Ooo, the Girl is GROUCHY!”,
"That's ENOUGH! Now, suck it up and get to work!"
Artist, Paint thyself Well Again…
"I'm climbing out, reaching out...climbing back on that wild-eyed pony..."
SUSAN TODD MARTIN 
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