✶⋆.˚𖦹Welcome to the Kandamonium𖦹˚.⋆✶

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Well hello friends, strangers, weirdos, earth walkers, and the like. I’m cordially welcoming you into the Kandamonium: a blog about the life, trials, art, inner workings, and musings of an artist (who goes by the name of Kanda). For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a 32 year old female artist living in West Michigan with my husband and our two kids, plus a slew of messy animals that refuse to pay rent. I feel I am always juggling the work of a stay-at-home mom with the work of an “Up & Coming” artist and that can feel a bit like madness. 2025 was. without a doubt, the worst year of our lives. We navigated through surgery & healing, through loss and a LOT of grief, and through a nation’s “democracy” unraveling seemingly indefinitely. Because of these life-altering events AND the style in which we appreciate a post has shifted so dramatically** I’ve decided to really take a step back from social media sites. I think being strategically informed and only reachable by the best kind of people is the way to continue keeping my mental health in a good place. The world’s tough, amiright? BUT being either slightly narcissistic, or a millennial who has spent years posting something to someone, or perhaps a mixture of the two, I cannot give up posting all together so I’ve decided to start this here blog! It’s really for myself but it will be fun if anyone decides to tag along.

I’m REALLY pumped for this new project, I’m even thinking about doing some sort of logo for The Kandamonium blog! I would even like to dub any reader (and enjoyer, I suppose) of this blog a Kandarchist! I really want this to be a safe space to share my artwork and things that I am currently working on, as well as somewhere to come and share thoughts, ideas, and maybe a few qualms every now and again. Though I’ve mentioned I’m writing for myself, I welcome any and all humans who have a love and respect for nature and towards one another! My next and first official art post will be about my current art project, a work in progress 18x24” acrylic painting on canvas, titled “Hollow Cactus Hotel” and is about the thriving ecosystem of a dead saguaro cactus and the importance of each individual role. I hope to see you there!

xxx, Kanda 𓆉 ⚝

**I felt I had to expand a little more on this but didn’t want to in my earlier paragraph… I just remember when I began sharing art on Instagram years back, 2017?, I’d share an image of a piece of art I had created with a caption and after a few years, my page picked up momentum! I was successfully selling art on my IG and through my stories and was able to open my own commerce website which did really well for the first few years. However, TikTok became popular which then inspired Instagram to make its comparable Reels. Reels are videos, usually shorter in nature, that show a viewer quick content. For artists, it was their art PROCESS which changed and the thrill of creating something and then sharing is now, sadly, more about sharing the process of the creation instead of what is made. It feels performative (which IS itself a form of art) and not about the art piece at all. What happened to art speaking for itself? All right, tangent finished.