once upon a time…
no castle, no crown…
just a girl with an idea… and far too many sparks in her head…
and somewhere between the pixels…
between thoughts… between feelings…
something began to form… a community....
do you remember that moment…
when someone looks at your image…
and sees something in it you could barely grasp yourself?
sometimes I wonder…
is it real? magic?
isn’t it a little bit magical...
one moment you’re drawing…
and suddenly you find yourself in another world…
like a mirror opening a door…
and the adventure begins...
a world full of pixels…
so vast… some things clear to see…
others still taking shape…
moments filled with wonder...
and inbetween?
you? me. us? :)
we are here…
meeting when we choose to…
encountering each other… and ourselves…
if we allow it...
like in a modern video game…
only we are the main characters of our own adventure…
little magicians...
our magic?
more like a skill tree…
powered by our own superpowers…
love, inspiration, feeling...
almost like a small party of companions…
because as artists… we are never truly alone...
I close my eyes…
and see myself surrounded by traits…
little parts of me like party members…
supporting me along the way...
I close my eyes…
I see the dreamer…
I see hope…
courage… joy…
I see gratitude...
what do you see…
when you close your eyes?
who walks beside you?
if your traits were little virtual beings…
who would be with you? :)
I see you…
and I am grateful that we meet through our images...
a little like art class back in school…
like a coin…
with two sides...
and yes… maybe even like an achievemet?
for completing a quest…
only this one can be repeated ^^
successful… right?
what I mean?
well… art class…
or rather… the inbetween…
two sides of the same coin...
the act of drawing…
creating… shaping…
lines guided by feeling…
something emerges…
something I’ve always loved…
and still love today...
and then…
the exchange… the togetherness...
hours upon hours…
talking about our works…
about the works of others…
but also about ourselves...
aren’t we all little artists?
different styles…
each with something else in mind...
and we?
we listened to each other…
with wonder… admiration…
and surprise...
sometimes you didn’t expect it at all…
and sometimes… when someone opened up…
they shared something personal…
a memory…
an impulse…
a thought...
something that inspired them...
and sometimes you saw something in an image…
and were surprised
what others saw in it…
and in your own...
you felt seen ☺
simple… real...
sometimes even things
you didn’t consciously notice…
suddenly became visible…
and sometimes…
that’s where connections were born...
and that’s exactly how civitai feels to me…
just that I’m not sitting in a classroom…
but at my pc…
sometimes on the couch… with my iPad :D
but always connected…
connected with you...
we…
a community…
a shared space...
yes… that’s who we are…
and that’s what we do ^^
we create together…
we share…
we show ourselves to one another…
in so many ways...
and I just want to say thank you…
thank you for being who you are…
and thank you for dancing between the pixels with me… ♥
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with ♥ Reij