What Is Slow Art? On Time, Attention, and The Sensuality of Creation
"Slow art for a slow life," my tagline as an artist and as a woman who desires to live in the world with a calm nervous system,...
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Cynthia Alexander
- Jun 29
- 9 min
'Poor Kids Don’t Do Art.' Poverty, Principles, and My Forty-Year Journey Back To Painting”
I've been looking though and following more art accounts on Instagram lately, and so IG is recommending more art accounts to me. A few...
Cynthia Alexander
- Jun 20
- 4 min
Monsters as My Safe Place: On Processing Trauma by Creating Things that Go Bump in the Night
CW: sexual trauma *This post was originally published on my former writing blog in April, 2022. Reposting here because, even though I'm...
Cynthia Alexander
- Jun 9
- 10 min
How To Be a Real Girl In a World That Keeps Getting Faker
The rhetorician in me cringes at that title, so let's clarify some terms before we move into this conversation about how to hold onto to...
Cynthia Alexander
- Jun 5
- 5 min
Leaving Happy Breadcrumbs: How I Use Instagram Reels To Help My Mental Health
June is national PTSD awareness month, so every week this month, I'll be writing about my own journey with diagnosed complex-PTSD. Today,...
Cynthia Alexander
- May 18
- 4 min
Poking the Bear: The Challenges of Vlogging With Body Dysmorphia
About a month ago I started a YouTube channel, a vlogging YouTube channel in which I am on camera a lot...all of me. The second I started...
Cynthia Alexander
- May 9
- 5 min
Lessons From the Road: Four Things My Latest Road Trip Taught Me About Being Me*
*It would be helpful if you read my entry, "Talking To Pluto," before reading this entry, but it's not necessary. Let's skip the catchy...
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