I reposted the painting because I forgot to add an image description although I wish someone else would write the descriptions for me because if I knew how to say it I wouldn't need to paint it.
Like, here is one from December 2014 https://idiomdrottning.org/its_rare_for_a_reason.png
That would probably be much easier for someone else to describe than for me. Since I don't know how many of the painting's secrets are obvious or what the first impression is.

It's easier when pictures have semantic components like https://idiomdrottning.org/isaiah-forty-six.png ("arms braided together") or consists of well-known geometry like https://idiomdrottning.org/i_only_wanted_for_you_what_you_wanted_for_yourself.png ("circles and ellipses in a mix of sharp and soft, such as that the sharpness travels across the collection as a whole")

But sometimes I just wanna paint something that (at least as far as I know) is new. Something I wanna reach out and touch or listen to but don't wanna dissect. Not saying they're so darn special and above all dissection or description. But, it's difficult for me to be the one to do that. It's like cooking food but then serving takeout.

When I did Inktober I wanted to give the alt-text community poems instead, and I did, and I kept wishing that I wished that people could get either the poem or the picture but not both so that everyone would have something just for them instead of reduncdancy, but in hindsight many of those images did have at least some semantic components. Should've and could've just described them normally. ("Girl in book.") But I also sometimes like to paint weird things that I can't put into words myself.
I get that I come across as super pretentious and seems full of myself and full of the kind of 1 AM pretentiousness that people are gonna make fun of 🤦🏻‍♀️
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