Hello world! Welcome to my website and personal design project. My name is Ana and I had a Geocities like this when I was in middle school. I am a person with interests. Right now I am learning front-end development to build this website, but I have also been a professional baker. If you are Thomas Keller or some other celebrity chef looking for a talented pastry chef and baker and are willing to pay 60k-70k annually, you can find my portfolio here. Currently I work in a screenprinting factory and I create my own print designs in my spare time. I consider myself an artist, an intuitive, and a life-long learner. My dream job would be a historical costume designer. I know how to make bobbin lace. I sew and create original garments and then print on them, you can find them on my depop.

To quote the great Fred Durst, "Everything is fucked and everybody sucks." I wish we didn't have to make money to live and pay for basic necessities with our labor and time. I worry nonstop about why my cards dealt weren't luckier, why wasn't a born brilliant or into heaps of legacy wealth, so I wouldn't have to worry about struggling financially, compromising my dreams, health, and wants, or suffering needlessly as I age. Why can't people in power just be good to us? Our meritocracy forces us to place the burden of our successes and freedom from financial burden squarely on our own shoulders, despite many external obstacles that prevent us from doing so unencumbered. Anyone familiar with Freakonomics, or really anyone familiar with the cause and effect relationship between supply and demand, would know that many seemingly unrelated factors in society affect our ability to thrive. I for one, suffer with mental illness. I believe it was Bob Black who theorized that anxiety and depression were symptomatic of our oppressive capitalist society. That if our basic needs were cared for, perhaps through advancements in AI, that mental illness would decline.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes, but if no one is around to make a TikTok of it, then it may well not have. I feel this way about my creative life. Artistry is so dependant on social media that its nauseating. Social media is an antiquated system. I see its death, but how far off is it? And will any artist survive this altered media landscape whenever it happens? I can't bring myself to be a dancing monkey for a passive audience when this system is so obviously unsustainable. This area of the web boggles my mind. TikTok is so new, but the idea is so old. How did people discover art before? How much pandering do I need to do? This quandry stifles my imagination and is so distracting from the act of creating. I have such a hard time with merging art and capital, and yet the grind never stops.