
You Can Love Your Bad Art and Want to Improve — Here's the Difference That Matters
Think accepting your art means never growing as an artist? It doesn't. Here I explore the real difference between improving from lack vs. improving from joy.
The Bad Art Teacher explores creativity, culture, and the systems that shape them. The Lesson Plan is a content-hub 'blog' that studies what it means to make, to fail, and to free ourselves from the myth of perfection. Personal confessions, cultural critiques, and practical exercises for creative liberation.

Think accepting your art means never growing as an artist? It doesn't. Here I explore the real difference between improving from lack vs. improving from joy.

Sharing a perspective that helped me deepen into the philosophy of Art as Process, notes on patriarchal & capitalist objectification in Western society, and thoughts on art as a noun.

This post addresses why ‘AI art’ conflicts with the philosophy of bad art, and why the human process, not the output, is what truly matters.

An honest confession about a recent paint night, and my reflections on this experience with piece of art work that I claimed to hate before I was even done with it.

Exploring what it really means to ‘finish’ a piece of art, our relationship to our work, and why the last mark isn’t inherently more legitimate than the first. Reorienting towards iteration and discovery and away from the manufactured requirement for output to open to new possibilities.

Investigating assumptions around the term ‘bad art’ from a culture-critical lens, reflecting on why I chose the word ‘bad’, and defining Bad Art and who it is for.

We are taught that unfinished creative work is shameful, useless, or worthless — but this belief is manufactured by oppressive cultural systems, not by truth. This post opens an exploration of this myth from many angles.

A Starter Kit for When You Want to Make Something But Every Idea Feels Wrong, Blank, or Too Much
A bite-sized musing on how chaos, intuition, and messiness shape creativity far more than order ever could.

We didn’t invent our ideas of “good art” — we inherited them from colonial, capitalist systems that gatekeep beauty and creativity. This piece unpacks how “bad art” becomes a form of resistance: a way to unlearn the rules, reclaim intuition, and make art that serves you, not the hierarchy.
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