Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.
(From left to right: Rock Lobster P1 and P2, Maniac, Let’s Go To The Mall, Cotton Eye Joe)
(and of course, Discoball)
I got tons of new beads over Easter weekend and I finally got to utilize a lot of them here. These coaches were overall just really fun to make, since I do have a soft spot for several older-era coaches. I decided to throw Discoball in there as a bonus challenge, and I like how it turned out.
i think about hua cheng and how he must have taught himself how to sculpt, how his first creations must have been so ugly he couldn't bear to look at them, considering them a mockery of his god. did he practise on other figures first? how many times did he throw away his tools in frustration, saying that he was too stupid, too unskilled, too crude, only to pick them up again because it was one of the only ways he had left of worshipping his god, because he was the only remaining worshipper of his god? (if not him, who will carve xie lian? who else remembers his god's face and loves it dearly? who else will erect temples in his name and pray to him, for him?)
did hua cheng turn his fortune around, or did he create it? after all, creation is his strong suit.
This is one of my favorite things about Scarlet/Violet , I think it's so important that even in Pokémon games we can talk about mental health and psychological trauma.