The struggle is real peeps... Making Art While Learning Everything Else

Holy cannoli, this has taken me months. Too many months.

As you probably know by now, my knowledge is in art, not in Shopify. I know how to paint, not technical stuff like setting up payment solutions and things like that.

But Shopify, TikTok, and blog posts are clearly necessary today if I want to get out there and show my art. So here I am :P

But hey, I won’t complain. I’m embracing it. And if I’m lucky, I’ll make it through with my hair still on my head and without my stress-triggered seborrheic eczema taking over. Wish me luck.

Women have always had to take longer routes to be taken seriously in creative fields. In the 1800s, most women were excluded from formal art education. The École des Beaux-Arts in Paris didn’t admit women until 1897. Before that, many women learned privately, if they were allowed to learn at all.

Honestly, I still find it completely insane that women were once considered incapable of making art worth recognizing, or earning their own money. As if creativity, skill, and ambition were somehow gendered traits.

The broader women’s movement followed the same slow pattern. The first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848. New Zealand became the first country to grant women the right to vote in 1893. Norwegian women followed in 1913. These weren’t symbolic milestones. They changed who could earn money, make decisions, and live independently.

And yet, in many parts of the world, women are still seen as less important, expected to serve and reproduce.

This is not ancient history. In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls pointed out that less than five percent of artists shown in major modern art museums were women. That’s recent history, and it’s a reminder that we still have work to do.

I’m still figuring out what this blog will be. The content, the toneand the direction. I know I want it to be personal, to follow my art, and at the same time be useful and educational in some way. And maybe, over time, it can become something more. A small community connected through rebellious art, shared knowledge, and a sense of justice.

I’m building FF Rebel slowly, and I’m far from finished. There’s more coming, and I look forward to sharing what I’m working on.

— FF Rebel