Can we be honest with you for a second? We love email. We really do. But there's just sooooo much of it asking for your attention these days, every inbox is a hundred hands reaching out at once, and ours was just one more. I actually have 5 figures in emails, sounds impressive, nah it's intimidating.
That's not who we want to be to you.
So we're going old school. We're taking our power back, and honestly, we're giving it back to you too.
That means no more showing up in your inbox trying to catch you at the right dopamine-hit moment. Instead, this blog, on our own site, sitting quietly until you want it.
You get to decide when you read what's happening with us.
- Maybe that's the second we post it.
- Maybe it's three months from now on a random Tuesday when you're bored and curious.
- Either way, it's here, waiting, on your terms, not ours.
What Studio SHIM Is
- We're murals.
- We're sound alchemists.
- We're visionary artist.
- We're conscious creators.
- We're community builders.
- We're land stewards.
- We're vegans.
- We're alcohol free living.
- We're just us, Shane and Kim, building things with our hands, walls, songs, mail, voice and sound.
We were never going to pick one lane, and we've stopped explaining why. We are who we are. This is where all of it lives, instead of scattered across five feeds in many posts and an inbox nobody asked to be crowded.
Photo by Belinda J Clements
What's Actually Been Happening
We haven't been quiet because there's nothing to say. Quite the opposite.
TATOE's new track, "Nature Knows," dropped last Friday on Bandcamp and right here. Shane hand-drew the cover art on his tablet. Proud of all of our skills coming together to create this magic.
Drawn by Shane Wilcox
Also, the first piece of our SHIM SEALED DELIVERED Visionary Art Club us "Lil' Duck," painted together with our community at Earthsong Festival, and part of every mailing goes back to helping people afford to be there next year. Paper, not a screen. Slow, on purpose.
Maybe you're looking for something more, I invite you to Order a high quality reproduction with our pARTner Pictorem, tariff FREE with FREE delivery to Canada and USA.
or if you're an artist and interested in this partnership, click HERE to check em' out and sign up, It's FREE unless you get the premium like we do. The upgrade is worth it for all of our collectors to receive a letter of authenticity with every work of our heART.
UPDATE on the book that Shane illustrated called Today's Feels Sunny. It's in the last revision stage, gotta figure out this barcode issue, but we didn't know how to create a book, and here we are, with the writing and help our friend Tabby, we're making it happen together.
Very Soon there will be a product page here to order a copy through us, or it will be available on Amazon for quick sales & printing around the world.
Photo by Belinda J Clements
Now, What This Blog Will Be
Not polished, not scheduled to death. Studio updates while they're still messy. The thinking behind a mural before it's finished. What's on our minds (eeeek, I know, you don't have to read) New tracks as they land. The real version of building something like this as a team.
No pressure to keep up with us. No push notifications, no "you might have missed this." Just a door we're leaving open, for whenever it's good for you.
Glad to be writing to you again.
Kimberly, Studio SHIM