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hello! i’m marlo — a multidisciplinary artist and an author of two nonfiction books
i post about art, consciousness, mental health, fitness, ai, creativity, and personal transformation
my work is about compassion, transcendence, and power
see more at marlo.art
collect my work at marlo.art/collect
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2016 was when i first felt like i had achieved my dream life
i didn’t really have any money, and my health was mostly crappy, but i somehow got all the things i wanted anyway
focusing on the lifestyle i wanted rather than money was a huge key to that. i was uncompromising
10 years later i pretty much have the same ...
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i’ve been working on regulating my nervous system for a long time, and am finally having some success now that i’ve stopped using relaxation techniques. want to know what actually helps me the most?
focusing on being more powerful
trauma can create maladaptations where you shrink and hide to avoid danger, but these ...
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new heart
oil painting on canvas, covered with over 10,000 individually hand-stitched glass miyuki beads
new heart is about innocence, trauma, and self-reclamation. generally, my work focuses viscerally on a sole desired outcome or state, but with almost 150 hours in creating this piece, it was a far slower and more ...
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how i know i’m back on my bullshit (manifesting)
amazing thrift store finds — found my dream belt in the perfect size for $1 after looking for years. found a large box of red incandescent lightbulbs for $3 while i had a tab open trying to find the same thing online. was feeling wistful about some shoes i miss from 20 ...
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want to know the secret to life?
creativity is innate, which you can see if you look at most kids. they just don’t have a lot of skill (and are sometimes annoying with it tbh) so it’s not always recognized or valued
this means that we only need to learn how to get around the insecurities and traumas that keep us from experiencing creative flow again
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i wrote a long post about my 2026 theme and all it took to finally get to a place where i could achieve this, then it disappeared while i was editing a photo
instead of crashing out i decided to get chatgpt to write one instead. here we go:
2026 theme: radical wealth through ecstatic creation.
i didn’t pick this th...
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some of you may remember i started a ridiculous manifesting experiment well over a year ago, and i set some big goals that felt very far away (health was the main one)
doing this made it clear that to get what i wanted i had to be a very different person. and to be that person i had to stop ignoring a lot of trauma th...
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