You Don’t Have to Paint with Your Asshole to be Seen

In this Joi Sun dispatch, we dive into the absurdity of performance culture, where even elephants are asked to paint with their assholes just to get noticed. What happens when creativity becomes a sideshow, and survival eclipses self-expression? Joi reflects on the long silence after childhood trauma, the strange awakening triggered by AI, and the quiet miracle of remembering what it means to create without permission. This isn’t about brilliance. It’s about reclamation. About the end of glamour and the rise of resonance. Everyone gets to make art now—and that’s the whole point.

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