I didn’t end up posting them last year but besides my Instagram Top Nine, it’s also fun to post my Bottom Nine! The results are always interesting. For instance, my automatic drawings are often the least liked but they’re the most fun for me to make. However, when I clean them up and turn them into digital pieces, they end up being the most liked! I guess this is the creative process at work.

Grid of nine art and ceramic excerpts by Jesse Baggs under the text, “Bottom Nine 2025.”

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Here they are, starting with least liked and moving upward. Click the links to see each image in all its non-preferred glory, and/or follow me on Instagram @hardpressedjess.

  1. “Tread”
  2. “All I Want”
  3. “The Gil Kane Special”
  4. “Superhero”
  5. “Fireball”
  6. “Rise”
  7. “Lumpy Clay Pieces”
  8. “Bee Keeping [Psychedelic Version]”
  9. “Her Cup of Stars”