⚠ In the middle of reformatting my website - apologies for any elements that display strangely! ⚠
Artist, invertebrate lover and retro tech appreciator based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. I'm constantly experimenting with various traditional and digital mediums, but some of my favourites include linocut, Procreate and Flipnote Studio 3D (yes, on my Nintendo 3DS!). I sometimes table at local art markets and conventions in Southeast Queensland.
This website is a hand-coded pet project that also doubles as my portfolio. Both my art and code are 100% man-made. Thank you for visiting!
You can find more of my work on Instagram, Bluesky and Tumblr.
To-do list
This is a hand-coded amateur website, worked on whenever I have the time and feel like it. As such, there are a number of improvements to be made as I build up my coding skills, but here is a list of just a few goals I have for it.
☐ Improve overall accessibility
☐ Mobile-responsive layout
☐ Replace all images with smaller file versions
☐ Add a lightbox for embedded images in the gallery and event pages
☐ Add more hand-drawn elements
☑ Add a guestbook
☑ Add blog
☑ Add RSS feed
☑ Add fun stuff page
☐ Format blog pages
Update Log
13/03/2026: Added robots.txt and ai.txt. AI crawlers begone.
12/03/2026: Added a miscellaneous page for fun stuff and deploying experimental features.
11/03/2026: Added a blog with an RSS feed, as well as a link to my Etsy shop!
02/03/2026: Tried and failed to reformat some text today.
25/02/2026: Started reformatting the entire website with responsive elements. Added new art to the gallery.
26/01/2026: Added more art to the gallery and made minor tweaks to the events page.
21/11/2025: Updated gallery with a slightly neater layout and added more art. Also made minor updates to home and events pages.
04/07/2025:
- Added an events page to archive events I've tabled at.
- Optimised some coding throughout the entire site. Removed hotlinks (don't hotlink guys!) and made image URLs shorter.
- Home - Added some art and product photos to the homepage.
- Home - Temporarily removed iNaturalist widget since it was increasing loading time. Hopefully I'll be able to put it back later in a more optimal form. In the meantime, check out my iNaturalist observations here!
- Home - Edited my introduction upon realising I mentioned doing experimental art twice in the same paragraph. Oops!
- Gallery - Updated with newer art.
25/06/2025: Added my own hand-drawn graphics to the site header and homepage! They were a single image for a couple of hours before I split them into the logo text and the artwork. Edited 404 error page to be more in line with the rest of the site.
29/04/2025: Changed site name from ginkgoidea to ginkgobug.
19/03/2025: Changed font in iNaturalist widget to mono fonts.
18/03/2025: Came back to this site after a long hiatus and made a number of adjustments. Removed the about page and merged it with the index page (for now) since they both had basically the same information. Edited the self-introduction on the index page to sound less stuffy. Shrunk the boxes and adjusted the borders. Finally figured out how to make the gallery images display smaller.
01/11/2023: Added an iNaturalist widget that shows 5 recent observations that I've uploaded to iNaturalist.
10/10/2023: Added boxes and updated the summary text on the home page.
22/08/2023: Created a gallery page and added some of my artwork (sorry about the huge image sizes!). Centre-aligned all text on the site. Removed the social media links on the home page since they're now linked in my about page. Added another button to the footer.
20/08/2023: Created an about page and updated the summary text on the home page.
19/08/2023: Added some placeholder links at the top of the page, and attempted to create a footer for the decorative buttons.
13/07/2023: First created a Neocities account and began creating my website based on a HTML draft I'd made some time earlier.
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