📝 How to Submit Art, Quotes, or Drawings

Want to contribute something that could become part of future pieces?
Submit through our Contribution Form — photos, poems, quotes, scraps of memory, whatever you like.

If we use your submission in a future piece:

• You’ll be notified if you left contact info

• You’ll be given first opportunity to purchase the related artwork at a discount, just for contributors via email.

• You choose how you're credited — with your real name, a nickname, or anonymously. Just let us know what feels right. If you'd rather not be named, we’ll keep your submission unmarked or attributed to "Unknown Contributor."

Submissions may be reinterpreted or transformed to fit the aesthetic or narrative needs of the project. Think collage, not contract.

We may receive similar submissions from different people. If multiple ideas converge, we’ll do our best to credit all relevant contributors when possible.

Please only submit creations that are yours to share.
🌥️ Cloudy sky snapshots, 📞 haunted phone booth sightings, 🍞 toast with faces in it, ✍️ napkin poems, or ✨ weird things overheard in diners — all encouraged.
Just make sure the story is yours to tell.

By submitting, you’re saying, “It’s cool if you use this in your art.”
You still own what you made — we just get permission to share it, remix it, and build stories from it, without owing royalties.
It’s about trust, creativity, and making something beautiful together.

❌ What We Don’t Do

• ❌ Charge for participation

  ❌ Sell your data

  ❌ Require signups or mailing lists to play

• ❌ We don’t mass-produce original one-of-a-kind found-object art — but we may create prints, zines, or small-run items inspired by the work (like glyph stickers, quote cards, or scavenger clues). These are always done with care and story in mind.

⚖️ Contributor Consent

By submitting a quote, photo, story, or creative fragment, you’re saying:
“It’s okay if this is transformed into future artwork, stories, or zines—just give it care.”

You still own your original creation.
We just ask permission to remix it into something collaborative and meaningful.
We may display, print, or share it as part of the Art from the Ashcan project—but we’ll never sell it separately, exploit your trust, or mass-produce your ideas.

If you leave contact info, we’ll reach out if your submission is used.
You can always ask to remain anonymous, or request removal.

This project is built on trust, imagination, and shared wonder.
Thank you for being part of it.

⚖️ Rights & Use

• Submissions: We reserve the right to adapt or use your contribution within AFTAC art, stories, or media

• You retain moral credit and can request anonymity

• We will never sell your submission outside of the project’s creative scope

🧠🤖 On Human–AI Collaboration

This project is built on co-creation. The stories were written through custom multimodal apps we designed specifically for this work—tools that weave image, language, memory, and mood into layered narratives. While every figure and scene is handmade from salvaged materials, some backgrounds and clipboard elements include AI-generated imagery, chosen with care. Here, AI isn’t just a prompt engine—it’s a collaborator, a strange mirror, a voice in the echo. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s resonance.