Gas Station Sushi started with something I never thought I'd share.

Art has always been my way of making sense of the world. It's how I process, quiet my mind, and hold onto things that are difficult to vocalize. I don't usually start with a plan. I don't aim for good art. I just make things and see what happens.

For a long time, I kept my art for myself, my walls, and my friends' arms.

When people encouraged me to share it, I felt uncomfortable. My art is personal. Every piece carries a little bit of my self-expression, and putting it out into the world can feel like handing your journal to strangers.

Eventually, I realized waiting until I felt completely ready might mean waiting forever.

So instead of aiming for perfection (cringe is dead, trying is cool!), I started Gas Station Sushi the same way I start every piece:

I just began.

Gas Station Sushi is a place for my art to exist outside my sketchbooks, through limited collections of hoodies, t-shirts, prints, paintings, and whatever else feels right.

But I also wanted it to be about more than just me.

Art, But Make It Useful

I've always believed creativity can be a form of release. A way to process something without having to explain it.

I've also always felt that if I'm going to build something of my own, I'd like it to do a little good beyond making things I like.

So 30% of profits from the Gas Station Sushi shop are donated to a rotating selection of charities that mean something to me.

The causes will change over time because there are too many important people, communities, and organizations to choose just one.

You can find out who we're supporting and why over in Our Causes, where I'll share the charity we're currently backing.

This is a small operation, built alongside the rest of my life, so I'm not pretending we're going to save the world overnight.

But I do think small things count.

And I'd rather try to contribute, however small it may be.

Then Came Bad Art Club

At some point, I started wondering what would happen if the philosophy behind Gas Station Sushi wasn't just something I put on a hoodie or print.

What if we actually did it together?

And so Bad Art Club Prague happened.

Every Sunday at 11am, we meet somewhere in the city's parks to reflect, make things, and generally give ourselves permission to be bad at something.

No pressure. No judgment.

Bad Art Club is built around intuitive art, creating without stopping to edit, judge, or second-guess yourself. We use prompts as a starting point, but there's no right way to follow them. You can make something beautiful, something ugly, something confusing, or something that looks like it was made by an unwell five-year-old.

It doesn't matter how it turns out. That's kind of the point.

It's part ritual, part community, part intuitive self-expression, and part excuse to spend Sunday morning outside creating.

• You don't need to be an artist.
• You don't even need to think you're creative.
• You just need to show up and make something.

And, honestly, Bad Art Club is also part of me figuring out how to make a living from the things I actually care about.

The shop helps support causes I care about.

The Club helps support me.

Both help keep this weird little thing going.

So What Is Gas Station Sushi?

• It's art you can wear.
• It's paintings that probably should have stayed in the sketchbook but didn't.
• It's Sunday mornings in Prague making terrible art with strangers who become friends.
• It's trying things before they're perfect.
• It's supporting independent creativity.
• It's giving money to organizations doing good work.
• It's making a mess and calling it a process.

Mostly, it's a reminder that you don't have to be good at something for it to be worth doing.

You just have to start.

Thanks for being here, whether you're buying a print, wearing a hoodie, coming to Bad Art Club, making something terrible in a Prague park, or simply following along.

You're helping turn something deeply personal into something that can be shared.

And hopefully, something that can do a little good along the way.

I think that's pretty cool.

— Alexandra
Founder, Gas Station Sushi