Bergen Bock Art

Bergen Bock Art 🎨 Bergen Bock Art — colorful, emotive, and nature-inspired. I work across painting, printmaking, ceramics, and illustration.

Art that’s both whimsical and deeply personal.

Tonight’s moonlight affirmations, for a good nights sleep. What do you do to help quiet your mind before sleep?💤
05/14/2026

Tonight’s moonlight affirmations, for a good nights sleep. What do you do to help quiet your mind before sleep?💤

I don’t talk about this much, but I’ve been struggling with feeling self conscious in my body lately.Between my double m...
05/12/2026

I don’t talk about this much, but I’ve been struggling with feeling self conscious in my body lately.

Between my double mastectomy and perimenopause, I honestly don’t always recognize myself anymore.

It’s strange how grief and hormones and healing can all live in the same body at once.

I think people expect healing to look empowering all the time, but sometimes it just feels vulnerable. Awkward. Lonely.

I’m sharing this because I know I can’t possibly be the only person trying to make peace with a body that’s changed.

Trying to meet myself with more kindness lately, even when it’s hard.

❤️

It’s not ALL mugs, ALL the time. I actually love to make vases and I wouldn’t mind learning how to make lamps eventually...
04/30/2026

It’s not ALL mugs, ALL the time. I actually love to make vases and I wouldn’t mind learning how to make lamps eventually either. I’m a sucker for all things functional.

I want to talk about an experience that I have quite often…something that I always feel confused by…thinking that someon...
04/25/2026

I want to talk about an experience that I have quite often…something that I always feel confused by…thinking that someone is a close friend, or even just a regular friend, while really only being seen as an acquaintance.

1. Different definitions of “friendship”
Many autistic people build connection through:

* shared time
* consistency
* meaningful conversation
* emotional openness

So if those things are present, it feels like friendship.
But neurotypical social structures often rely more on:

* unspoken social tiers
* context (work vs. outside work)
* subtle cues of exclusivity or inclusion

So two people can have the same interactions and walk away with completely different labels for the relationship.

2. Lack of explicit feedback
There’s rarely a moment where someone says:

“Hey, I see you as a coworker, not a friend.”

So the realization doesn’t come gently—it hits all at once, often through:

* being excluded
* not being reciprocated
* a subtle shift in tone or access

Which makes it feel like a sudden drop rather than a gradual understanding.

3. Internalizing the gap as failure
Because there’s no clear “rule” that was broken, the brain tries to reverse-engineer:

* Was I too much?
* Too open? Too quiet? Too eager?
* Did I miss something obvious?

And that uncertainty can spiral into shame, even though nothing concrete actually “went wrong.”

4. The withdrawal response
That mix of confusion + hurt + lack of clarity often leads to:

* pulling back to avoid future misreads
* masking more heavily
* or shutting down emotionally in similar situations

Not because connection isn’t wanted—but because it starts to feel unpredictable and unsafe.

Being autistic can mean experiencing connection differently—and sometimes more deeply, more quickly, or more consistently than the people around you.

It’s not about “misreading” people in a simple way.
It’s about being in a connection that feels real… and finding out it isn’t shared the same way.

That gap can be confusing, lonely, embarrassing.
And it can hurt. So I wanted to talk about it, in case there are other people sharing the same experience and needing to feel seen.

Jumping on this trend, because it’s so cute.
04/19/2026

Jumping on this trend, because it’s so cute.

I’ve been sitting with this for a while.There’s so much of making art that lives on the invisible side—the time, the cos...
04/08/2026

I’ve been sitting with this for a while.

There’s so much of making art that lives on the invisible side—
the time, the cost, the risk, the structure underneath it all.

And the more I think about it, the more I realize how much that structure shapes who gets to keep going.

I don’t say this to divide people, or to make anyone feel like they don’t belong here.
Just to name something that often goes unspoken.

Because I think there’s room to build something more spacious.





I think I’m interested in how much can be heldin something this small.These aceo’s are looking for homes.$35 each — mess...
03/26/2026

I think I’m interested in how much can be held
in something this small.

These aceo’s are looking for homes.
$35 each — message me to claim

Something new is taking shape in the studio.It feels like a natural evolution of my work.Two clay bodies thrown as one f...
03/17/2026

Something new is taking shape in the studio.

It feels like a natural evolution of my work.

Two clay bodies thrown as one form.
A single band of underglaze placed with intention, then carved into the surface.
My carabiner handle cut in two and reassembled into the piece.

The carving is starting to feel like tree rings, wood grain, or a kind of quiet landscape running through the clay.

Still experimenting. Still following the marks.

Curious which one people are drawn to — the blue or the green?

This was my first real commissioned pottery order.I’m not a production potter—I don’t usually work in sets like this—but...
02/08/2026

This was my first real commissioned pottery order.

I’m not a production potter—I don’t usually work in sets like this—but I said yes, slowed down, and made each piece from start to finish.

There’s something really meaningful about being trusted to make work for someone else’s life.

Proud of these. Proud of myself.

Making art in January felt different this year.Heavy. Uncertain. Necessary.Creating isn’t an escape—it’s how I stay pres...
02/02/2026

Making art in January felt different this year.
Heavy. Uncertain. Necessary.

Creating isn’t an escape—it’s how I stay present when the world feels like it’s unraveling and it’s been 100% the only way I’ve been able to keep my sanity.

So, here is some of the things I did in January.

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