On the packaging.Hidden in the terms and conditions. Who knew it’d be so foretelling, so prescient? “Some assembly required.” Like a chant. Like a mantra. Like the Rosary. A testament to how you’d spend your time and your days. A lifetime with tiny pieces. Trying to fit them in. Trying to figure out where they go...
Yeah, when something catches my interest I can get a tad obsessed... I blame World of Books offering titles at little more than a couple of quid each, free postage and 4 for the price of 3 offers!! How can an addict resist!??! 🤪
Thinking about doing a Black Museum inspired creative project/s but still mulling over ideas ...
Finally got some proper #art of my other-OTHER#fursona
His name is Yahdim Albanda. He is a Gentleman Rogue. A mafioso with a heart of gold who really only seeks to have fun and enjoy life.
And secretly a reinvention of the first fursona I created as a teen, brought back to life for a #DnD campaign, where he is of course, a Swashbuckler Rogue.
Art is by my friend @lynthecookie (who never posts on their fedi account because they are a guava-head, ùwú) (they mostly use Telegram instead)
Anyway very happy with how this cutie turned out, can't wait to play with him again.
This is a stuning piece that resonates with me in ways I can't put into words. Thomas Merton says that “those who cannot be alone cannot find their true being and they are always something less than themselves.” But over time with overuse the kind of withdrawal that makes it possible can become its own kind of lessening.
How imaginative is this picture book ! Art lovers will love this incredible adventure that takes young Puppy at the very heart of the paintings.
Poppy cannot wait to go to the art museum with her fourth-grade class. As she arrives, she is amazed by all the masterpieces, there are so many ! As she comes closer to admire one of them, she falls inside and finds an earring ! Poppy now has a mission : find the owner of the missing jewelry!
"The Most Important Network of Art Institutions that You’ve Never Heard of" by Jason Waite (ArtReview).
"Arts Collaboratory is a network of 25 art spaces, mainly from the Global South, including Raw Material Company, Dakar; Kunci, Yogyakarta; Lugar a dudas, Cali; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; ruangrupa, Jakarta; and Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Mexico City, among others. It started in 2007 as more of a traditional art network like the long-running Triangle Network, begun in 1982 and with partnerships in 40 countries, only with the difference that its initiators, the Dutch NGOs DOEN Foundation and Hivos and the publicly funded Mondriaan Fund, provided financial support for the art institutions while wanting to ease bureaucracy for their grantees, provide a platform for them to exchange knowledge and foster South-South art institutional connections."
Is there anything that makes you invincible? Can you coat yourself in kevlar? Some new invention of polymer chemistry? Ballistic panels and stab protection. Blunt force resistance and polycarbonate shields. You try to be normal. You enter the world in riot gear. Defensive. Fragile. Scared...
Jackie Wullschlager wonderful Monet: The Restless Vision (2023) is the best #arthistory book I've read for a long time. Her account of Monet, his relations with 3 key women (two wives & a step daughter) & how they shaped his work, balances biography with a compelling/insughtful account of the development of his work. Like all good #art books this just makes you want to see his #painting in the flesh. I cannot recommend it highly enough
An interesting article by art histoian Richard Stemp about Hans Holbein.
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It's funny the way poetry sometimes appears, unexpected and unknown. Even when I try write something else, even when I mean to write another way, even my essays, even my prose, turns into a poem.
Robert Doisneau (1912 - 1994) Paris, 1950.
The marvels of daily life are so exciting, no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. #photography#blackandwhitephotography#art
From a bed in a bedroom, to a bathroom, to a mirror, to a kitchen, to a sink, to a stove. Through the vertical rectangles with a handle or a knob, into a garage, into a car. From the squared off edges of a parking lot, yellow and white lined squares within, into a office building. We live in a world of little boxes...
We spend so much of our time trying to use our time more effectively, more orderly. Trying to be more productive. More structured. Trying to streamline all our procesess. But what if the best of what we have to give, the best of what we have to offer, the best of what's inside us, might come out best through inefficiency?
As a species we specialize in calculating with and by what we can observe. Coordinates by which we measure all things. Four cardinal directions on a compass. An angular distance in a spherical system. But "a wealth of possibilities breads dread" Walter Kaufmann says. Couldn't it be condensed or simplified?...
There are two things that direct all my efforts. Two things I give all my time to. Two things I try so hard to be good and I just quite seem to do it. And then there’s Grant Snider who writes and makes art seamlessly.