a thousand miles of light

a strange stream of light struck fast across the horizon, infecting their eyes and broadening rapidly until it absorbed the water and the fields and nothing visible remained.

[seblester]

Working title for my next font is Minge. Would you buy Minge?

[books0977]

Dr. Gernot Blum (1986) bookplate. Artist: Vaclav Rykr.

Woman reads a fairy tale while riding on a fabled animal.

[ultrajumpinthings]

[1000milesoflight]

just the GREATEST TJHING EVER MADE

[sovietpostcards]

Valentin Kurdov. Illustrations for Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1934).

[slavicafire]

Vintage Polish postcards with artwork by Stanisław Eljasz-Radzikowski. circa 1910. 

[ink-the-artist]

The angel came to me in a fever hallucination, perched upon my bed as I returned from the bathroom.

[oilpalette]

The Inheritance, 2026 by Kelvin Jumanne (Tanzanian, b. 1999); Charcoal, graphite and oil pastel on coventry paper, 40x55 in

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[copperbadge]

THE ORANGES

[teashoesandhair]

Time for my biannual freakout about Two Crabs

[raidzero]

[diaryofandnwoman]

[irenthel]

Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum) 2022 Pigment and acrylic on deer hide, 36 x 55 in. (91.4 x 139.7 cm) Nicholas Galanin Born 1979, Tlingit/Unangax̂

"Galanin’s work engages themes of persistence, power, and survival in the face of settler colonialism and its legacies of institutional racism and collective amnesia. Here, the floor plan of the British Museum is painted over a blue field. Pictograms of baskets, masks, woven hats, weapons, tools, and textiles reference the contested objects held in the museum’s collection, while a red line maps an escape route for these examples of Indigenous cultural production. In many Native cultures, hide paintings relay histories across generations and objects embody lineages; in referencing both, Galanin is proposing a getaway plan for his ancestors."

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

[leiyahime]

"Indigo dyeing silk thread"

In case anyone wonders what the Japanese is saying

[torkmatic]

I just learned about this recently from a Viking reenactor! Indigo dye isn't blue until it oxidizes, so when you dye with indigo your cloth or thread doesn't come out of the water blue, it comes out and then reacts with the oxygen in the air and seems to spontaneously turn blue in front of your eyes. It's a really cool process to witness.

[antcomrade]

“Leave the Leaves” editorial illustration I neglected to post

[alaflora]

50x100cm oil on canvas 2016

[mmcoconut]

Paul McCartney from Yellow Submarine!!

like always... done at Zeet studio

[s-k-y-w-a-l-k-e-r]

And honestly, same. 

[credit to @warpbud]

[taxi-davis]

by Saul Steinberg for The New Yorker, June 30, 1962

[nemfrog]

Koi. Japan, Home of the Sun. 1963. Kikuko Mori, illustrator.

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