An attentive look

I look around me in a quizzical, knowing, earnest, challenging and penetrating way. This blog contains some explicit material; please, only 18+. NSFW.

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[image description: a tweet by cairo smith that reads, "there's a common misconception that brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime." below are photos of brutalist buildings, edited to be painted with colorful ancient greek-style patterns and scenes. end description.]

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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Sergiu Ciochina (Moldovan/French b.2001) Nights in Amsterdam#2, 2025, Oil on panel

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Anna Lea Merritt

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Water Lilies (1904) by Claude Monet

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Allan O'Marra (Canadian b. 1947), The Bather (La Baigneuse), 2014,. Oil and Acrylic on canvas

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Tom Thomson (Canadian 1877-1917), Campfire, 1916, Oil on wood, National Gallery of Canada

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Hiroo Isono

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Hirō Isono (Japanese 1945-2013), Acrylic on canvas

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Granville Redmond (American 1871-1935), California Poppies and Eucalyptus, 1914, Oil on canvas

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Hélène Béland (Canadian b.1949), Light Catcher, 2012, Oil canvas

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John Michael Carter (American b,1950), Summer Reading, 1986, Oil on linen

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Elena Wuest (Kazakhstan/German b.1977), Lost in a Dream, 2026, Oil on canvas

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The Allee du Champ de Foire at Argenteuil (1874) by Claude Monet

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Mark Grantham (Canadian b.1966), Exquisite Timing (South Park, Halifax), 2024, Acrylic on board

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Choy Moo Kheong (Singaporean b.1950), Blue Whispering Day, 2022, Acrylic on canvas

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Emma Haworth (British b. 1975), Under the Trees, 2016, Oil on canvas