Fascination by Elle Santos

Behind the walls of thorn and past the fields of thistle, there was a castle where the lonely girl lived. byElleSantos.etsy.com

[dappermouth]

i can understand the trials but were the tribulations really necessary

[byellesantos]

I might have accidentally acquired a rather large stack of vintage Juxtapoz magazines ih ih ih... to reclaim a tiny piece of the collection I once had in Portugal, many lifetimes ago.

#things that make me happy

art edition

[hotvalleydaysandcocainenights]

I feel, as an older dude, I need to spread the word to the young'ns about Robert Williams' JUXTAPOZ magazine.

Shit is turbo dope.

It's a staple of the LA and Chicago underground art life. (I can't speak to NYC, cause I've never lived there for any time.)

Check it out.

[byellesantos]

#things that make me happy

documentary edition

[byellesantos]

#things that make me happy

postcrossing edition

[byellesantos]

#things that make me happy

documentary edition

[byellesantos]

#things that make me happy

postcrossing edition

[byellesantos]

It's official, I'm Australian...

[byellesantos]

Sleeping bride

Brisbane - 09/25

Artist: Arthur Boyd

Year of Creation: 1957-58

Media: Painting

"Sleeping bride 1957–58 is from Arthur Boyd’s major allegorical series, ‘Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-caste’ (or the ‘Brides’), which arose from his travels to central Australia in 1953.

The ‘Brides’ are considered one of the most significant achievements in Australian Modernism, akin to Sidney Nolan’s ‘Kelly’ paintings from the 1940s.

Boyd’s stark multiracial bride and groom representations were painted in the years of the Australian Government’s assimilation policy and the stolen generations, which saw children of mixed race removed from their homes.

In Sleeping bride, the bride is depicted sleeping alone in a dark, blue-tinged landscape, an ambiguous realm of half-light, which suggests the psychological space of the dream. It is one of the gentler, more contemplative works in the series.

The painting is replete with symbolic elements — a green beetle, a ‘ram-ox’ and the recurrent motif of a posy of flowers — variously denoting fear, lust and hope. The sleeping bride is joined by several black birds, a feature in Boyd’s work across his career."

via www.learning.qagoma.qld.gov.au/microsites/australian-collection/arthur-boyd/sleeping-bride/

[byellesantos]

On my way to work

I have to do this…

[byellesantos]

On my way to work

I don't want to do this…

[byellesantos]

Bella casa

Brisbane - 09/25

Artist: Sandra Taylor

Year of Creation: 1978-79

Media: Porcelain

"Sandra Taylor (b. 1942) trained at East Sydney Technical College in 1965-66, and in the early 1970s moved away from making functional wares in the Anglo-Oriental style, towards making painted and modelled narratives of Australian life. These have usually been humorously and critically observant of some aspect of Australian 'norms', and over the years she has made these observations through metaphors as diverse as pigs, savaloys, palm trees, dogs, cattle, houses, swimming pools and pencil pines."

via: https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/156590

[byellesantos]

Time peace 1991

Brisbane - 09/25

Artist: Stephen Baxter

Year of Creation: 1991

Media: Porcelain

“Making artwork for me is a bit like, the thrill of the chase. Just like life, sometimes it works and sometimes it fails. That’s the beauty of it. My failures are quite often my most successful developments in the end. One day I could be focussing on found shiny stainless steel and the next could be beautiful white porcelain and the next, thick buttery impasto paint. 😊.

The underlying research of Stephen’s working methodology is Bricolage. Structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss coined the term in 1962. Baxter explains “The Bricoleur, reconstructs, and reuses found and at hand materials and ideas to produce something new with new meanings and insights.”

via https://bluethumb.com.au/stephen-baxter/bio

[byellesantos]

This little guy keeps me sane and clean ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)

Didn’t expect a self-care app to actually work, but here we are. Finch has been a great companion, especially on those days when everything feels harder than it should. Truly recommend it!

[byellesantos]

On my way to work

I can do this…

[byellesantos]

On my way to work

wish me luck...

[byellesantos]

I need tomorrow to go well. I need it to be the first day of a job where I can simply do what I am meant to do and leave at the end of the day. Where my mind can rest when the workday ends. I became a workaholic trying to fix the abuse and neglect I experienced. I learned very young that working hard brought recognition, and that recognition was the closest thing to love I received regularly. Staying busy also meant there was less time to feel things that felt unsafe to feel. I am trying to step away from that now, gently and on purpose. Since my CPTSD diagnosis and the memories coming back, everything feels harder, like skill regression, like my nervous system is learning a new language. I need tomorrow to go well. Because in a month, I can start looking for a place to rent and finally leave this situation. And that feels like hope, even if it is fragile.