...we came in?

♢ Cleo / she/they / lesbian / 26 / I like from here ♢

[ritual-and-chaos]

I am the only grad student in a class of undergraduates, a contemporary art class.

I made reference to an artwork - “oh, it’s like that piece thats three feet of air above a pedastal that contains a curse or a blessing from a witch.”

I sure baffled a bunch of students, right then.

Tom Friedman, “Untitled (A Curse),” 1992

They are required to pack it for shipping with room for the curse.

[depsidase]

[gretchensinister]

*opens a Rothko painting like a door and leaves through it*

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

[arpeggia]

Gundula Blumi - Fata Morgana

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[blooddr3g]

you want a hit off this? *hands you a spider*

[zendeyas]

Naomi Apajok wearing IRIS VAN HERPEN – Haute Couture Fall 2025 Show

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree

[melleonis]

butterflies are beautiful skinny sexless androgynes. moths are cute fat women in furs. bees are sexy but in a girl next door/hardworking soviet laborer type way, while wasps are more like domineering women in suits who will paralyze you with their stingers and then lay eggs in you. none of these elicit even similar kinds of desire or attraction. get it right.

[beesmygod]

[becoming crazed] art should physically harm you

[crabussy]

siphonophores will never not freak me out. stop doing that its SCARY but also please don't ever stop doing that you ethereal marine cryptid

[crabussy]

[crabussy]

the red shape is a person of average height. the green line is one of these freaks. btw

[thefloatingstone]

Ya'll forgot my favourite one

[motherlicker]

There’s a thing where you can look up your primal astrological sign, and mine is a salmon. Which means, essentially, that you are devoted to one thing, and you swim upstream for your whole life. You get shredded, take a beating, reach fruition, and then you die. I'm a salmon.

Jeremy Strong for W Magazine 'Jeremy Strong Just Wants Something to Believe In'

[onetwofeb]

Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality… Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

Wit and Play..for the human element.

The ephemeral and chance…for the human element.

Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

[dogpuppy]

[mortuar-y-deactivated20251202]

looking for an intense relationship on like wednesdays and fridays but then we don't talk much for the rest of the week

[teaboot]

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass

It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE

After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.

Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

[brightlotusmoon]

[theunfairfolk]

in elementary school i figured out how to customize the classroom desktop's autocorrect to make Word change whole sentences. this made it appear almost like the computer was responding to you. you could, for example, type in "where did i put my keys", hit enter, and watch it switch to "you put them under the couch". this was before chatbots, and we were all 9 so i considered it closer to a magic trick than a tech one.

i immediately scripted out a dialogue exchange between me and a girl who had died by the swings (classic). i invited another student over and told them i had found a ghost, then proceeded to type out the pre-scripted exchange. i was immediately pulled into the counselors office. the kicker was that none of the adults could figure out how i did it. i had to show them the menu and everything.