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this blog is for my personal research and to put people on because it can also be read as an informal newspaper of the highlights on here and other sites online

Black people can take any post—that are not my personal artwork—without credit, i do not care

nonblack people must credit if they take any posts from this blog or they will be cursed 😇

“genuinely wish we got rid of the term snowbunny. The idea that white women can be as violent as they are & get compared to BUNNIES is how I know yall are cognitively dominated. It shouldn’t even sit right with you. White women quite literally subordinate you every day in some way. Snow PREDATORS would be more apt”

putting this out in the universe to say you heard it here “first,” even if gets co-opted: most “fine art” under say 50 right now is either rehashed white early post-internet art (that never shouldve happened in the first place), which basically boils down to neo Cybersigilism, then there are painters catching onto the fiber art resurgence in the market by going full fiber art, but most of them still want to make “paintings”, so they are really actually doing neo Pattern and Decoration without knowing the movement well.

Then there’s the neo Pictures Generation work all over from artists who do not know much art history or theory, so they dont know they are making something Raymond Saunders or Robert Rauschenberg did in their sleep. There is the ever present AbEx redux, 60s abstract redux, and kiki figuration (thin, usually nonfat figures which adhere to fascist Greco-Roman proportions)…

Or there is what I call “kitchen sink assemblage”where it looks like artists are throwing everything but the kitchen sink into an assemblage work and hoping relationship aesthetic sticks and does all the heavy lifting for creating a bad Thornton Dial or a bad El Anatsui, or adeptly put: art that a Black person would need to have a MFA or PhD to be taken seriously in the art world; the works’ core thesis is creating work they know Black artists could NOT make and get support from the market, community or institutions unless some nonprofit or something is doing the work to support Black art (or there a lot of tapdancing off the court and that aint right smdh)

art is stagnant rn because the “cool kids” in art dont mask and usually into “law and order”

#theory

last day of me calling out anything publicly unless it is in print or it directly affects me, like housing or crowdf*nding. not a single nonblack person in the arts has posted about the lynching of multiple Black children in 2026, which tells you everything you need to know. antiBlackness is NOT a dealbreaker for over 90% of the art world. and also, quick reminder: if you have the means, and you are not wearing an n95 or better to protect yourself and the most marginalized in your communities, then your sociopolitical takes are hollow and phony virtue signaling or ally theatre and your artwork and your friend group is not “progressive” or “community oriented.”

#theory

Indrikis Gelzis; Wave Into Knot, 2026, 240cm x 80cm x 105cm, Stainless steel, paint

Tian Jianxin, Second Skin, 2025, aluminium pan, copper mesh, 61 x 41 x 10 cm, 24 x 16 x 4 in. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy of the Artist and Capsule

Miles Davis, 1976, ph. Tadayuki Naitoh

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