[ancientknitter]

Hanging (USA, 1950s) by Julia Fybel (1890-1969). Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Large knitted hanging, 14 pieces sewn together, white figures on royal blue ground. Border on all 4 sides (3 ½”) scrolling floral vine. Field consists of 5 bands (11 ½” high) of scenes alternating with narrow bands (3 ½” high) of vines. Bottom scene: two crowned facing mermaids with flower at right, and a fish. Scene above: boy and girl adorsed with basket of apples and cat between them, surrounded by leaves. Middle scene: boy and girl facing each other with lamb and bird between them. Flowers and fruit trees surround them. Next scene: girl asleep, boy holding apple, basket of apples between them, birds flowers, and apples surround them. Top scene: two smiling facing mermaids, fish and flowers.

[nobrashfestivity]

Ikeda Masuo from My Own America 1974

[modelsof-color]

Aariana Philip at Collina Strada Fall 2026

[capacity2]

I don’t think most people are good or most people are evil but evil is very very easy it takes nothing it feels safe it feels empowering and many lean into it often because Most people are weak and pathetic and scared and they do whatever they can to run away from that. They just reach for what’s closest

[postdoe]

Who's Mommy's disgusting little Christmas Grub, suitable only to vacuum peppermint dust off the floor with your mandibles? #xmasification #christmasgrub #mommydom

[weepingwidar]

Taylor Schultek (American, 1990) - Aberration (2025)

[cryptiq]

medication withdrawal so bad I’m thinking about quitting my job HOWEVER grateful that I will eventually get my meds back again even if I have to wait, it is not immediately endangering my health, and that I can get high & eat ice cream as soon as I get home 🙏

[twixnmix]

Asha Puthli photographed by Mick Rock for her self-titled debut album, 1973.

[nobrashfestivity]

Okamoto Kiichi Children Washing The Great Buddha illustration for a children's magazine 1920s

[nevver]

Dig my grave deep, National Museum of Scotland

[cryptiq]

why talk to both of your parents at once when you could just smash your head on a rock over and over and over and over again for the same experience

[cryptiq]

if anyone who sees this has any resources for supporting someone with bipolar, I would really appreciate you sending them to me. for self-advocacy group or org recommendations something in MA or RI would be best, but literally anything is helpful.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I joined this off the beaten path dollhouse group to get help making a spoopy dollhouse and it’s just making me feel worse. Look at the details in these 2 rooms.

via haunted halloween, off the beaten path dollhouses

[cryptiq]

every birthday that passes is just an exercise in escalating emotional torture

[mathhombre]

Langston Hughes, The First Book of Rhythm, Illustration by Robin King, Franklin Watts, New York, NY, 1954, pp. 6-7

Had to collect more of these in one place. First seen at @garadinervi. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974919-the-first-book-of-rhythms

[consolecadet]

Swollen, 2024, 13 x 17”

Acrylic, mixed media art waste (including watercolor, spray paint, paper, resin, and lightbulbs) on canvas

Made in collaboration with @cryptiq

“Swollen” expresses our experience with pain caused by chronic inflammation, marrying Ray's waste-based art practice with K.C.'s portraiture to create something swollen and suffocating. The subject is exhausted, resigned to their pain, letting the bits and pieces of agitation close over them.

My husband K.C. and I collaborated on this piece for ArtsWorcester's 2025 juried show Fusion. He painted the portrait at the center, and I added the "frame" of red-painted trash to go around it.

This piece was a lot of fun to make. Despite both being lifelong artists and writers, knowing each other for 18 years and being in a relationship for 12 of those, K.C. and I have not collaborated too many times...but I'd love to do more now!

If you're in the Worcester MA area, this piece will be on display at ArtsWorcester from January 16 to February 16, with an 7pm opening on Friday, January 17!

[specialmouse-deactivated2025060]

Silverfish are so brave for going down the bathtub drain. I would be scared as fuck in there. I suppose when you have as many legs as they do things like that aren’t as frightening. #Perspective.