david derr Art No R

Art by David Derr,  his paintings, mixed media, digital works, iphoneography, assemblages, photography, poetry, music and just cool things.

[deathbyhiccups]

[amnhnyc]

You won’t find this pigeon on the streets of New York City. Meet the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)! This colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests. It hangs out in small flocks in the treetops, foraging mainly for fruit. Distinguishing males from females isn’t too difficult: Females lack pink necks and are mostly olive-green in color!

Photo: Yi-Kai Tea, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

[classicalcanvas]

Flying Fox (1886) by Vincent van Gogh

[europeansculpture]

Giuseppe Grandi (1843 - 1894) - Testa di filosofo

[monopole]

[ildubbioelaragione]

[dayum62]

@dayum62

[misterlemonzmen]

MisterLemonzMen.tumblr.com/archive

[rijnsburgtoday]

[grigiabot]

Meguro Tokyo,1962

Kiyoshi Niiyama

[gothredy]

[misterlemonztenth]

05-31-26 | Misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[pookiestheoneliveson]

Noah Buchanan

[david-derr]

Final adjustments, now it feels done.

[pmamtraveller]

16th century iron corset

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mauro Martinez aka Mauro C. Martinez (Mexican-American, based TX, USA) - Swing, 2019, Paintings: Oil

[jabberding0]

[pietkokkewiet]

Wetiko is a Cree word for a concept found across many North American indigenous traditions. In its original context, it describes a being consumed by its own hunger — a cannibalistic entity that devours others to feed itself, never finding satisfaction, always requiring more. Forbes applied this concept to describe the psycho-spiritual pathology at the heart of colonial Western civilisation: a way of being in the world predicated on extraction, accumulation, and the subordination of all relationships to the logic of consumption.

Wetiko does not experience relationship. It experiences resource.

This is not merely a political critique. It is a description of a genuine psycho-spiritual pathology — a way of being that cannot recognise the intrinsic value, consciousness, or right to exist of anything outside itself. The forest becomes timber. The river becomes a resource. The animal becomes protein. The indigenous community becomes a problem to be solved. The human body becomes a unit of labour or, when unwell, a pharmaceutical market.

When wetiko logic turns inward — which it inevitably does, because the self is also ultimately a resource to be optimised and extracted from — it produces exactly what we are witnessing. Bodies depleted by constant productivity demands, running on cortisol and caffeine, disconnected from the rhythms that would restore them. Psyches fractured by the impossible demand to perform wellness whilst embedded in a system designed for depletion. Ecosystems dismantled by the same logic that dismantles communities and inner lives.

The World Economic Forum’s own Global Risks Report has now identified biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as among the greatest threats facing humanity in the coming decade. Half of global GDP — roughly fifty-five trillion US dollars — is estimated to be moderately or heavily dependent on the health of natural systems. Even within the extractive logic it has built, civilisation is beginning to confront the consequences of consuming the very systems that sustain it.

This is wetiko eating itself.

By Marc-John Brown