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Kiana Khansmith
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Jules of Nature

Kaledo Art

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KIROKAZE
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Sade Olutola
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Misplaced Lens Cap
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YOU ARE THE REASON

Janaina Medeiros

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experiments in digital watercolor~
am i the only person not affected by generalized positivity… like post it notes in bathrooms that say ‘you’re beautiful’ or posts that are like ‘smile! you are a beautiful sunshine flower!’ i’m just like … okay…
I just heard a psychologist (Guy Winch) say that the people that positive affirmations help most are actually the people who have high or at least normal self-esteem. They really do cheer those people up!
But for the rest of us they run so counter to our general worldview (we’re fundamentally bad and deserve nothing) that our brain rejects them immediately as lies and uses that moment to remind us of how terrible and abnormal we actually are.
What usually works for people with low self-esteem is stuff like writing out a list of very specific things we know we’re good at, and revisiting it every day to write a paragraph elaborating on one of those things (i.e. “I’m a compassionate person and here are five examples”) to try to set our brain on a different track long term.
Shiryaevo, ~20 min
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by Dmitry Medyantsev
lovisa lager by jasmine & styled by darlaf
also, Marc Auge’s writing, when he popularized the term non-places (the eerie “placelessness” of standardized environments, increasingly ubiqituous since early- and mid-20th-century and what he refers to as post-war “supermodernity”; the way transit centers, airports, supermarkets, hotels, highways, rest stops seem oddly placeless and creepy and disturbing, with no real connection to local landscape or culture; how uncanny corporate landscapes are sterile, appearing similar in locations on every continent …). his writing kinda evokes de Certeau’s slightly earlier stuff (how the advent of urbanization and the geography of urban areas, following Victorian mass industrialization, created cold/sterile landscapes easily controlled by mediating forces of bureaucracy and disconnected from regional ecology/myths/stories/character.) … well Auge’s writing on non-places wasn’t just like an idle observation, like “oh neat, these spaces are really weird, like a void, a sort of regional Gothic strangely replicated across the world, the way that signs and ATMs and the cashier-customer relationship are all impersonal mediated formal transactions, corporate places are interesting, hmm.” it wasn’t just an observation about “spookiness.” because he was also, i think, really talking about Euro-American power. and something that i agree with, if i could re-phrase it: that the uncanny, impersonal, cold, mediated-by-transaction aspects of non-places were deliberately created and enforced by modernity/supermodernity, on purpose, and more specifically created by Euro-American imperialism/hegemony. done partially as a way to eliminate difference and variation (consolidate cultural hegemony; a fast-food place looks the same and serves the same food at locations in both the subtropical savanna of Miami and the temperate rainforest of the Seattle area, on opposite corners of a continent; a department store chain or hotel lobby architecture might look identical in Sao Paulo, Bangkok, and Fukuoka). those non-place environments work to displace you from the local landscape, to sever your connection to a regional identity, and importantly, the bureaucratic mediation instead incorporates people into a wider Financial/Carceral World. and these standardized transit and “customer” environments were also designed partially as a way to control people by enforcing relatively new-ish concepts like citizenship and hard national borders (which historically weren’t strictly observed/enforced, at least for wealthy or Euro-American people who might travel relatively freely from Late Victorian London to Prague, Istanbul, Cairo, and back with a railroad pass. or even for less well-off people, who might travel between districts in India by road, or book a room in a Central American hostel with a cash payment and signature in a ledger). other controlling aspects: credit scores, licensing, ID cards, new credentials and documents which were “required” in a way that prevents you from moving without participating in the system (must have driver’s license and pay the toll to use highway; must have passport to use the airport; must have a credit card to use the supermarket or book a hotel room; you can’t cross borders or can’t access some services/facilities if you have a criminal record, a record that can now be electronically monitored and easily verified by authorities, etc. all being enforced with the advent of computers and cameras which can follow you, track you throughout life). this is the power of destroying and/or controlling peoples’ relationship with landscape, the power to determine the conditions under which people will be allowed to form a relationship with land and others. and so then geographic space, all geographic space on the planet, will become inaccessible to you if you break the law, are designated as Other, are too poor, are too “deviant.”
by Lucy Campbell
Mask
Peter Wayne Gong
From the website: THE ART OF CARVING
A trip to the workshop of Peter Wayne Gong, Coast Salish artist and carver is an experience in itself, with the smell of sweet cedar welcoming you, along with an opportunity to speak to the craftsman and see first-hand his love of the work he creates, embodying his connection to his nation, the land and long oral history shared through the generations.
Growing up in Whonnock, just west of Mission and spending much of his childhood on the Fraser River, his ties to nature are apparent with eagle, beaver, salmon and otter just some of the depictions on display in the form of carved masks, painted bent boxes, rattles, combs and plaques. Offering a variety and depth of design that easily compares to the high-end product sold in Vancouver, and sought by both locals and international visitors.
First learning the basics of carving and tool making as a teen, Peter went on to a life in the lumber mills, became a father and set aside any carving aspirations until the mill closed in 2009. Then able to look for a new direction, the idea of developing and honing the basic skills he had learnt from his Uncle took on a renewed interest; so with three carving knives, Peter went back to school to learn design, carving, framing and painting; spending two years understanding Formline art, traditionally used by indigenous artists.
He credits much of his success to his two Mission mentors Tom Pattison and Sean Hinton, along with a strong desire to improve with each piece crafted. Plus, having the opportunity to work in partnership with other carvers on large scale projects including a house post gifted by the City of Mission to Oyama in Japan and helping to carve the two welcome figures for BC Hydro for the 2010 Winter Olympics are two of his proudest accomplishments.
Now able to share his skills with the Mission youth, Peter has not only created much of the art work found in Mission’s school entrance ways, but also volunteers his time in the classroom, teaching indigenous art techniques and having the opportunity to share some of the stories and legends he heard as a child.
Visit Peter at his workshop for a unique encounter and get to know the person behind the art at 7265 Wardrop Street, Mission, B.C.
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Hi all! About a year ago, my girlfriend Jinx was kicked out of their house by their abusive mother. My husband and I provided a place for them to crash land when their original backup plan fell through, but we were already homeless to begin with, and the issue that caused their backup plan to fail is now keeping all of us trapped in this situation. Long story short, they're about $3,500 in debt with an apartment complex because of an ex, and no one will rent to us as a result.
This debt is the last thing standing between us and stable housing. We'll be able to sign a lease and get into an apartment together pretty much the moment this debt is paid. If this cry for help gets an answer, I might not ever have to make another one again. Please help us.
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$960/$4,000
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I guess 2day is weird rushed portrait day. My eyes hurt.
Free to use glitched trans two-spirit pride flag!
moccasinmama | Ojibwe
i’m curious which river is “the river” for you guys? for me it’s the rhine
Abandoned dam tunnel in the woods outside Pittsfield, Massachusetts, u/JamesTheConqueror, 2020
girls…this loneliness is getting really hard to romanticize