The Upstairs Room.

“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.” Francois Rabelais

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Joe Brainard, Pansies, 1968. 

Watercolor and collage on paper, 28 x 22 inches.

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Frank Stella

Coxuria, State I, from the Imaginary Places II, Series (1997)

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萩原 卓哉／Hagihara Takuya

Archive

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[jackhillside]

The Other Side

My designs are available on my etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/JackHillside)

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via weheartit

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“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick adapted into the 1982 film Blade Runner, dir. Ridley Scott

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Lines, Tim Maxwell

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KEITH HARING

1958-1990

UNTITLED, APRIL 13 1984   

acrylic on muslin 152.7 x 152 cm. | 60⅛ x 59⅞ in.

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Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924)

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Elaine De Kooning, Southwest Landscape #5, 1960.

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Afrofuturism. The definition is slippery—it’s basically sci fi and fantasy with obvious African elements. It’s BLACK PANTHER, but also Sun Ra, Basquiat. It’s not blaxploitation though.

From Max Dery’s 1993 article: “African-Americans, in a very real sense, are the descendants of alien abductees: they inhabit a sci-fi nightmare in which unseen but no less impassable force fields of intolerance frustrate their movements; official histories undo what has been done; and technology is too often brought to bear on black bodies (brandings, forced sterilization, the Tuskegee experiment, and tasers come readily to mind).”

(I usually don’t feature photos that show fur products, for obvious reasons, making one tiny exception here though (image 4, by Swiss photographer, Patrizio Di Renzo).)

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