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Oh it was in my head

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Something kind of hilarious to me about how if me and N don’t see each other for like 36 hours one of us will send some awkward text like …how’s it going

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Moving..bare walls…just Karen above my bed

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bracelets by jen wojtowicz

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Feeling impatient overwhelmed ….and hungry

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This obituary

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Chaka Khan, 1975.

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Darlene, Danville, Virginia, 1974 © Emmet Gowin

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Baby nail clipper

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La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 

Enduring Ornament, 1913

Enduring Ornament is a  Dadaist steel sculpturecreated by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in 1913. It lives in a private collection. The image is used according to  educational fair use, and tagged readymade and sculpture. See Enduring Ornament in the Kaleidoscope

The year is 1913 and Elsa Endell, kaleidoscopic performance artist and poet is on her way to New York’s city hall for her third marriage, this time to a German Baron named Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven. En route, Elsa spots a rusted iron ring. To Elsa this street trash was a totem of her marriage to be, and in an act marking a new era in the definition of art—Elsa called this found object an artwork.

To state that artwork didn't need to be created with your hands, but that found objects could be claimed as art through the force of the artist’s intent was a shockingly radical concept. And as so often happens with new ideas, the newly minted Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was not credited with the shattering of artistic tradition. A year later, Elsa’s close friend Marcel Duchamp showcased Bottle Rack, a found object he claimed as a new category of art, the ‘readymade.'

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