Just Clever Or Worse

If you want to look at my feet, say so. but don't be a god-damned sneak about it.

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[libutron]

Butterfly scales 

[creepish]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[circusheart]

cant stop thinking about this this was sooo crazyyyyy

[mybeingthere]

Wally Dion, born 1976, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Fabric Star Quilts.

Wally (Walter) Dion is a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry living and working in Upstate New York. Working in a number of media including painting, drawing and sculpture.

Wally explains:

"The first fabric star quilt was made as part of a 2022 residency at Wanuskewin Park. It was my way of reflecting upon prairie tall grass and the reintroduction of bison into the Great Plaines. I wanted to make several transparent quilts and superimpose them; one in front another... a quilt for the microbiome, another for the bison, their manure & hooves, another for the summer fires that scorch the ground and a final quilt for the sweetgrass braid.

I was considering how all of these things worked together for thousands of years to create what is known as the 'prairie tall grass ecosystem'. A vast and fertile expanse of land stretching from the foothills of Alberta to the banks of the Mississippi. I wanted to highlight the invisibility of systems when everything is working well, as it should be.

I started with the green quilt because it is the colour of the sweet grass braid that is exchanged in ceremony and relationship building. I considered the nature and tradition of quilting; impoverished craftspeople using tiny scraps of fabric. I considered the act of offering fabric and adherence to tradition. I thought of a thousand tiny prayers and how that might look; invisible acts of respect and adherence to protocols spanning decades. My thoughts travelled across the land, imagining the trees and rocks collecting these prayers like a bush of cloth, or an etched boulders."

fabric quilts - Wally Dion

prairie tall grass quilts, Bonavista NL, 2023 bison quilt, 2023. 127 ¼ h x 106 ¼ w. fabric, copper pipe. fire quilt, 2023

[baygentlemen]

here’s a dappled unicorn i’ve drawn that is heavily heavily inspired by another artist however have very sadly lost the credits. please tag the name if anyone knows!

[grimpkin]

im always thinking about this tweet

[starrmarr-deactivated20260106]

[batteredshoes]

This 2,300 years old mosaic reads, "Be cheerful, live/enjoy your life". Collection: Antakya Archaeology Museum, Turkey. Photographer: Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons.⁣

[kafk-a]

T.H. White, in his 1958 retelling of the Arthurian legend in Once and Future King

[exene]

[wintercorrybriea]

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

I have a reason to believe we all will be received in graceland btw

[kafk-a]

oak tree am i right

[jacobtheloofah]

“Wish You Were Here (in this dungeon)”

a zine about a skeleton writing to the adventurer that didn’t kill him

[thetursithan]

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998