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free-my-mindd

mothsfuzz

water makes everything calmer

huariqueje

Cherries - Alena Savchenko ‘Lukian’ , 2023.

Serbian , b. 1972 -

Pastel on paper , 30 x 20 cm.

weepingwidar

Dianna Settles (Vietnamese-American, 1989) - Hard, ungrateful, hostile and holy. Carving rock with wind. (2024)

huariqueje

Loon Gathering - Mia Bergeron , 2026.

American , b. 1979 -

Coloured acrylic on flat panel , 6 x 6 in.

mads-schubert

Part 9 in my weekly poster series for 2026

noctambulodelarte

No tienes idea de cuánto deseaba que fueras tú; de que fuéramos, tú y yo siendo infinitos, raros y brillantes como estrellas gemelas que resuenan.

—Noctámbulo Del Arte.

philosophybits

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1822–1863)

redlipstickresurrected

Kyle Dunn (American, b. 1990, Livonia, MI, USA, based Queens, NY, USA) - Eight-Petalled Rose, 2024, Paintings: Acrylic on Wood Panel

salmon-n-hazel

Dwarf jewel nasturtium

Seems legit

we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

headspace-hotel

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

peat-moss-and-starlight

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.