bright with shipwrecked stars

anna reading: the blue machine

[jetix]

Cyanotype printed shells barfootk_art on ig

[valarinde]

“It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripen and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.”

THE KNIGHT OF THE CART, Le Morte d’Arthur

[huariqueje]

Upside Down . Pompon (Detail) - Olivier Neuray , 2025.

Belgian , b. 1962 -

Oil on panel

[306saint]

trash tarot deck (22/78)

[nobrashfestivity]

Mori Yoshitoshi, Year end Market (暮の市),1957

[calleido]

trotternish ridge, isle of skye, scotland

[zegalba]

Rachel Rector: 'Teabag Cyanotypes' (2021)

[brokenimageswherethesunbeats]

A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumptions requires the unlimited production and consumption of images. - Susan Sontag, On Photography

[huariqueje]

Happy Place - Line Holtegaard , 2024.

Danish , b, 1980 -

Oil and acrylic on canvas , 60 x 70 cm.

[howsublime]

2026 Harriet Powers / quilt stamps: “a tribute to the renowned quiltmaker and folk artist (1837-1910) who learned to sew while enslaved on a Georgia plantation.”

(Image Source: USPS)

[04k96]

[jinxproof]

© ko-ta-shouji

[weepingwidar]

Hamid Yaraghchi (Iranian, 1984) - Those Who Watched Time Unfold (2025)

[phasmidd]

The northern wheatear is a reminder that all migration is not strictly north and south, and, because it is a newcomer to North America, that animals are experimenters, pushing at the bounds of their familiar areas in response to changes in their environment. Nothing is ever quite fixed for them. One afternoon a man in Nome remarked that the bowhead migration through Bering Strait was "late this year". It was not really "late" of course, but only part of an arrangement that differs slightly from year to year. They are not on our schedules. Their appointments are not solely with us.

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

[phasmidd]

three soup week <3

chicken miso noodle with pak choi, ribollita with handmade croutons, and leek and potato (burnt the croutons)

[nobrashfestivity]

Maurice Prendergast The Ocean Palace, 1895 monotype 19 x 15.9 cm

[ukpuru]

Textile patterns from the Igbo women’s weaving industry at Akwete, now in southern Abia State. National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.