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Bette Davis & Maggie Smith (+ Angela Lansbury) DEATH ON THE NILE (1978) dir. John Guillermin

portrait of a friend... multi-day goauche pieces kick my ass bc i forget the color mixes

went to yosemite, did some plein air… some kids stopped to watch me paint and gave such good commentary ("can you add pink to it?" and "wait… that's so weird… i'm going to be an artist when i grow up too… did you know that?")

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the three mermays i got around to from historical mermay. minoan, goryeo, assyrian

#mermay #historicalmermay #original

live jazz scribbles

#original #why does nyc get all the cool shit....SIGHH

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the phenomenology enjoyer has logged off

str-ngeloop

i'm interested in the exploration of what it is you're doing here and now with this post if not "capturing faithfully"

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i elided most thoughts, made shitty drawings, failed to connect ideas, etc. and yet was still satisfied by the outcome.

it's less about the pressure to create something good or resonant than the anxiety i feel around approaching something fundamental. before, the fact that i hadnt made this a 50+ page deep dive into my neuroses would have tortured me in and of itself but now i live in idgafistan

#which makes it easier to make fun art that makes little sense (see above)#than Correct Art that feels like getting disemboweled to create

hiking (sexily)

#i booked a trip to yosemite. in the mood...#original

some art can only be described as "my baby cousins asked me to draw this" and I Will Never Deny Them

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will tumblr let me post minoan mermay... time will tell

#mermay #historicalmermay #original

Do you know Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Ich fürchte mich so vor der Menschen Wort" ( "I fear so deeply the words of man") ?

Your blue butterfly phenomenology drawings reminded me of it

i didn't know about this poem! it definitely attends to a similar theme of the imposition of human interpretations or modes of processing on perception.

as a linguist, i tend to care about words and the general communicative capacity of language a lot. it's sobering to remember that language will still never describe or summarize all experiences despite infinite composability. in intro cognitive science courses, a big shock for students is that most (if not all) thought is pre-linguistic, with a few exceptions here or there for explicit rehearsal before producing language. most of your life and perception is not interpreted through language. which is freeing, in a way.

thank you for the recommendation!

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