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Abundant planting. The effect of the herbaceous planting on either side of this straight flight of steps is to give it a meandering line. This is an example of excellent grouping of plants to complement a structural feature.

The Garden Book, 1984

ghostparties

Girl Pictures by Justine Kurland

diogenesprintco

Symmetrical irises from a couple years ago - now in blue!

Followers of this blog will know me as an enjoyer of handmade cotton papers, but this is one of the rare times I had a misprintless experience with a more mid-weight pressed paper.

time-incantation

holespoles

Chōsui Yabu (1814-1867)

"Portrait of a Rabbit"

藪長水「兎」1867年・江戸時代木版アメリカ・シカゴ美術館

oplishin

okay but chess terminology is like. you pinned your opponent's hung knight and now you can mate? oh im sure

oplishin

OH I'M SURE

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

kilncreatures

what the hell

jordandebney

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