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SATURDAY NITE…..STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY!!! Savoy Ballroom Dancers, Harlem NY. 1930s-40s

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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

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PAUL ROBESON’S film debut in BODY AND SOUL (1925) — dir. Oscar Micheaux

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Foxy Brown (2001) Photography by Tony Duran

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Adriaan Hess 1. I Want to Believe (porcelain, silver), 2015 2. Willem van Oranje (porcelain cobalt painted), 2014

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Twin Peaks (1990-1991)

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@pig.malion is exquisite as always

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Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

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North Korea and Cuba serve the same cultural function in the US, people can point to the commonly held notion that these are authoritarian shit holes full of stupid proles who foolishly hate America because they’ve been brainwashed, and feel good that they live in a country as free and democratic as the US instead. It serves as an outlet and scapegoat for all their justifiable fears over state and capital oppression, in the back of their head at every moment the thought of “well the US isn’t THAT bad” serves as a numbing agent, obfuscating the fact that they live in one of if not the most authoritarian country on earth.

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Dress from the Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2018 Pre-collection

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jean-vincent simonet