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[consolecadet]

For the ask game: top five favorite works of art?

Ooh, really hard! Some contenders -- just sticking with 2d visual art so I don't go totally bananas:

House of Stairs, M.C. Escher

(I also really like his "Puddle")

La Folie Almayer, Renee Magritte

Drag, Steven Shearer

Cracked Egg, Irving Penn

and in a similar vein, Milk Drop Coronet, Harold Edgerton

I also love this one by Will Laren but I don't know the title.

I have a print of this Fiat bicycle ad by Plinio Codognato somewhere in my office

I have a soft spot for Pool Party by my friend Sophie Pearson, in part because I love happy fat people and also because I appear in it (bald head in the background)!

Judith I, Gustav Klimt

I also find myself returning to Dance (II), Henri Matisse, despite not even really liking it that much. I painted a copy of it in Intro to Painting in college and it has haunted me since

[librarycards]

🍓 !

Sometimes the thing that happens is that you have an ancient, treasured mutual and then you discover they’re an incredible writer with a rich imagination in addition to being a comfy & comforting dash co-presence. This is how it felt to read Butterfly Stitch, an absolute all-timer which I adore w/ my whole heart. Just like I adore being your eternal mutual.

[clarenecessities]

i couldn’t find a gif without the rotisserie shithead part but i think i’ve gotten my point across

[librarycards]

Have you read Walking Practice by Dolki Min? It's a speculative Korean novella about a shape-shifting alien that eats humans, but also in many ways it's about disability and queer bodies, I've never read anything like it

it's been on my tbr for a while, i'll have to read it soon!!! thank you <3

[librarycards]

For the ask game, what are your top five (or ten, if you like) favorite works of art?

ooh i like this one, i'm definitely going to forget something but here goes

i need to include starry night because i have a vivid memory of being 4 and seeing a print in school and it was like the whole universe opened up for the first time.

jenny holzer's truisms.

louise bourgeois's "what is the shape of this problem?" series

the entire sweetstrange universe of creamthing ( @samsketchbook )

"i can't help myself."

i know there are dozens more that i'm blanking on but !

[librarycards]

What's your favorite music to write to (or if you write in silence, favorite music for chores/running/etc)?

hiiii, i go through phases re: writing with and without music. currently in a "without music" phase, however when I am in a "with music" phase, i listen to themed book playlists i make to Conceptualize to. here are the curated versions of some of mine.

i run to very cringe music, mostly a mix of 00s-10s pop/dance music, sad girl singer-songwriter music, and show tunes/adjacent, all on a secret playlist that has like 900 songs on it. i also use it for workouts/chores, unless i have a podcast or audiobook on!

[lichfucker]

Happy birthday!!! 🎉 🎉

thank you, ollie!! 🫀🥰🫀

[briannyssey]

For the ask game: top five favorite works of art? (I'm asking everyone this lol)

Okay I'm confining this to just visual artistry. In no particular order

Gordon Parks' Family Portrait, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950. I love this piece and this collection (Back to Fort Scott, 1950) so much for Parks returning home and capturing the lives of these people who attended the same segregated school in Southeast Kansas. I find a lot of resonance in my own experiences returning home, seeing the way that forces like poverty, white supremacy, and religious fundamentalism shot people in a million different directions. That's the real rural KS experience. But also, its Gordon Parks bringing his particular eye for the humanity and dignity of the unseen back to the cohort of his home. I think that's really beautiful.

Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace), oil on canvas, 1881. I love the impressionists, and Renoir's my favorite when it comes to vividness and texture. His work has such a beautiful use of color that just awes me everytime. I'd love to see more in person.

John Blanche's The Fall of Gondolin. It's magical, and draws me right into the realm of fantasy. This singular image has had such an impact on my artistic sensibilities. The terrible devastation, the bright hope standing against it for a little while. UGH

Caravagio's Narcissus. Many paintings of Narcissus focus on his beauty, or the brightness of the pond. But Caravagio's Narcissus has such a beautiful use of darkness to render Narcissus' perspective and the way the rest of the world deadens around him as he's able to see himself for the first time.

Diego Velazquez's Los Hilanderas. The focus on the spinners, the cat casually getting in the way, the wildly detailed rendering of common working people in the foreground (just so rare in the time of its painting), while in the background nobles re-enact the theater of Ariadne's transformation with an older Renaissance painting of greek myth rendered diegetically on the wall (specifically I think Titian's The Rape of Europa but i'm not 100% on that being the painting rendered inside the painting). Like to enter into conversation with myth, art, and theater simultaneously while also relegating them out of focus to elevate weavers into a subject worthy of representation and admiration? I just!!! I gotta lay down for a while, holy shit

Thank you so much, this is such a fun ask!