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helmuddolls

aarchval

Helen Chadwick, No. 3: Liver (from the series Meat Abstract), 1989.

zynvaites

miamaimania

“Mebae, Rinne Tensei [Germination, Soul Transmigration]” (1990) ❋ Yayoi Kusama — acrylic on canvas

the--framed--maelstrom

Properly written texts are like spiders’ webs: tight, concentric, transparent, well-spun and firm. They draw into themselves all the creatures of the air. Metaphors flitting hastily through them become their nourishing prey. Subject matter comes winging towards them. The soundness of a conception can be judged by whether it causes one quotation to summon another. Where thought has opened up one cell of reality, it should, without violence by the subject, penetrate the next. It proves its relation to the object as soon as other objects crystallize around it. In the light that it casts on its chosen substance, others begin to glow.

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia

maureen2musings

Mountain hare, Vauldalen, Norway

haarbergphoto

dearparentheses

Tokuhiro Kawai

barnsburntdownnow

Tara (stage 1) 2022; Foundry Foundation Nepal Charcoal on paper

To sketch the figures in a thangka, the painter must know the proportions and measurements of each deity. These established guiding principles are called iconometry and maintained by artistic practice. The measurements are units that have no absolute values but are proportional in relation to each other--twelve small units to every large unit

#sketches/layouts/works with notes and construction lines intact are always so much more beautiful than a fully rendered work i think #this is so lovely