[random-brushstrokes]

Betye Saar - Mystic Window for Leo (1969)

[gliklofhameln]

Rosh Hashanah greeting card from Zakko, Iraqi Kurdistan, 19th century.

[pneumaturgo]

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Tarot, Major Arcana.

[unouroborize]

“Threadsuns / above the grayblack wastes. / A tree- / high thought / grasps the light-tone: there are / still songs to sing beyond / mankind.”

— Paul Celan, Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry (trans. Pierre Joris)

[unbecoming-kiley]

Mark Rothko, “Untitled”, 1969

[traindreams]

the urge to be a hater is so strong. but each time the tide of hatred surges it also withdraws, leaving behind a quiet clean and moonlit shore called this is actually not my problem… how beautiful.

[brazilwonders]

[redclaysoil]

kakishibu (persimmon) dyed cotton fabric with paste resist pattern of chinese character '囍' (happy) for patchwork mending. kakishibu is created by fermenting unripe persimmons and repeatedly dipping the cloth in the juice. it contains strong tannins, darkens upon contact with sunlight, and makes fabric water-resistant / source

[biladal-sham]

YEMEN. 2010.  Lorenzo Meloni

[centuriespast]

The Vogelherd horse – the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany.

[neshamama]

louis fratino, “fratinos,” 2019, terracotta and magnesium oxide wash

gislebertus, “dream of the magi,” c.1120-1135, relief carving of the cathedral of st lazare

[riinasawayama]

fernanda alvarez in hand painted photograph by eloïse labarbe-lafon

[museum-archives]

Luck

Kiff Slemmons (American, born in 1944)

1994

Object Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Silver, ebony, dice, mirror, typewriter keys

[weepingwidar]

Naudline Pierre (Haitian-American, 1989) - For I Will Strike and I Will Soothe (2022)

[dyke-delphinium]

Sketches by Gustav Gaudernack, 1910

[replanting]

Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard

[parkayquarts]

SF Muni fast passes, 1976-1979