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WOLFGANG PAALEN

Cadran lunaire, 1935

oil and tempera on canvas

#Wolfgang Paalen #art things

prawnlegs

wild Mr. Tastee sighting in western Mass??????

#the adventures of pete and pete #liminal things

granstromjulius

Richard Diebenkorn

#art things

cosmonautroger

Helix Nebula

#space things #human things

Thicket, 2026

Meg Webster

#Meg Webster #art things #nature things

nemfrog

Astronomy sampler. The Gate Beautiful. 1903.

Internet Archive

#space things

nemfrog

The parts of a tree. A Book of General Science. 1931.

Internet Archive

#nature things #story ideas

WiP Wednesday (on Saturday)

thanks to @lifemodeldecoy for the tag! wanted to share this for all of those who voted in my WIP poll for Instructions for growing … even though it didn’t win, I haven’t forgotten about it! … two different fragments for you…not fully committed to a specific structure for this one yet, so it’s just disjointed parts and pieces for now.

if anyone happens upon this and has there own WIP to share…please tag me … i’d love to see what you are working on :)

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The fruit is still green. They are not ready yet. She picks one anyway. The thorn catches the tip of her finger. It's sour. Not lemon-sour, not vinegar-sour. Astringent and so sharp her jaw clenches involuntarily. She fills her left palm with them. Streaked with dirt, juice, and a thin line of blood between her index and middle finger. Six, seven, eight— Small and translucent and round and slightly furred. The seeds catch between her teeth. She guides her tongue to try and dislodge them. Something moves across the inside of her wrist. A caterpillar half the length of her thumbnail, longer when it moves. Speckled pale yellow and black, banded along it's side with orange. The front of its body lifts, reaches, finds the next inch of skin, the rest following in a slow contraction. It turns and continues along the edge of her thumb. Stops when it reaches the heel of her hand. The gooseberries grow warm in her palm, the blood dries between her fingers.

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August is not generous. The heat sits unmoving. The garden slows. Sulks. The tomatoes split. Long fissures down the sides, the flesh going soft where the skin can no longer hold itself together. The ethylene that ripened them is what breaks them open. She picks what she can save. Cuts around the damage at the kitchen counter. Leaves the rest. By the second day the wasps have found them. By the fourth, they are flat and dark. She wakes at three with her jaw aching, the back teeth on the right side, the muscle along her temple so tight she can feel her pulse in her ear. She presses against it. One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three— The heat breaks on a Tuesday. Break. Fracture. The word implies something clean. A bone snapping. A plate shattering. But the air does not snap. It thickens, turns yellow, sags until the sky as a whole lowers over the garden and finally it begins to rain.

#supergirl #lena luthor #lena plants a garden but it’s existential as fuck #character study in progress #WIP #The garden now also includes bugs because I listened to too much Haley Heynderickx while writing this

#art things #human things #Kazland

kenjed

Meg Webster's earthworks at The Dia, March 2024

#art things #nature things

The Path to the Moon

W. T. Horton, 1898

#art things #space things #W.T. Horton

Loose End of Light

Anna Savvi 2026

#Anna Savvi #art things #human things

afieldinengland

just overheard a mum in the museum ask her seven-year-old child ‘shall we say bye-bye to the skull?’

#ha #I too say goodbye

“The highest degree of light, such as that of the sun, of phosphorus burning in oxygen, is dazzling and colourless: so the light of the fixed stars is for the most part colourless. This light, however, seen through a medium but very slightly thickened, appears to us yellow. If the density of such a medium be increased, or if its volume become greater, we shall see the light gradually assume a yellow-red hue, which at last deepens to a ruby-colour.”

Goethe's theory of colours, 1840

#color things #story ideas #so much reading of late for this one