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“Mr Bibbles”

18x 18 cm

Oil on primed paper

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Eye study

Oil on primed paper

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“Amethyst”

Oil on primed paper

21x29 cm

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pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

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Adrien Henri Tanoux - Jeune femme aux chatons (detail)

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Birders, 2019 (dir. Otilia Portillo Padua)

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sandra cisneros, the house on mango street / tatyana nilovna yablonskaya - morning, 1954 / anatoly levitin- warm day, 1957 / harry sutton palmer - a cottage garden, 20th c. / phoebe bridgers, i know the end / sarah abraham - one fine morning, 2013 / theo gosselin - denver morning 5, 2015 / gaston bachelard, the poetics of space / federico zandomeneghi - in bed, 1878 / laura ingalls wilder /colley wisson- morning light kyneton australia, 21st c. / @gabi_wahl on instagram / lauren jolly roberts - cecile’s garden, 2006 / maya angelou, all god’s children need traveling shoes

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Deepti Naval with various paintings of hers

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Weighing around one kilogram (2.2 pounds) at birth the young Chinese water deer is able to stand after just an hour, and spends most of the first few weeks hiding in vegetation.

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Anatomical studies and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

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IN THIS HOUSE WE celebrate black women sculptors because Dark Academia has a slight Michelangelo fetish and sometimes it’s good to mix things up. 
Left to Right: 
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller & Elizabeth Catlett, Selma Burke & Simone Leigh, Edmonia Lewis & Augusta Savage

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“The body buries itself / joins itself / to the loosened mind, to the black-berries and thistles (…)” — Margaret Atwood