#Tar Beach

[the-cricket-chirps]

Faith Ringgold

Tar Beach

1988

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I was very sad to hear the news of artist and activist Faith Ringgold’s recent passing. Throughout her incredible career she created work in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, and narrative quilts. She also wrote and illustrated several children’s books- including the wonderful Tar Beach, based on one of the quilts, which won several awards.

Pictured above is American People Series #20: Die, 1967, currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

From the museum about the work-

Recalling her motivation for making this work, Ringgold has explained, “I became fascinated with the ability of art to document the time, place, and cultural identity of the artist. How could l, as an African American woman artist, document what was happening around me?” Ringgold’s American People Series confronts race relations in the United States in the 1960s. This mural-sized painting evokes the civil uprisings erupting around the country at the time. On the canvas, blood spatters evenly across an interracial group of men, women, and children, suggesting that no one is free from this struggle.

[greatrunner]

Faith Ringgold, textile artist, author/illustrator of Tar Beach, passed away at the age of 93 yrs.

[chiralcrystallization]

Higgs this....Sam that....

THIS HERE!! THIS IS THE R E A L STAR OF DEATH STRANDING 2!!!!

LOOK AT IT !!!! * ^ *

[imadhatt3r]

I see your "Tomorrow is Lou" theories, and I raise you mine: "Tomorrow is Lou (the original)

[sanctaignorantia]

Beauty in the details! #2

The Chrysalis Girl

The inner child

The tar-cat

The empty nest

+The books with a fucking personalized cup with the KJP logo that I really wanted - aaaah!

[lies]

Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

[beetle-the-boy]

Beached Things

[blackdollenthusiast]

Cassie From Tar Beach

[rat-princess]

I wanna see you almost every night.

I wanna tell you I'll be just fine.

[gurutrends]

c reopens beaches after tar ball mystery

Beaches in the Australian city of Sydney have reopened for swimmers after being closed earlier this week when thousands of mysterious black tar-like balls washed ashore, prompting health concerns. Officials say tests found the balls to be formed from chemicals similar to those in cosmetics and cleaning products but it is still unclear where they came from. Eight beaches including Bondi – the…

[imadhatt3r]

Do you think that the puppet guy has his own cabin on the Magellan, or does he have one of these doll beds from Ikea near some kind of a boiler room and Fragile or the Captain have to come there each night to read him a bedtime story and pull a little blanket over him and give him a kiss on the forehead? 🥺🥺🥺

[todays-xkcd]

I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.

Númenor Margaritaville [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[An Elf and Cueball are walking to the right. The Elf is wearing a dress and a headwear.] Elf: Aragorn was king of Gondor, but we Elves remember when his line ruled Numenor. Cueball: Oh, the place from the Jimmy Buffett songs?

[Closeup on Cueball.] Elf [off-panel]: What.Cueball: The semi-mythical seafaring Atlantic paradise? He sang about it. With the fancy cocktails?

[The Elf and Cueball stand facing each other.] Elf: ... You mean Margaritaville? Cueball: Yeah, that must be the modern name.

[Closeup on Cueball.] Elf [off-panel]: Numenor is not Margaritaville. Cueball: "I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead," sang Tar-Pharazôn, king of island life.

[The Elf, now facepalming, and Cueball stand facing each other.] Elf: Please stop. Cueball: "If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached" is about the shores of Tol Eressëa.

[The Elf is walking away from Cueball, to the left. Cueball raises one arm and finger.] Elf: See, this is why I'm leaving the world of Men. Cueball: You shall diminish, and go into Key West.

[vyragosa]

i literally think fragile is in that red coffin

“Futures are fragile things, but my daughter's made of stronger stuff.”

“ But remember what a coffin's for. Preserving that which was most important to us. The precious, the fleeting. The fragile.”