#White bay

[tcr55]

The full moon sets behind a church steeple while the White Bay Cruise Terminal sits idle.

Another serene spring Sydney scene, not so calm in and hour or two.

[faguscarolinensis]

Magnolia virginiana / Sweetbay Magnolia at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[optikes]

Dr Destiny Deacon (1956-2024) Kuku Yalanji and Erub/ Mer   Australian

1-4 details of Blak Bay (2023-4) photographic media, light boxes

exhibited at Biennale of Sydney 2024

5 Me and Virginia's Doll (1995) photograph image: 31.8x25.1cm

6 Come to my Kitchen (2009) photograph image: 80x60cm

7 Baby love (from 'Forced into images' portfolio) (2001) 119x101cm Bubble jet print from polaroid photograph on paper

www.biennaleofsydney.art    

A     www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/destiny-deacon/

Dr. Destiny Deacon was from the KuKu and Erub/Mer peoples of the Torres Strait Islands and lived in Melbourne most of her life. Her multi-disciplinary practice – across photography, film, sculpture, performance and installation – was forged from personal family and community stories that enveloped her urban playground. As well as being an artist, she was also a respected activist, performer, writer and broadcaster. 

Deacon’s intriguing works continually provoke, challenge and reimagine the Aboriginal narrative through the photographic lens. She intuitively engages her audience through an exchange of ideas, stories and approaches to thinking with works that often have a subtle political guise. Using satirical black/blak humour she interrogates and explores the tales, events and imagined lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

B artgallery.nsw.gov.au

...she considers the casual cruelty of everyday racism with a humour particular to her identity. Jokes mostly rely on mocking the weak, yet in Deacon’s twisted currency one cannot be quite sure who is the joker and who the joke is on. Deacon’s anti-art is seemingly slapdash, but is in fact thoroughly cunning. She describes herself as ‘just a crappy artist’, and has said that the ‘worse’ the art – the more unfocused or uneventful – the tougher its impact. ...

C artreview.com

Indigenous Australian multimedia artist Destiny Deacon (of K’ua K’ua/Kuku and Erub/Mer descent) is best known internationally for her photographs that depict friends, family and kitsch artefacts in unsettling and surreal scenarios that describe Indigenous trauma, memory, identity and cruelty via the artist’s characteristic visual language of ‘Blak humour’. Among the photographed objects, her collection of Aboriginalia (which she calls ‘Koori Kitsch’) and black dolls are her most frequent muse: “I feel sorry for those little dolls lying in trash and treasure markets… looking all forlorn and stuff. I don’t know why – I just seem to rescue them,” .... The term was coined by Deacon (and is also often traced to her photographic triptych Blak lik me, 1991) and continues to be used by Indigenous communities in Australia as a means of self-determination. Its specificity lies in the reclamation of the word ‘Black’, understood by Deacon to be a concept imposed on Indigenous people by the continent’s colonisers, where the omission of the letter ‘c’ transforms it into a term that is now used to describe contemporary Aboriginal culture, history, art and shared social experiences, rather than racial categorisation.

[mochipong]

You are my sweetest downfall

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My art for the Timeless: 2024 ranwan calender zine on Twitter

[petersong3]

Baseball time...⚾️🍟

Tiempo de béisbol...⚾🍟

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[hkrieg]

Everyone's favorite (or least favorite) martial god...

[owlmaya]

one more 2ha gotcha prompt – txj/chu feinyan for anon! (@2haaction)

aka txj expering the average cat owner’s struggles on the one (1) day of the month he leaves his bedchambers

[tgirlwithreverb]

Begging some of y'all to realize that rural people are human beings too, not a different species that's inherently evil

[qifreyplushie]

guyyyssss it's sketch dump time ^__^

[cabbage-shack]

I am LIVING for the head cannon going around that Xie Lian has actually lost it centuries ago and his beautiful husband, Hua Cheng the Crimson Rain Sought Flower Ghost King himself, is actually a putrefied abomination/horrific creature of the night and he just doesn't see it.

BUT! Why leave the other calamity ghosts out of this fun filled horror fest??

🤩

[tcr55]

Some mornings are clear and bright, some are filled with colourful clouds, and some are grey.

You do need an array to be able to appreciate the better ones.

Sydney’s Balmain hosts the White Bay Cruise Terminal, even though the season has started, we are blessed by the absence today.

[pakhnokh]

Yuheng elder I love you so much 😭

[totallynotsloughjykk]

junmei is so funny from xie lian's perspective. imagine your former mentor that dipped 800 years ago finally showing up to court for a proper custody battle, proceeding to expose your #1 lifelong idol to be the insane lunatic that fucked up your life back when you were a teenager and then finding out said insane lunatic that fucked up your life also fucked said mentor 2000 years ago creating the three realms's most toxic doomed yaoi

[itzitxou]

Evil was defeated

[t-taxiansgf]

official art from 墙头儿儿 for bookuu

[eileenwdj]

四大害 | Four Great Calamities