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For Hew Locke’s exhibition, Listening to the Land, at P.P.O.W. he has created intricate sculptures and paintings that are fascinating in person.
From the press release-
Locke is known for exploring the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different cultures assume and assert identity. Furthering the themes explored in his celebrated commission The Procession at Tate Britain, and his concurrent installation Gilt on the façade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibit engages with contemporary and historical inequities while reflecting on the landscape and history of the Caribbean. The exhibition draws its title from a poem by Guyanese political activist and poet Martin Carter which situates itself between two opposing forces of the landscape – sea and forest. Locke’s show features new sculptures and wall works with recurring motifs of stilt-houses, boats, memento mori, and share certificates referencing tensions between the land, the sea, and economic power. Reflecting on these links, Locke notes, “The land was created to generate money for colonial power, now the sea wants it back.”
Translating to ‘land of many waters,’ Guyana and its physical, economic, and political landscape serve as one of the primary sources for Locke’s work. Having spent his childhood in this newly independent nation, the artist witnessed first-hand an era of radical transformation. Now, the country teeters on the precipice of an oil boom and is one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Juxtaposing personal meditations on the climate crisis with political commentary on the history of a globalized world, Locke contemplates the ways in which colonies were exploited to accumulate capital, and observes how Guyana’s economic future lies in the exploitation of its waters. Locke’s new boat sculptures The Relic and The Survivor embody this broad worldview as the two battered wrecks drift through time and history. Evoking the fragmented and diverse legacies of the global diaspora, the boats’ patchwork sails are interspersed with photo transfers of 19th Century cane cutters and banana boat loaders, while their decks are loaded with cargo that could allude to colonial plunder, trade goods or personal belongings.
Based on an abandoned plantation house, Locke’s newest sculpture Jumbie House 2 features layered images that unveil the spirits that haunt this colonial vestige. Presented alongside are a series of painted photographs of dilapidated vernacular architecture across Georgetown and rural Guyana. Constantly under threat of being washed away by storms or rising sea levels, these crumbling structures echo anxieties surrounding climate change and historical erasure. A new series of mixed media wall works, Raw Materials, is derived from antique share certificates and bonds. Locke richly decorates the appliques with acrylic, beads, and patchwork to draw attention to the complex ways in which the past shapes the present. The image of an 1898 Chinese Imperial Gold Loan behind painted Congolese figures connects the global economy at the height of Empire to current Sino-African trade networks. In another work, a painted representation of a Nigerian Ife mask, alongside an image of David Livingstone, is layered on a French-African Mortgage Bond from 1923, connecting exploration and exploitation of African land, to current conversations surrounding the repatriation of artifacts. Taken together, the works in Locke’s Listening to the Land echo William Faulkner’s adage “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
This exhibition closes 4/1/23.
The Procession, mentioned above, can now be seen at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, in Gateshead, England until June 11th, 2023.
Gilt, also mentioned above, is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art until May 30th, 2023.
#hew locke#p.p.o.w#p.p.o.w gallery nyc#nyc art shows#sculpture#art installation#painting#guyana#baltic centre for contemporary art#the met#the metropolitan museum of art#uk art shows#art#art shows#models#photography#england art shows#gateshead#newcastle
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A small alternative text, because imagining England thinking to himself that, maybe in another life and another time, he has an ordinary life - And that life is just my Punk Dad Au
#hetalia#hetalia england#hetalia headcanons#hws england#hetalia america#hws america#Punk dad au#I don't have any clue what the two are chatting about#But it's absolutely for sure something mundane like dinner or what Alfred's got to do in school that day#Appreciating life lately fellas#It's summer and it's showing#Art tag
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Cinder again!!!
#the lunar chronicles#tlc#selene channary jannali blackburn#cinder linh#lunar chronicles fanart#the lunar chronicles fanart#marissa meyer#digital art#lunar chronicles art#lunar chronicles#the lunar chronicles art#TLC fanart#TLC art#Linh cinder#Selene blackburn#Yün-chien on google autocorrects to Yum Chien and shows you photos of dogs made of toast#you also get photos of dogs if you google cloud collar#so yunjian it is then#I have found an excuse for pretty clothes#now I need to find an excuse to give her a pet asian water monitor#there’s one on New England Reptile named Darling Dan and he’s $1000usd off#I want to know what he did to be put on sale#it just wanders into the nbj palace one day and stays forever#crawls onto her shelves and knocks off all the tools#pet water monitor as a wedding gift?????#to replace the pet roomba on luna that ate an important flashdrive and escaped the palace through an open door#wires and nerve gone rogue roomba
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#jane seymour#tudor fashion#england history#art#digital illustration#taniata's art#women in history#based on a family portrait and a scene from the tv show «the tudors»#when i think about jane i breathe easier.#when i look at portraits of jane i admire#she is my gentle love and inspiration
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Hon.
#hetalia#aph#hws#aph hetalia#aph england#aph france#fruk#in this case hon means honey hehe#arthur kirkland#francis bonnefoy#telephone calls in this show are gold XD#my 2nd digital art#digital art#ヘタリア
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Backstory headcanon- Harrow and Viren met at a small pastoral village where the royal family used to spend their summers and where Viren lived as Kpp’Ar’s apprentice
#virrow#varrow#tdp fan art#sarasadeart#I want to imagine them having one of those intense adolecent boy friendships#1800's England style#like high-fantasy has those all the time between men I could just insert one here#also make it gay 'cause why divide relationship to be either friendship or romance#why not a bit of both#if the authors have revealed their backstory don't tell me lmao#I follow the show's canon only everything else is way too complicated to keep up with
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The boys doin a silly meme dance (wip)
Probably won’t be done for another week but i just like how dumb their faces look :^)
#please show interest it will motivate me 🙏#hetalia#aph america#hws america#aph england#hws england#ukus#usuk#usukus#straystarship art#animation#animation meme#toonsquid
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I'm actually making a little England desktop pet right now and I'm just designing some of his poses for later when I actually need to add my own sprites. I'm coding his dialogue and stuff rn and let me tell you: at the moment, he's a bit twatty sassy but he's definitely the most entertaining
Yes, I want to make his balls clickable. Also, I really want to put him in different outfits to use the built in dress-up feature but I really can't be bothered right now lol, perhaps when I finish this first.
#I'm wanting to add some dialogue of him gossiping about other countries#hetalia#hws england#aph england#my art#ukagaka#i have to pitch this to everyone#like who doesn't want a fictional pasty brit complimenting your music taste#and poking fun at you at the same time#he can also search some things for you like restaurants :)#and show you photos of cats and bunnies#and he can speak nadsat! 👍
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More Borgia AU: In between avoiding whatever responsibilities he has as the assumed heir of the Vargas family, Feliciano is also banging his brother's cardinal coworker. The trouble comes when a papacy vacancy is imminent and Pietro is trying to justify himself while tearing down Lovino for keeping a mistress.
Full credit to @temtamtom for the Vatican design, he is canon to me now
I've also been having fun looking into 1490s-early 1500s clothing in Northern Europe, so here's a random Molly around the time she and Lovino met. Her hairline is showing, so scandalous, oh la la
#hetalia#borgia au#my art#hws veneziano#hws italy#hws ireland#nyo!ireland#hetalia oc#hws vatican#venetican#iremano#early iterations of the french hood were actually considered pretty daring in england#because it allowed married women to show their hair#of course in italy they were a lot more daring than that by the 1490s (much to molly's shock and delight)#but yeah pietro's whole outlook is he's more qualified bc he has a sense of shame and self loathing about his whole thing with feli#while lovino is admittedly pretty shameless about loving molly and their children#feli sees it as fun but when someone starts actively gunning for his brother... well it's a little harder to have a fling then
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Queen Alfred of the Fae
nsft-ish below cut
#nsft cuts off at the bits lol it doesn't show anything#ok ok listen just hear me out#pretty boy in a skimpy outfit#that's all i have to say for myself and I will die on this hill#he absolutely has more sensible clothing#he just chooses to dress like a try hard nymph (he got these clothes from a nymph)#i also have him in other colors if anyone is interested#i couldnt decide but i thought black looked best with the gold#aph america#aph england#garbage art#Hws america#Ukus#Usuk
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There is one thing and one thing only that Matthew holds resentment towards his brother about
It's not about Alfred being the world's only superpower. Not about Alfred's wealth. Not about Alfred clearly being Arthurs preferred son. Not even that Francis has historically always seeming gravitated towards being Alfred's mentor. All those things he can live with or has learned to live with.
The thing that he holds the most resentment about? Alfred uses 5 in 1 Irish Spring and Dial bar soap yet has prefect hair and skin. All while Matthew spends thousands of dollars every year on expensive hair care and skincare products in the never-ending battle to get his acne prone skin and fly-away soft curly hair under control.
And to make matters worse, the Dial soap is actually a new addition to Alfred's routine. He was finally convinced to stop using homemade wood ash soap in the late 70s.
#or is this all a lie that he lets Matt think? and he really gets treatment from some state of the art Hollywood esthetician#once Alfred showed up a meeting in the mid-1980s with longer then normal hair#his curls were on full display until Matt grabbed him and was like “cut it. Cut it now. long curly hair MY thing. It's all I have you dick#and since then Alfred has never let his hair out of the army regulated cut lamo#hws america#hws canada#alfred f jones#matthew williams#historical hetalia#hws england#na bros#hws#aph#hetalia
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If you haven’t it’s in the realm of the Ella Enchanted style (historical but also modern). It’s very silly and dramatic and you should watch it with some friends.
#books#tv#tv shows#tv series#amazon#amazon prime#historical fantasy#historical fashion#historical#fashion#king henry viii#queen elizabeth ii#england#my lady jane#magic#horse#couple#love#romance#drama#money#royalty#comedy#book art#memes#pets#cottagecore#ceramics#poetry#baking
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My attempt at a scene from the Hetalia Horror Show but in a PC-98 style
Also the first in a very long time that I've drawn America, England and Spain lmao
#hetalia#hws#hetalia horror show#pc98 style#hetalia romania#hetalia america#hetalia england#hetalia spain#hws romania#hws america#hws england#hws spain#art#artwork#my art#my artwork
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Cherry Blossom is pleased to find a floral display that matches her own colours so nicely.
At the Devon Show, in England.
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Love him
#12th doctor#doctor who#10th doctor#bbc doctor who#bbc dr who#peter capaldi#digital illustration#digital art#digital fanart#fanart#fan art#art#11th doctor#9th doctor#dw#tv shows#procreate#italy#england#wowowo#I forget I have this app lol#meowmeow#baby girl#Sherlock#david tennant#good omens#matt smith#christopher eccleston#twelfth doctor#eleventh doctor
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My dear, I love that summer is coming though but ,I love autumn aesthetic too much ! What can one do ?
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#flowers#photo filters#cute#fun with filters#glitch#photography#rose#aesthetic#fypシ#moody aesthetic#street photography#kaleidoscope#funky alternatives#different#alternative#alt girl#vintage#retro#england#sun and moon show#sunseeker#spring#life#autism#floral#recycled art#art#psychodelic#photoshoot#plants
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