#the arts of noticing

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Australian aboriginal rock art at Gabarnmung.

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“Let’s hope we are learning more about the ‘arts of noticing.’ This kind of attention is not about relationships between the human brain and ‘the world out there’ but is all about immersion in living ecologies. Aboriginal people I have worked with learn about it from their elders. As children they are not encouraged to ask questions, just to be attentive. After a while they know. It is know-how more than knowledge. When an Aboriginal tracker sees things in the environment that the rest of us fail to notice, this is not a matter of a specialised psychology, but a matter of intergenerational attunement in a particular world. Noticing one thing may also depend on being attuned to many others: the sun, the wind and the way finches flock in that part of the country. It’s an art, but not necessarily an individual one. It comes in bursts, or in waves.”

~ Stephen Muecke, 'Academia Letters', November 2020

[Ian Sanders]

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village

[inkedberries]

after patrolling, unwinding in a diner somewhere ...

throw the man a bone batman geez

[spacialsquid]

i like them

[millidew]

his change in career has captivated me

bonus:

[frootertooter]

I had a vision hit me and had to drop everything to doodle it

Enjoy

[ninjasmudge]

cant have been easy watching aym and baal sprint around and not being able to join in

[beachsideufo]

a strange internet phenomenon 2

[gotchibam]

Sylveon sends love your way! 💗

Available as print! ✨

[seren-dipitous-art]

If chaos was personified I think it would be Damian. Tiny child filled with rage and equipped with far too many weapons.

They look SO CUTE altogether!!

I love this au so much. Bats on thrones makes me so happy.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[beidak-art]

koscheing around

[twisting-in-wonderland]

why does he meow?

[gailynovelry]

You know those aesthetic image posts that float around tumblr? I'm . . . starting to see a lot on my dash that are obviously ai-generated. Are non-artists having trouble telling the difference between AI images and real photos, or are people starting to stop care about the stolen art that gets fed into those programs?

[diornies]

Suddenly, it's December by margaux paul

[kimeoshi]

man I love @havanillas 's merventurine au

process gif under cut: