#veralyn

[fonproject]

what if i told you they’re back! ⭐️♥️⚡️

[apollocabinrep]

I will be making & posting more (feel free to recommend) SoSF playlists! For now, here is Veralyn! (Vera Bates/Evelyn Laurent) Cover art is by @mixxmoon which is also in the description

[knifebulbceo]

[knightlymoon]

Paradise and Meadow Sextus!

they're rivals :D

[divinesmith1023]

Summerlove

Sometimes, Veralyn doesn't realize when she's talking nonsense, Vera was born in the early 2000s

[thenerdsofcolor]

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'King Hedley II'

It is always a pleasure to review any productions at A Noise Within because more often than not, they constantly deliver bold works of art from all aspects in the creative department. This is to be the case once again for King Hedley II, an incredible rendition of August Wilson‘s ninth play in his ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle series. Directed by Gregg T. Daniel who has previously directed A Noise…

[knifebulbceo]

I uh remade this redraw of an II scene from 4 months ago

remake undercut

:p

Original reference beloww..

Time lapse: literally 19 minutes. I'm deadass rn Ibispaint x said so

[divinesmith1023]

I forgot about Veralyn Andreovitch. Vera was best girl for Roselaine Clemensen

[knifebulbceo]

guys ite tehem!!! It's them!!!!!!! SOBS

[kabewski]

I'm finally sculpting my own 3D characters!

Behold, three dimensional Veralyn!

[veralynnmorriscapital]

Veralynn Morris Capital Portfolio Management - A Registered Investment Advisor

Veralynn Morris is a registered investment advisor with Capital Portfolio Management. She has built an exceptional resume over the last three decades in the financial services industry and provides insight and guidance to clients. Veralyn Morris provides a robust assortment of investment and financial planning services, and she has been instrumental in helping her clients at Capital Portfolio Management achieve their financial goals while complying with regulatory guidelines.

[bjdinfo]

Would it be possible to get a comparison of Volks NS/SWS with Impldoll's resins? I... really want to use a head I have on their muscle girl body if there's a good match there, ahah~

This is probably really belated, but I finally found one more recent comparison of Impldoll Real Skin with a Volks Pure Skin Normal/Fair match, Fanff Normal.

2021 Resinsoul Normal, 2021 LoongSoul French Normal, 2021 Twigling Pink, 2021 Dollstown/Dollshe Fresh

2021 Supia Doll Normal, 2021 Dollshe Oriental, 2023 Impldoll Real Skin, 2023 SartoriaJ Peach Cream, 2023 FanFF Normal (matches Volks Normal according to preorder info)

By VeraLyne on Den of Angels

[knifebulbceo]

uhm! I ♡ these character designs but WHY IS A 30 YEAR OLD CLOSE FRIENDS WITH AN 8 YEAR OLD? I found this on my computer last night and js had to say SOMETHING about it when I looked at their ages..

Its rlly concerning if I'm gonna be honest

some of the object show ocs I posted on my tiktok from a show I'm working on!! (SOS/Scarfys object show)

[alexandraunderthesun]

Firelei Báez: Sueño de la Madrugada (A Midnight’s Dream)

Sueño de la Madrugada (A Midnight’s Dream) is an exhibition at South London Gallery, by the New Curators Fellowship.

Firelei Báez is an Afro-Carribean artist whose work explores themes of science, Black and colonial narratives, spirituality, mythology, and migration. She is a trans-disciplinary artist who utilizes paintings, installations, drawings, and sculptures in her practice.

I am a sucker for a good installation; walking into the gallery I passed their book shop (fantastic selection by the way) and stepped into Báez immersive installation. There was an immediate calming sense that took over me; as if the dark blue canopy was a night sky and the pockets of light were stars. According to the text, the blue tarps symbolize those used during hurricanes and a troubled relationship between refuge and calamity.

If this artwork was intended to be laid on, I 100% would have done so. Under this night time-esque canopy installation, I would love to lay in the position of this iconographic symbol-figure.

These creatures are Ciguapas, figures that are popular within Dominican folklore. Constructed out of aluminum silhouettes, they do not commit to one single form and are positioned intermittently throughout the exhibition.

"As in the myth, they evade straightforward interpretation. Two key traits persist: their backwards-facing feet, rendering them untraceable,and their flowing, lustrous mane. Recalling childhood stories, Báez envisions Ciguapas as fluid in gender, embodying diverse identities. By painting these mythical creatures, Báez prompts viewers to reconsider what it means to be human and to imagine freedom from earthly constraints."

This text makes me think of Katherine McKittrick's Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, which is a critical review of cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter and her ideas on how race, location, and time inform human identity. Within her scholarly research, Wynter incorporates her Caribbean identity politics, migration, science, and more.

The second part of the exhibition was at the "Fire Station", which is a part of the South London Gallery Space. I almost wish the space wasn't separated; it felt as if my immersive experience had ended in an abrupt manner.

Walking into the Fire Station, there are colorful floor to ceiling figurative-abstraction paintings. I used to thoroughly dislike abstract work, I just didn't understand it. As I have gotten older and more into conceptual and theoretical art/framework, it is now one of my top genres. Recently, I have also been enjoying figurative-abstraction. I like the practice of being able to identify some parts of an artwork, but I don't need to identify all. Within Firelei Báez's work, I enjoyed the colorful abstraction elements to be left up to my imagination.

More Ciguapas!

At the end of the exhibition in the Fire Station, there is an artist video where Báez discusses her artist practice. In the video, she cites the biggest competition in the art world is tech, which I 80% agreed with. There are so many ways to create work from digital technologies, even from your iPhone. I understand her point, but does the incorporation of tech in the art constitute as competition? From a techno-optimist perspective (quoting Veralyn) and to play Devil's Advocate, how can artists build off of technology to help them?

The rest of my notes from the video included:

This idea that there are ways of understanding visual language in its own has its own pathways

Abstraction like technologies allows us to step out what we expect to see and give us room to imagine what we see 

Main hope of the space is to bring you back on and connect you back to your senses

I love the room and space Firelei Báez gives within her work to imagine and create worlds of our own through subtraction. In response to the second bullet point, regardless of what I am expecting to see or understand when entering an exhibition, it is almost always debunked. Her abstraction allows visitors to create a world of their own.

If you are in London, I highly encourage you to check out the show. Read more here: https://www.southlondongallery.org/exhibitions/firelei-baez/

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Catching up on posts for things I have seen recently - King Hedley II at A Noise Within:

This was the fifth of the Pittsburgh Cycle plays I have seen, and I was curious about this one as a follow-on to Seven Guitars which I saw at the same theater three years ago. Unfortunately, this was also in between rounds of Lempicka and I didn't have a lot of space in my brain to keep the details. So I might think about revisiting this at some point if it there is another production nearby in the next few years.

General spoiler-y thoughts:

One similarity between the two plays which I should have been prepared for (but was not) was how long Act I was. I think it took a good hour and 45 minutes; every character seemed to have a monologue or two, and to be honest I was getting a little drowsy. One reason I particularly appreciated the portrayal of Ruby (by Veralyn James) was that she spoke with a different rhythm than all of the other characters - it made it easier to follow what she was saying because she was a little more deliberate and left space between her words, and it also made her seem a little out of step with the others.

I came away thinking the women in this set of plays (so far) seem very grounded in terms of doing the practical things that allow someone to survive and maybe build a future, but they have extremely difficult lives, and at least in these last two it has been the women who are forced to pick up and move on after the men in their lives are gone.

And the men are so clearly trapped by the past. King Hedley II in particular goes through the whole play trying to live up to ideas of what his father did or what he thinks his father would do; when he finds out that the person he thought was his father wasn’t his father, he seems to come to terms with that without too much of an issue (?), but then readily accepts a whole new burdensome legacy according to these fixed rules of honor and masculinity he has set for himself. He has big ideas for his future (and talks about them at length) but has a really limited set of ways to achieve his goals, so he falls back on what he knows - even if those methods are what got him into prison in the past and are what eventually lead him to his fate. It's pretty bleak because you get the idea that if he were able to raise a child as he hoped, he'd teach that kid the same ideas and they would be caught in the same cycle.

[knifebulbceo]

HAPPY NATIONAL GIRLFRIENDS DAY IGGG...

uhmm drew my otp!!! (Knifebulb) giys I LOVE YURI