#vibrant materialism

[noosphe-re]

Introduction to 'Figured Stones' by Paul Prudence

All over the world are scattered stones that contain tiny kingdoms of petrified forests and model mountains. These stones, with their imagined societies of people, their animals and mythical creatures, await to do trade and form alliances. In each rock you may find exotic gardens, encrusted cliffs and the wrecks of ruined palaces. And every space is overrun by lichens, vines and exotic herbs. That ‘figured stones’ have been prized for their mimicry of miniature topographies of Lilliputian beauty is well attested by the great collections as far back as the T’ang dynasty. But even before that era of great adoration, these rocks had already weathered their apparitions into the human imagination. The pre T’ang literature tells of strange rocks in wild places that took the form of dragons, saints and even monsters. And the metaphysics of the microcosm found an early apogee in the emperor’s magic monuments made entirely from these stones.

Erosion, whose secrets are occluded only by time itself, has been busy; slowly dissolving rough rock into miniature worlds. The flow of water – that fertile archetype of time itself – has worn tiny rivers and valleys into stone, copying those processes of the greater world. Time flows through water and time flows through rocks, transforming them into mirror-worlds by attrition. And with more time these tiny streams in stone are turned into caves and tunnels which burrow down into the foundations of our own subconscious worlds. These sunless chambers form the perfect refuges for the dreamt-up denizens of our inflamed imaginations.

Nature has summoned its blind forces to create a fractal dimension, for each rock is a replica that exposes all the processes by which the world fully reveals – and comprehends – itself. As diminished echoes of the earth’s own features, figured stones offer us foci for studying a sense of planetary introspection. In depicting the greater essences of its smaller self, nature’s trick becomes a form of self-awareness – nature’s ‘that I am’ is cast into solid conscious form as the geological recollections of a former world are made manifest. The ghosts of stratified histories cascade through time and leave their marks in rock as totems or as scripts, or as tiny worlds, complete.

—Paul Prudence, Figured Stones: Exploring the Lithic Imaginary

[nobleriver]

DOCTOR WHO | Forest of the Dead

[pocketramblr]

you know im thinking. im thinking maybe Yoichi wasn't even that into captain hero as an adult, but AfO kept bringing LITERALLY every conversation back to that because he decided to Be The Demon Lord and so Yoichi like, can't get an argument in unless he uses the same material so he's like 'oh my god i haven't even thought about that comic in ten years but even i know the bad guy didn't win. you should not be basing you whole identity, business model, and world destruction plan on your five-second impression of a comic book bad guy who didn't even win! also you shouldn't kill people!'

[pianokantzart]

The Mushroom Kingdom The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

[barksbog]

glass catfish in the shop tomorrow?

[gyamfieric]

some days...

....as days go

[fuchsiaamorouscoils]

salvaged vintage floral lid

I'm going to use it for some painting or artwork of mine...

[wweeird]

89/100 electrified tongues

materials (5, the day when even 10 wouldn’t be enough): an orange Derwent Inktense pencil + a blue Sennelier + a purple Van Gogh oil pastel + a yellowish green Neocolor + a pencil. the page was ‘prepped’ with children’s felt pen.

it’s 3materialsdrawingchallenge hosted by @/naomitippingillustrator, @/charlotte.durance and @/kathryn_boyt. the point of this challenge is to draw every day for a 100 days from life using just 3 materials and for no more than 30 minutes.

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[queensparklekitten]

minecrafters reblog with how you picture your elytra wings

[estergen]

one of the things that most proves to me the intelligence of all animals is not just the things we can see in animals who are generally considered brainless meat robots like bugs and worms and so on, but in how similarly the "advanced intelligence" we see in distantly related species like birds and octopus, the intelligence of birds to me proves that the thing that "became" both mammal intelligence and bird intelligence was in our present in our last common ancestor and we are both using it. i think the same thing happened with us and octopus. this says to me that the biological tools of intelligence are common across so many species! they think like us they act like us, they even respond in the same way to drugs as we do!! why would we not acknowledge this intelligence in the theories we use to describe the world around us, and more importantly, why would we not put this in to our ethics!!!

[russellmoreton]

Assemblage : Aesthetic Convergence/Architectures by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com Cultivation Field/Vibrant Matter Becoming complicit with materials Realist Magic, Objects, Ontology, Causality. Timothy Morton. 2013 Matter and Desire, an erotic ecology. Andreas Weber. 2017 Vibrant Matter, a political ecology of things. Jane Bennett. 2010 Therese Oulton Paintings and new digital prints Lines of Flight. 2006 Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description Tim Ingold. 2011

[divya-quapri]

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[gigivas]

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[aiizaph]

I have the materials… >:)

Tomorrow though… it’s twelve and I’ve just been working on a new song nonstop since like eight.