I love paintings of women reading. I think it’s because these images depict moments when these women are not available to anything but their book and the demands of their own imagination. Take a look at a few of my favourites here ( #art #books):
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Jonah and the Whale, Pieter Lastman, 1612, #art
An Australian advertisement about saving petrol dating from 1979. I'm not sure why everyone in it is nude.
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Poetry - and any art form - are so important right now, putting into form our anxiety and dread when words fail us, slyly sliding in a little hope when we need it, and restoring us to ourselves. What poems do you turn to for solace?
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Army of the Apocalypse, from The Welles Apocalypse, 1310 #art
"In time, Isabel, grief brings its own munificence. I hear this over and over again on The Red Hand Files. People obliterated, rearranged, and ultimately restored anew."
#grief
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The Hall of Stars, design for The Magic Flute, Karl Friedrich Thiele, after Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1848
“My Year of H.O.R.S.E. I want a year full of High-fidelity, to feel Organic, to notice what is Rare and Significant, and to explore Exquisite experiences.”
Rotana Ty sharing his responses to my creative prompts in this joyful blog:
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Read what I have written about the feedback-giving sin of being nasty:
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Fairy Tales, Paul Klee, ca. 1920 #art
"Underneath it all is a very human question:
What is it we need from each other? That AI can’t replace?"
I really liked this piece by Dr Cathryn Lloyd on Artificial Intelligence, applied improvisation, and (love this) artful inquiry.
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I have but one job: A blog about a poem about an artist:
“DeTiberus’ Gentileschi is right: an artist has one job and that is to engage their audience. What the audience does with that engagement is up to them.”
#art #poetry
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by Chris Long
Feedback and resilience: The point of feedback is to critique someone’s work to help them improve it, not to bash up their sense of resilience. Read my note on the link between being creative and being resilient:
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Ghost Caring for her Child, Chikuyosai Tomochika, mid 19c. #art
Illustration from Nos Invisibles, Raffaele Mainella, 1907 #Art
The Nocturnal Worlds podcast is beautifully written, narrated, and produced, and the soundscape and text take you inside the life of a nocturnal creature as it sniffs, senses, peers at, and moves through its nightscape. Enlightening and relaxing.
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"I’ve spent enough time in the natural world to know the difference between a thought that was processed and a thought that arrived. The processed ones are faster, but the arrived ones are usually the right ones." - Marc Cinanni
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From Festons und Decorative Gruppen, Martin Gerlach
Connecting: A short piece about those moments of connection that reach past our normal conception of ‘foreign’ or ‘different’ and connect the inspiration and artistic skill of an artist and the creative interpretation of a viewer. #art
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"Sometimes, there is little we need to do but stand back, bow our heads, and receive this gift of abundance with awe and gratitude."
Nick Cave on #grief and #creativity.
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Do you like cats? You’ll enjoy this post, then. Cat-related #art #poetry and words.
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Tiger Family, Ganku, ca. late 18c. - early 19c.
I can't recommend Ian Dunt's beautiful essay enough, both for its denunciation of Trump and its articulation of hope as embodied in the space mission.
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Study of an arm by Leonardo #Art
“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone / for those of us who cannot indulge / the passing dreams of choice…” from A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
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Reconsidering the details: On the space between your eyebrows. And zooming in and out when looking at art.
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“It is morning. Remember that. / It is morning and the house is quiet, / so quiet that I can, for the moment, set myself / to wandering. I can sit patient at the door. / I can beg and bang to be let in.” - from An Optimism by Cameron Awkward-Rich
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Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Tokyo, 1953 #Photography #Art
