Posts by almeidastudio
Just STOP FLYING already! - unless it is LITERALLY an emergency.
~12” x 24” Invisible Bed Flea of Perpetuation. Painted out of the skull-splitting knowing of baby girls even now being born into this immersive insidious cult of using up women like animals bred for food, convincing them they want it, and convincing them to DO the convincing. On and f---ing on.
keep this going
William Seaward Burroughs.
1914 - 1997.
The Pinnacle of the Twentieth Century.
"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity."
o m g so true 😑
L Almeida Study for "Forgive Me" ptg. Let the shared visioning of what must be built commence -shape change -dig deep into both real and metaphorical sketches. Won't be easy, guys. Pls take care of urself and all the peeps & thingies around u. Care for those that crawl back across the line in grief.
When our communities are under attack, what do we do? Unite and fight back! Join the #MayDayStrong National Day of Action to demand a new era for educators, our communities, and all workers: nea.org/mayday
"I can't come in today I have to get my Dictator Removed"😉
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Clair Falkenstein Structure and Flow #2.
Artists: REMEMBER NOW that we have ALWAYS brought people together to engage in the most unlikely and odd things that make zero $. - but which create profound memory, HISTORY, joy, thought, meaning, inspiration and PERMISSION.
Pls take care.
Artists REMEMBER WHO WE R: The ones ALWAYS living on the fringes of systems. The ones who surprise. The ones who've held 537 strange jobs to support our studio habit and learned 894 curious skills doing so. NOW we MODEL living lean and mean in relevance and generosity.
image from Unspeakable Paper 2
Artcl: “We must struggle to change our institutions, but our resistance to the depravity and depletion of these times must go beyond that. It must also occur in our souls. ...We can transmit, even if imperfectly, the contents of our imaginations. ...We are not doomed. ”
5'x7' "Levitation 2: Flag"
Pple may say: "well, you can paint signs!" -and u can. But 'tis a drop n the proverbial bucket of artist's relevance NOW. Be CLEAR: We've the power to observe and express the otherwise invisibles in this pressurized frenzy. We've ALWAYS shown what cannot be easily spoken.
"The Mother" 4'x4' latex on canvas.
Artists: Yes, now, BE the continuance and protection of deep culture - polished, raw, intellectual or naive. BE the embodiment of un-squelch-able human spirit EVERY SINGLE DAY despite the sad nasty squelchers. It will annoy them and it will inspire everybody else.