Oh my lord. Beauty! Thank you, as always.

I tell them your idea of global capitalism may be garden variety daisies but it is a serious effort, not satire. It deserves respect and is an actual attempt to show learnedness. They say "Destitute" but I say sophisticated, in time.

(They laugh at your self-reference as an artist, but they're wrong! You are a beautiful artist. A slug becomes a butterfly, in time.)

Still, I tell them you are not quite self-aware enough yet to grasp the inanity of a healthy white artist criticising healthy white artists criticising healthy white artists.

This poor lad is only "trying to enact a praxis of self-satisfied, self-perpetuating detachment, by offering self-implicating entanglement." (Then they laugh even louder, which is annoying because they obviously miss the point!)

It starts with reading first what you comment on so you can be taken seriously. Then taking time to distill and compose. So they laugh at you but I still trt to explain to them using your words:

You must know your attempts to show understanding of music is a laboured metaphor of didacticism, like Bach but through a tape recorder manual. Please rethink your approach.

For a year now, some friends have made an effort to stop others from letting you know what they think of your musings, lest you stop posting and thus deprive them of entertainment. But it is cruel, especially for the ones who know you.

This is not good. All the effort to show depth after citing Mieczysław Weinberg and you still end up a common ventriloquist of a bird fart mimicking Benjamin's pinky toenail immitating a piece of Weetabix. You can fix this. Just alter the attitude.

Happy happy joy joy!

Aratiles. OC.

Thank you for this.

OC

OP

"The Guitar" by Juan Gris is a striking example of Synthetic Cubism, using geometric shapes and a muted color palette to depict a fragmented guitar against a decorative floral background. Gris' characteristic approach blends texture and pattern, reflecting a sophisticated interplay between form and abstraction.

The guitar https://www.wikiart.org/en/juan-gris/the-guitar-1914

This is gorgeous. Thank you.

I love van Kessel, Dragonflies, Durer, and Flegel most. But there's something about the tulips that makes it feel kinetic, like an almost imperceptible wilting. Deep bow, yet again, for the gifts. Thank you.

Beauty. OC.

Juan Gris and Roberto Chabet continue the conversation in Sintra. #LichenLove

Largo do Carmo at night. OC

They said #LivrariaLello is the most gorgeous bookshop in the world. Seems very accurate. OC

Lisbon's arco, just before the sea. OC

Lisbon Wellow! OC

Lisbon's train station. OC

Porto. OC.

Ribeira Douro. OC.

Good lord that looks the way you described it. I can smell the pine and almost felt like squinting. It'll be years before I get to sample the beer but thanks for the motivation to stay patient. We have Sarumans in Asia to deal with, as you there make an effort to send Mordor back to the abyss.

Still Life with Guitar

Still Life with Guitar https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/34180/

Gorgeous! Thank you ser!

OC.