Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No. 1, 1913–15, watercolor, gouache, graphite, and ink on paper, 17 7⁄8 × 11 5⁄8".
Am-a-zing!
▫️ “The Dearest Devotion ” ▫️
(air, land, sea)- to self, your loves, and community, on our ever so small yet vast planet.
(cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze) ceramic wall tiles made from my gay and trans perspective :)
extras: The albatrosses stem from the broad number of female same-sex lifelong couples. The bucks and whales stem from documented homosexual behaviour of the species. A kobudai is also featured in the third tile changing sex from female to male.
As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.
stop drawing old dad and his crazy daughter and get to work.
compilation
This guy is a plate
Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis, Lycidae
Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook
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"Former culture undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi defends the girl who climbed Giambologna's Bacchus statue in Florence miming a sexual act. 'It is a transfiguration: when art is truer than life. An amorous exaltation. No real man can compete with Cellini's Perseus. A drunk girl performs a critical act, not an erotic one.'"