Guess Who Stumble Upon The Twilight Fandom And Now Designing Her Fav Character? This Gal. 

callout post for me

Graduation

אחד התרגילים הראשונים שלי בבצלאל, הצגת חפץ. החפץ שבחרתי הוא לסת תחתונה של תן(?) שמצאתי בטיול בואדי לוטם, ליד חיפה.

(הבדיחה היא שבימי הביניים אף אחד לא ידע/טרח לצייר חיות בצורה ריאליסטית והם סתם המציאו דברים מפחידים ואז ברנסאס התחילו ללמוד לצייר בצורה מדעית ואז כבר הפסיקו לצייר את חיות ימה”ב היפות האלה שאני אוהבת ככ. סליחה שהסברתי את הבדיחה אני פשוט יוצאת מנקודת הנחה שהיא מבוססת על ידע כללי ככ נידח שמה הסיכוי שאנשים יבינו אותה)

two self portraits for inktober

“Intimate Apparel” renderings - part 2. #lynnnottage #intimateapparel #costumesketch #costumerenderings #gouache #edwardian #1900sfashion #nyutisch #tischdrama

Sleep is for the weak

rainy day（´‿｀）

Sketch for a hypothetical sculpture. A mashup between Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” and Danziger’s “Nimrod”.

Degas was known misogynist, who was quoted comparing the ballet dancers he made a career out of drawing, to work horses and rats. His Little Dancer used to be one of my favorite sculptures, until I saw it last year in DC and read up about it and him, and what I learned saddened me deeply.

I carried that sadness around for a while. Yesterday I went to the Israel Museum and saw another one of my all time favorite sculptures, Nimrod. The biblical character Nimrod is described as “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” But the root from which his name comes means “to rebel,” and in Talmudic literature, he is the despised idolater who erected the Tower of Babel in order to overthrow God. Danziger took the hawk on Nimrod’s shoulder from Egyptian art, underscoring the link between his sculpture and the ancient pagan world. The absence of legs likens the figure to an archaeological find, as does the reddish sandstone from Petra.

I suddenly realized how similar they look- same arm pose, same defiant, chin-up manner.

So I gave the little dancer a hawk, and cut off her “work horse” legs, and finally her defying stance is complete. She can finally rebel against her oppressors, armed with Nimrod’s mythical hunting abilities and his intent to overthrow the powers who would dominate him. Time’s up.

And if a kid breaks in a school and no one around chooses to hear, do they make a sound?

To This Day: X (video)