HOOOLLLYYY SHIT ABSOLUTION COVER REVEAL AND REPRINT OF THE TRILOGY TO MATCH IT OHHHHHHHHHH MY GODDDD
Bayard Hollins (American,b.1966)
Rising Moon Bear, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
Spotted deer. Javanese batik designs from metal stamps. 1924.
Can someone please explain to me WHY no one can accept that I knit for pleasure?? Every time someone compliments me on my knitting they ask me if I've thought about selling it. NO GOD DAMMIIT NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A SIDE HUSTLE
It would take all the pleasure out of it.
Bring back people doing things for fun. Jesus.
When people ask me that, I usually just say “yes” and wait. Either they’re taken aback by the one word answer and don’t push it, more usually they fall into my cunning trap and ask where I sell stuff. To which I then reply, “I don’t. No one wants to pay $500 for a pair of socks.”
If they are foolish enough to continue their questioning, they are subjected to my rant about the historical devaluation of textile labour, analysis of the time put into each garment I make and its retail cost at a fair wage, and the methods by which fast fashion has trained consumers to devalue handmade goods even more than was the case historically when labour was cheap but materials were expensive. Sometimes I even manage to squeeze in a few words about the problems with the puritanical notion of productivity, how it’s been further bastardised by capitalism, and how attempts to monetise every facet of one’s life results in burnout and despair. Though by the time I’ve warmed up to that they’ve usually fled in terror from the short bearded king who’s gone on such a terrifying rant while aggressively knitting a sock at them.
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what the fuck is a salesforce. we're briefly alive for a few violent decades
Lithuanian grass weaving by Giedrazole Gie
Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976) - Nocturne, oil on board on wood panel, 26.8 x 21.7 cm (1949)
Tove Jansson, Den farliga resan (The Dangerous Journey) 1977
Frank Bidart, from ‘The Third Hour of the Night’
Suad Al-Attar, Visions from Garden of Eden, 2011
Naomi Tydeman Ri, English painter
"moonrise" (watercolor)
Distortions by The Phantom Painter
My skeletal ass hands represented in fine art at last