YOU BITCH

Archived ceramic works, I wonder where they are now?

LAST day 2 order - I’m shutting down my store :(

i love you ancient girls and women making things

i dont know the dates on these but i bet they are 19th century at the earliest and the beeswax doll is probably even mid-century

'You and I are Earth'

Hell yeah im a slut (non practicing)

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

Untitled, 1970s, with embroidered scripture added mid-1980s; quilted by Irene Bankhead, 1997; found and repurposed hand- and machine-embroidered fabrics, decorative trim, crocheted doilies, velveteen, shisha mirror embroidery, cotton thread embroidery, and cotton muslin backing; 102 × 92 in

Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective available until July 18, 2021 at https://bampfa.org/rosie-lee-tompkins-media 

Cy Twombly, ‘Wilder Shores of Love’, oil paint, house paint, paint stick, coloured pencil, pencil on panel, 1985

i am once again reblogging my own work

— FKA Twigs, responding to the question of why she didn’t leave her abuser. (via closet-keys)

The Vibrant Life of Harlem in the Summer of 1970 

Photographer Jack Garofalo captured a series of striking photos of Harlem for Paris Match magazine during a period of six weeks in the summer of 1970.

Gabriele Picco, Nuvola (Cloud), 2005-2006

Photo by paloma wool on November

Gees Bend Quilt

Okada Yoshio — Surfer Girl  (woodblock, 1974)

my mum knew i was sad so she went out and when she came back inside she called me up to her room and showed me this