thinking about this today
laura benson
Theater Camp (2023), dir. Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
Ernest Martin Hennings - Thistle Blossoms (1929)
the way the war in gaza has been constantly about targeting flour, targeting hospitals, targeting universities, targeting water containers, targeting anything that brings life in order to "thin out the population" and "encourage palestinians to move to tent cities in egypt"
and then you have western media readily calling it a "humanitarian crisis" therefore fulfilling israel's goal of manufacturing a humanitarian crisis. this entire war was with the purpose of collectively punishing a civilian population of 50% children. that's why it was immediately understood and labelled as a genocide by multiple genoide scholars, by the lemkin institute, and is currently on trial for genocide at the hague
like the starvation and the blocking of aid and the dropping of parachuted MREs to just barely salvage the reputation of a few politicians is not a byproduct of the war. it's not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. acquiescing to israelis blocking aid by building ports and dropping pallets of food means acquiescing to famine as a strategy instead of trying to stop it. famine is not collateral damage, it is a central pillar of genocide. killing children is not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. we don't need hindsight to say this plainly, anyone who denies it now is another pillar of genocide.
Mossy cathedral
-Western redcedar (Thuja plicata)
Douglas fir (Pseudosuga menziesii)
-Sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
Came Back Wrong from the gocey store
forgot something
my oanges
Chaos. The Genesis — by Ivan Aivazovsky
𝕱𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖓 𝕶𝖎𝖓𝖌
by David M. Beck
Finished present for my dad of his 7y/o Great Dane Gertrude. She likes to melt on the couch. Really happy with how this turned out!
vintage booth
trying to present simple concepts that work best with a casual/unplanned atmosphere in a polished illustration