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Even fucking time is gendered, I hate it here so much!!! aaaaaaaa
But art good ✧(..◜ᴗ◝..)
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PS: I don't often vibe with this kind of work (it's more fun to make than to watch or engage with usually, if that makes sense?) but this really hit me at the right time! So make of that what you will
Feb 23, 2025
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It can feel as alienating and heartbreaking to make anything right now. The attempt is what matters. I’ve been trying to make art for a while and feel gratification in doing it but I think that’s the problem isn’t it? We force it and when it doesn’t come out in the way we want it to it feels like we shouldn’t even try. By the nature of you making it ’s important, and your art is needed rlight now-
even though it doesn’t feel like its being witnessed. You are a witness to it
Mar 15, 2025
A fascinating example of women using textile art as a revolutionary tool.
Side note:
I feel like a LOT lately the sentiment that “art is revolutionary” has been pretty wide sweeping and all encompassing, but I feel like the over generalization has lead to some lazy art that relies too heavy on identity politics (speaking more specifically about what I’ve seen in white dominated queer spaces) to carry the weight of what the work (and the process behind the work) is supposed to be rebelling against. I agree that art can be a tool to revolution if it is used with direct intent and inventive methods.
Apr 9, 2025
I understand the stop-at-whatever-catches-your-eye style of visiting museums and galleries but it makes me sad to see people rush through. The real joy of art is the breakthrough that occurs after engaging with a made thing.
Some helpful questions to ask:
-What is the title of the piece and how does it relate it what I see?
-Why did I stop/hurry past?
-Why is it here? Does it belong to the space or to a theme?
-What does it allow me to do/see/think/play with?
May 19, 2024
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Lately I've been spending too much time scouring every corner of eBay I can for the cheapest and most delightful soviet era porcelain figurines available
I didn't even realize it until diving head first into this rabbit hole, but I have had soviet era porcelain figurines my whole life (a bunny and a bull for those curious), so I guess I was always destined to develop a fondness for the form, and eventually dig a little deeper into it.
There is something so incredibly charming and also incredibly interesting about these porcelain pieces! These little guys!
There's a lot of history to dig into that I've barely scratched the surface of AT ALL, but I'm fascinated by how porcelain reflected the common sentiments* of the times, the economic conditions, the artistic movements and ideas of the day, and also the ability (or lack thereof) of people to stay in one place and hold onto something so "useless" and easily broken.
I have very, very few things from any of my ancestors. Figurines like these make me think about the way history and art are passed down to us, forgotten, broken, left behind, sold in thrift stores and online, if they survive at all.
Figurine collections are kind of a barometer of safety and stability, or at least how dedicated to the illusion of it you might be.
They also make me think about how useful "useless" things can be. How even art that is purely decorative can be thought-provoking (by for example valorizing "folks"), or just make you happy (via being very cute! Or expert use of color and form!).
Grannies collect this shit for many good reasons and I'm starting to catch on.
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* Notably the $$$ collectors type ones are the ethnographic figurines, something I NEED to read an academic paper about.
Especially, because Ive noticed some of these figurines depicting "ethnic types" are inaccurate copies of earlier prints, which themselves should be placed under immense scrutiny! This is all extra interesting in the context of the porcelain industry transitioning from imperial rule to the soviet era. The ways of talking about ethnicity changed, (in addition obviously to y'know, everything!) but the products produced largely remained the same. Lots to think about!!!
Jan 31, 2025