Jan 23, 2024
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love a nice tapestry, embroidery, a good rug
audrey robinovitz’s work is truly breathtaking (her piece “deadly weapons” pictured below)
Jun 14, 2024
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Art is about more than identity, can allow us to transcend identity, but having been raised in the art world of the 90s, when painting was dying and women weren’t given the wall space they deserved, it’s a joy to watch femme painters rise to the top of the pile creatively and financially. I am lucky enough to cherish works by Jenna Gribbon, Jocelyn Hobbie, Kyle Staver, Ellen Birkinblit and my dear friend Issy Wood. I am currently obsessed with Larissa De Jesus Negron, Petra Cortright, Lucy Bull, Robin F. Williams, Somaya Critchlow, Gina Beavers and Cynthia Talmadge. It’s a lifetime dream to have a massive Lisa Yuskavage to wake up to (though I do have a print she gave me for my 26th birthday when I had a Soul Cycle party and everyone was mad except Lisa, who kicked all our millenial asses on the bike.)
Jan 3, 2023
australian artist doing camera-less photography to create stunning works using roadkill, chemical reactions and natural elements on photosensitive surfaces. had so much trouble choosing which piece to showcase here bc not only is all her work beautiful but it makes me so, so emotional. if you ever have the pleasure of seeing her work in person, the titles read like poetry and are often written in graphite on the piece itself. for some reason, that’s really impactful to me. my favorite part is she gives the animals proper burials after they’ve served their purpose, giving them a sense of dignity. she often leaves traces of the animal’s blood in the work and the cortisol from their bodies sometimes has unique reactions to the photosensitive chemicals. the environment and it’s relationship to human infrastructure is a topic very near and dear to my heart so her artwork has left an immense impression on me. so thankful to live in a time where i can see stuff like this.
Oct 20, 2024
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the internet used to feel messy and infinite, full of weirdos and subcultures and criminals and inexplicable little nerd projects from anonymous friends you made on message boards. then everything became twitter and instagram, which was cool until everything irl started looking and feeling like twitter and instagram too, no matter where in the world you were, and there was nowhere else to go.
suddenly though (?) that era feels over, those sites are dying, along with google search, and I feel like the weird internet, the infinite internet, is at the beginning of a full comeback. I love that dizzy feeling that there’s so much much out there that I’ll never even get close to seeing it all.
maybe that’s why I like it here so much?
Jan 26, 2024
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I’m not sure I’d really recommend this because it’s more exhausting and permanently life-altering than almost any other thing you could imagine. But being a parent connects me to others in a way I had never experienced before having my own kid.
I love every child because I love my child. I believe every person is trying their best, is trying to be good, because I see that in him. I feel connected to the grief and suffering of other parents because I see how to love your child is necessarily to be on the knife’s edge of grief at all times. I have found parenting politically radicalizing because I cannot accept that my child deserves more than other children, that he gets to be safe and fed and surrounded by infinite possibility when most others are not.
Having a kid has not necessarily made me happier, but it has given me a deeper understanding of the human condition, and I am grateful for that.
Mar 16, 2024
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the best advice I give my students is this: life is not a video game where you win by collecting points, doing boring, meaningless, soul-crushing things for the majority of your career so that you can “spend” them one day on something you actually care about. the same social constraints that discipline young people into deferring gratification too easily trick them into deferring their passions and deferring their integrity, too. every day is equally your life. every bit of power and choice you have is an opportunity, right now, to live out your values. make art now. travel now. take the job that matters now. plant a garden now. do the right thing now. later is too late: spend your points.
Feb 13, 2024