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Ig: @murasaki.verso

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)

Remember if you can live through February you'll live another year 💜

given that it's both black history month and Transgender Hell Era i recommend people go read about frances thompson, the first black trans woman to testify before Congress. her bravery and defiance in the fact of targeted government oppression is so admirable, as is the love from her community. she transitioned while enslaved and lived her entire life as a woman, more or less openly trans. she was outed and jailed by police who had always been aware she was trans entirely because her testimony of being raped by anti-black rioters was inconvenient for Congress and they needed an excuse to ignore her. and yet she never wavered in her conviction of her womanhood. when a reporter questioned her on why she wore dresses, she told him "none of your damn business." she died young but she was cared for by her community to the end. it's both an interesting look at how people historically engaged with trans people (even the West has a more complicated relationship with gender & sex than transphobes want to admit) and like. idk. her going through everything she went through and still being like fuck you. i know exactly what you are doing and it's bullshit. i am what i've always been and you are cowards relying on hatred to maintain power. and no matter what i'm not legitimizing your bullshit. i love you frances thompson

A few more joyful things from 1st and 2nd days of marriage equality in Thailand 💗❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Photos of happy couples:

Jan Dibbets - Big Comet Sea Sky Sea 3˚ – 60˚

Individually framed colour photographs, overall 424 × 678 cm, 1973

Alison Friend

Listen/purchase: On by AhMerAhSu

Limamu Mbaye by Jack Chipper for Numéro Netherlands January 2025

Listen/purchase: All The Beauty In This Whole Life by Brother Ali

Abdulhalim Radwi (Saudi, 1939-2006), Untitled, 1984. Oil on canvas, 48 x 35 ¾ in.

In 1998, I found myself in Aparan, a large town an hour’s drive from Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. A local dance troupe was performing that evening, in the open air, with most of the suburb in attendance. The old, the young, everyone was present, sitting hunched on stools or cross-legged on the floor, transfixed. In the background, small mountains and jagged cliffs framed the scene.

As soon as I took my first shot, an old man approached me. Tears streamed down his face. He told me that his son had died. That he had been electrocuted, that he was his pride and joy, and that I looked just like him. He broke into sobs and moved towards me with outstretched arms. His name was Ishran.

I asked if he would dance for me, and he began dancing. The troupe paused and perched on an outcrop of rocks in the background. It was beautiful, not because the man is beautiful, but because he represents something deep inside the collective consciousness of the Armenian community: a celebratory resilience in the face of overwhelming loss.

Antoine Agoudjian, “An Armenian man dances for his lost son”

Source

Thinking about that one Wendy Carlos video where she's boymoding and has the big fake glued on sideburns and the suit, but with beautifully shaped eyebrows and that t-girl voice, and shes completely and utterly unconvincing trying to pass as a man, but also shes just so excitedly infodumping about moog synthesizers and batting her eyelashes its hard not to fall in love with her.

Li Wenwen, knowing she has secured the Gold medal, carries her coach onto the stage to celebrate instead of attempting her final lift.

Inuit graphic artist, Shuvinai Ashoona working at Cape Dorset Co-op, 2008 & Kinngait Studios, 2006, respectively.

Georges Nasser’s ‘Where to?’//‘إلى أين؟’

(Lebanon, 1957)

Mezquitas de Puerto Rico is an ongoing collaboration between Alia Farid and Jesús "Bubu" Negrón on the representation of Islam in the Caribbean. Renderings/depictions have so far resulted in a series of prayer rugs of mosques in the Puerto Rican towns of Hatillo, Vega Alta, Fajardo, Rio Piedras, and Ponce, and postcards of the same places. For the carpet-kilims series, the mosques were photographed in the spring of 2013 and later interpreted by weavers from Mashhad, Iran.

Source: Galerie Imane Farès (pictures)

jesusbubunegron.com (description)

John Caple (British, born 1966) Wild Horse, Full Moon, 2015 Acrylic on canvas

Félix Vallotton (Switzerland, 1865-1925)

Die Risle bei Berville

Aino-Maija Metsola ( b.1983 Finland) ‘Ahdinparta (Cladophora)’ 2019

watercolour, gouache and ink on paper

Lynette Yiadom Boakye, A Concentration, 2018. Oil on linen. 79 × 98 ½ × 1 ½ in. 

Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. 

jacques gotko, "in spite of everything," 1942, watercolor and ink on paper. gotko created art throughout his years of imprisonment at the compiègne and drancy camps. he died soon after arriving at auschwitz in july 1943. from ghetto fighters' house museum:

This work commemorates the anniversary of being interned in the [Compiègne] camp. The inmates listed were interned on 21 May 1941 in the "Billet Vert" operation, being summoned to a Parisian police station and then sent to Compiègne. The work contains the signatures of various inmates and the numbers given to them by the camp: Isis Kischka 787 122; A. Leon 2203; Zladin 1381; Goychman 356; Curfist 1379; Rivinof 797; S. Max 388; Berliner 369; S. Schleifer 163; A. Berline 944; K. Kirschenstein 1152; Herzberg 1061.

amalie seckbach, works on paper made at the theresienstadt ghetto, dating from 1943 to 1944, the year that she would die there

rop van mierlo, illustrations for wild animals, 2010

Sento, 1986 illustration from the seventh issue of TBO. The magazine was an attempt to reboot the seminal children's comics magazine of the same name* for a more mature audience during the 80s boom.

*TBO is also the origin of the Spanish word for comics: Tebeos. (A phoneticisation à la Hergé being the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG)

panels from Manuel by Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester, 1985

Ben Kimura

Recent drawings

Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011) [Japan] ~ ‘Untitled’, 1968. Watercolour on postcard (14.5 × 9.5 cm).