— “just in case you change your mind” from boy! what a girl!, 1947. 🎞️🌹 this was one of the films in old hollywood with prominence of a black cast. it succeeded in celebrating our cultural roots & communal spirits plus having a pure, undiluted celebrations of black style.

Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.

esta tía se ha puesto a cantar OPERA en ALEMÁN mezclado con español e inglés con una orquesta y unos visuals que parece una película no hay ni un solo artista en el panorama nacional ni internacional que esté haciendo lo que está haciendo ella qué locura https://t.co/MmbExsIHuM

“Dreams & reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.” “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free.” RIP Assata Shakur

"I believe that this earth was meant for tenderness and not terror." // Assata Shakur (2007)

Another reason to love her 🙏🏽

This is what you gave up when you chose minimalism. You gave up drama. You gave up spirit. You gave up whimsy. And you plastered all of it flat with beige

French photographer Mathieu Stern accidentally discovered an old negative film from 120 years ago, and after printing it, it turned out to be a cat

Ancient Inca “whistling vessels” that could sing like animals, powered by nothing but air and water.

Now this is iconography.

In the Mood for Love, charcoal

Not just music—this is spiritual elevation. Alice Coltrane on harp is something else.

My new sculpture. Arike.

Ghibli trend…

The curator for the exhibition I’m currently in shared this image of these two kids getting hype over my artwork. Ngl, this made my day 💯

Photos by Hiroshi Hamaya taken of disappearing rural traditions in the cold Niigata prefecture, 1940-1945. Which later appeared in his 1956 book “Snow Land.” Scanned by me.

Sunrise, 1921, by Arthur Spear

Eve by Reynier Llanes

#wip #snakes #art #arte #study

He needs his scales