(Feel free to delete this text bit) So I wanted to explain why I “passed” so well, in a way people might actually stop and read. By that I mean the way a lot of asexuals may find people interpreting their aestetic attraction as sexual - even the asexual themselves! this is just my story, of course, but I’m hoping some people can relate.
Also, I felt like trying out a comic page format. Please don’t ever show my art teacher this, my art’s not exactly at its best here! But I get the point across, I hope. Yes. That is actually what I looked like two years ago. Scary, huh?
This gorgeous wooden bike, created using old-timey steam-bending technology, will definitely turn some heads.
And at $70,000, it had better.
Excerpt from an interview with Janine Antoni.
As a child in the Bahamas, I heard pirate stories that were more reality than fantasy. The islands were subject to bootlegging, blockade running, illegal immigration and drug trafficking. My brother told me stories about Anne Bonnet, an Irish-American woman who masqueraded as a male pirate in the Caribbean during the 18th century. One of the ways Bonnet deflected suspicion about her double identity was by using a ceramic apparatus that enabled her to urinate standing up.
As a young girl, I was fascinated with the idea of Anne Bonnet’s device. Recently, I encountered commercially made objects designed exactly for this purpose that brought back this memory. I couldn’t resist the complex implications of such an object. Like Anne Bonnet, I, too, wanted to live out the fantasy triggered by the use of this object. My fantasy, like most, took me to an unlikely place. Such is the unexpected journey of the unconscious.So here’s the leap: What if the apparatus for peeing while standing up was a gargoyle? And what if I actually cast this apparatus as a sculpture and used it to pee off of a landmark building in New York City? Gargoyles fascinate me, not only as hellish creatures but because they signify the mythical, shadow side of our psyche. There’s no consensus on the source of their grotesque configuration. They are functional, though, designed to disguise a funneling system that reroutes rainwater away from a building. I chose to sculpt a griffin gargoyle, which is a hybrid—a mythical composite of different animals. It occurred to me that to use my invented apparatus was to make myself into a hybrid, because as a woman my anatomy doesn’t enable me to pee standing up.
(via Artnews.org: Janine Antoni at Luhring Augustine New York)
“[These] two rectangular tiles [are] painted in coloured slip with partially dressed dancers associated with the harem, preparing for a bath. They were probably made in Isfahan for a Safavid palace or bathhouse. Bathhouses, an important focal point of daily life, were traditionally decorated with luxurious glazed tiles lining the pools and tile panels ornamenting the walls.
Each figure holds a spouted pouring vessel in their hands, which have been coloured orange-red with henna. A paste of powdered henna was applied or painted in designs on hands and often feet and left on overnight to producee a stain, which was highly admired. Dark almost black henna, suggests the evidence of wealth, as it was produced using costly essential perfumes and oil, whereas a paler colour indicates that water was used a binder. That both hands are stained is further evidence of an elite lifestyle indicating that a skilled henna artist has applied the stain.”
Some of my work from the last 4 months or so.
Really great work. Really great messages. Your voice is so refreshing! You’ve got my support. :-)
ça c’est le pur style!!! J’adore!
Arabic is beautiful. hgkjfdgshg
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Moss Shower Mat
This bathroom mat is made of imputrescible foam called plastazote. Each cell contains a piece of moss. The mat contains a total of 70 pieces of ball, island and forest moss. The humidity of the bathroom and the drops flowing from the body water the mosses.
This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. Situated on a rocky hillside on the west coast of Sweden, the building overlooks an inlet from the sea. The back of the double-curved structure is wrapped in a skin of rough wooden shingles, while the front is clad in wooden slats with gaps to let natural light inside.
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Nabhan Abdullatif
(Source: mitchellsnyder)
