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Monday Musings — 11MAR24

Hi there. Here’s another Monday musings. Sorry I missed last week, I was sick all weekend and couldn’t put one together, but I’m back.

Some of you may have noticed I haven’t posted here, or on Instagram, or Facebook, about my graphic novel I’ve been working on for several years. Well I came to an impasse where I didn’t know how to continue it. I kinda script as I go, and ran out of steam at 25 pages. So I started work on something else that I didn’t script at all, and an actually almost finished , just need the last few pages figured out to stick the landing. (It’s a normal sized adventure comic, so not a “graphic novel.) Anyways, 25 pages was the end of the first act, but any ideas for the second act didn’t thrill me. I’ve finally figured out the way into the second act (basically a change in POV), and also the third and final(?) act. Now to flesh them out and get writing and drawing.

On to other stuff.

Who’s creating the unicorns popping up around Providence?

Their less than two-inch stature makes them easy to miss. But locals are finding the figurines seemingly everywhere.

Source: Who’s creating the unicorns popping up around Providence?

A little bit ago I did a post on libraries. Here’s another article about Mychal Threets a librarian who uses TikTok to promote how great libraries are. He’s a lot of fun.

His compassion radiates through the screen as he promotes positivity, belonging and “library joy.” In a country faced with a dire literacy crisis, coinciding with regressive and discriminatory book bans and attacks on third spaces from conservatives, Threets’ work to make reading more accessible is needed now more than ever.

And another artist to end the day with. Hazem Harb is a Palestinian artist working in the UAE.

Dystopia is not a Noun #14, 2023

Tabari Artspace modern and contemporary Middle Eastern Art Gallery in Dubai

Source: Emerging Artists Middle East | Tabari Artspace

Esoteric Forms Emerge from Wood in Aleph Geddis’s Enchanting Geometric Sculptures — Colossal

Carving out a niche where traditional woodworking, modernism, and esoterica meet, Aleph Geddis crafts intricate geometric sculptures from solid pieces of timber. Each abstract piece has a personality of its own, some elusively figurative while others appear like glyphs or ancient symbols transformed into three-dimensional shapes.

Source: Esoteric Forms Emerge from Wood in Aleph Geddis’s Enchanting Geometric Sculptures — Colossal

Olive Trees (Van Gogh series) – Wikipedia

 

Source: Olive Trees (Van Gogh series) – Wikipedia

Of Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Vincent wrote his brother Theo: “I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky,” calling this painting the daylight complement to the nocturnal, The Starry Night. His intention was to go beyond “the photographic and silly perfection of some painters” to an intensity born of color and linear rhythms.[29]

Within the painting, twisted green olive trees stand before the foothills of the Alps and underneath the sky with an “ectoplasmic” cloud. Later, when the pictures had dried, he sent both of them to Theo in Paris, noting: “The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind, as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect, are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts.”[29]

Fort Marion and Beyond: Native American Ledger Drawings, 1865-1900 – in collaboration with Donald Ellis Gallery – Exhibitions – David Nolan Gallery

Featuring works by Richard Artschwager, Chakaia Booker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Julia Fish, George Grosz, David Hartt, Mel Kendrick, Barry Le Va, Jonathan Meese, Rodrigo Moynihan, Ciprian Mureșan, Jim Nutt, Paulo Pasta, Christina Ramberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Eugen Schönebeck, Jorinde Voigt, and Ray Yoshida.

Source: Fort Marion and Beyond: Native American Ledger Drawings, 1865-1900 – in collaboration with Donald Ellis Gallery – Exhibitions – David Nolan Gallery

Via: https://hyperallergic.com/872801/a-shameful-us-history-told-through-ledger-drawings/