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Rosalind Ahmed

@21rosa.bsky.social

Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated

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Rosalind Ahmed@21rosa.bsky.social · 2h ago

In Ireland, Gleaning Sunday/Domhnach Deascán was the first Sunday after 15 August, when leftover crops were gathered. This is a practical operation but also a ritual one with ancient roots. The Old Testament stated gleanings were to be gathered by the poor & the dispossessed 🧵 1/2 #WyrdWednesday

🎨 'Gleaning' Arthur Hughes (1832–1915). A dark haired woman gathers overlooked crops in a harvest field studded with scarlet poppies
Rosalind Ahmed@21rosa.bsky.social · 4d ago

Blodeuwedd Hours too soon a barn owl broke from woodshadow. Her white face rose out of darkness in a buttercup field. Colourless and soundless, feathers cream as meadowsweet and oakflowers... Her night lament beyond conversation, the owl follows her shadow like a cross over the fields #BookWormSat

✍🏻 Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008-2016. In ancient Welsh myth, Blodeuwedd was, much like Eve, created by magic for the satisfaction of a man. However, her heart, desire and will were bent towards another. For this sin of freeing herself from something imposed upon her, the maiden made from flowers is turned into an owl, a night haunter deprived of human company but returned to her element of the more than human 🎨 'Blodeuwedd; Flower Face' Christopher Williams (1974)
Jess Taylor@loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'm going to bookend #ArtRepostJuly with the piece I started it with, because it is indeed one of my faves and feels like the most ambitious and honest expression of my current creative adventures.... #ArtSky #Procreate #Illustration #TeamMoth #SciArt

An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a group of 23 moths of different colourful species flying and perching around a lit light bulb, surrounded by foliage. The foliage and light bulb are all drawn in black, in the top left is a section of trailing ivy which leads to two thin branches, on of which has a Kentish Glory moth clinging to it. The light bulb is hanging in the centre of the image from a woven single light cord and the edison style bulbs filament is glowing. In the bottom right corner of the image is a large leaf with an equally large female emperor moth perched on it, just above this is a series of tall grasses, one of which has a scarlet tiger moth clinging to it. There is also a small clump of grass in the bottom left corner of the image which very slightly obscure a large emerald moth beneath. The other moths include a mint moth, peppered moth, ethmia pusiela, scarce forester moth, barred hook-tip moth, ruby tiger moth, brimstone moth, mother shipton moth, blood-vein moth, cinnabar moth, schreckensteinia festaliella, large fruit tree tortix moth, elephant hawk moth, buff ermine, red underwing moth, hummingbird hawk moth, hypercallia citrinilis, chrysoclistra linnella and the herald moth. All of these are either perched facing or flying around the light bulb.
Helen Whistberry@whistberry.bsky.social · last mo.

Calling all artists! We don't reshare our older stuff enough, so here's an excuse to do so I'll be busy in July drawing things I can't share publicly just yet, so I'm gonna repost some of my faves following these approximate themes (interpreted broadly!) Join me? #art #ArtChallenge #ArtRepostJuly

#ArtRepostJuly Casual art challenge to repost your art! Use the list for inspiration. Interpret as you will! Alt text: yes, please. AI: no, thank you. 1 light 2 dark 3 red 4 wing 5 wet 6 dry 7 eerie 8 lovely 9 orange 10 above 11 below 12 pattern 13 colorful 14 bone 15 green 16 joy 17 melancholy 18 invertebrate 19 eye 20 whimsical 21 blue 22 small 23 large 24 plant 25 surreal 26 realistic 27 purple 28 animal 29 environment 30 black and white 31 favorite List by Helen Whistberry
Rosalind Ahmed@21rosa.bsky.social · last wk.

On encountering the horned god Pan his woodland worshippers are awestruck: “Rat,” he [Mole] found breath to whisper, shaking. “Are you afraid?” “Afraid?” murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. “Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet-and yet-O, Mole, I am afraid!” #WyrdWednesday

Released on Christmas Day 1995, this animated version of the 'Wind in the Willows' includes a voice cast Michael Palin as Ratty, Alan Bennett as Mole, Michael Gambon as Badger, Rik Mayall as Mr. Toad and Vanessa Redgrave as the narratorBildBild🎨 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' Arthur Rackham
Rosalind Ahmed@21rosa.bsky.social · last wk.

"There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns" Mistress Page claims Herne was once human, while others contend he was ever the god Cernunnos #WyrdWednesday

✍🏻'The Merry Wives Of Windsor' 📸 Stills from 'Robin of Sherwood' an HTV series & Saturday early evening Gen X classic created by Richard Carpenter for Goldcrest FilmsBildDiscovered in Denmark, this is a possible depiction of the horned god Cernunnos on the Gundestrup Cauldron (c.100BCE)
Rod Evans@ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · last wk.

Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0

Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.

Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.

goodlawproject.org

phoenixrising@mmcarthur.bsky.social · last wk.

Betye Saar, the LA–based artist whose assemblages tackled the brutality of racism, anti-Blackness, and the stereotypes they engender, died in her sleep Sunday morning, July 26, Robert Projects gallery announced. She was 99 years old - just 4 days shy of turning 100 July 30. More in the alt text 👇

Across 7 decades, Saar created a body of work that used a wide variety of materials - often found objects like furniture, statuettes, feathers, and more - and arranged them in such a way that helped give them new meaning, all the while elucidating the pervasiveness of racism in the US. https://www.artnews.com/?fbclid=IwT01FWATVeaxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4D7Wn9U9nkiIkCqPogBd54CxSM0PyjHUyC1eGbxvKYyAK9qp2fa9UxyFM66w_aem_CgpSaBIQvc0K48Io0z3kxw
Rosalind Ahmed@21rosa.bsky.social · last wk.

Derwentwater at dusk on Saturday. Unusually free of folk; any sound was mainly waters lapping and owls calling #WeekDforDark #AlphabetChallenge #Cumbria

A trio of yellow lights offset in the darkness over the misty fells, blue lake and neat row of boats.
🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰@sheena-mck.bsky.social · last wk.

Attention Alphabetters! This is your reminder that Mon 27 Jul is the start of Week D and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Dark. Dark in any sense of the word- dark hair, dark eyes, dark humour, dark arts, dark places, or just night shots. You get to be creative😊 Use the # below and have fun!

South Downs National Park@southdownsnp.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you know your heathers? 🤔 Three types of heather can be found growing on the heaths: bell, cross-leaved and ling (left to right). Ling and bell heather are more common across the heathland, with ling once used to make traditional sweeping brooms. 📸: Beth Nicholls

Hand holding three slender heather stems to show close-up details of their tubular pink and purple flowers and tiny needle-like leaves.
phoenixrising@mmcarthur.bsky.social · last wk.

Remembering the great haunting and transgressive outsider photographer Diane Arbus (née Diane Nemerov) died otd 55 years ago. Her stark portraits of societal outsiders continue to fascinate and disturb. image : Woman with eyeliner, NYC 📸 : Diane Arbus, 1964 More description in the alt text 👇

Medium: Gelatin silver print (black-and-white photography). Subject: A close-up portrait of a woman featuring pronounced, dark application of eyeliner. Style: Employs Arbus's signature direct, unblinking flash and confrontational framing style. Themes: Explores identity, personal style, vulnerability, and the quiet psychological tension of everyday people in New York City.
Melissa Good Piggy 🐽 🇺🇦🌻🤍@meltart.bsky.social · last wk.

When an entire arena boos you for telling the truth, you quickly learn who has courage. Kris Kristofferson walking onto that stage and standing beside Sinéad as the insults rained down remains one of the most powerful acts of human decency I’ve ever seen. Three years resting in peace 🙌🏼🤍🙌🏼

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Mike Dickison@adzebill.bsky.social · last wk.

At a recent archaeology conference I was shocked to see AI-generated reconstructions of Māori sites—these are racist tools trained on old northern -hemisphere assumptions. Maybe work with an artist, or learn to draw? theconversation.com/historical-i...

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research

Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

theconversation.com

Rosalind Ahmed@21rosa.bsky.social · last wk.

Wildlife and Welsh landscapes were at the heart of Delia Portsmouth's work. A self taught artist, she was born in Cheshire c. 1916. Let's celebrate Delia and #OwlishMonday with two of her oil paintings from 1970, the Long-eared Owl and the Tawny Owl

A wintry night rendered in dark blue and white. The colours are reflected in the sprinkles of snow on the fir tree on which the grey-white owl is perchedA summery scene with the brown owl perched in a maple tree in full bloom