M. Cromwell 🌹
@marandart.bsky.social
Independent Artist & Author. Zen Animal. 420. Tending 5 acres of Squaxin land, Turtle Island. KILL CAPITALISM. 35 • 🏳️🌈 agender: they/she/he 🏳️⚧️ • Gallery & Shop: www.marandart.com
> capitalism > guys can own stuff, like land and cattle > they graze their cattle on their land and sell the cattle > a ton of guys do this > this is not how grasslands function: grass dies, erosion time > carbon cycle in grassland stalled AF > now your cattle ranch is a desert, sorry not sorry
Five new (well, used) saw blades means five new birds. Here's a preview of the guys I just drafted on blades.
"Wing Span" 12"x18" Acrylic, conte crayon, colored pencil, paint pen on reclaimed wood Are they spreading their wings to dry, or flicking water off their hands? And also: what's the difference? A slightly different arrangement of particles is all that separates us from our animal kin.
My copy of @marandart.bsky.social 's bound to Ashes came in the mail today. I'm super excited to read it :3
Throwback to 2019 when I briefly kept quail. The babies were the best part.
I wish compassion and peace for all beings. Even the ones that are so frustrating and wrong and foolish. Maybe especially them.
"Wing Span" 12"x18" Acrylic, conte crayon, colored pencil, paint pen on reclaimed wood Are they spreading their wings to dry, or flicking water off their hands? And also: what's the difference? A slightly different arrangement of particles is all that separates us from our animal kin.
Ancient little guys of the day! These prehistoric baby bottles in the shape of little creatures were found were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves in Vösendorf (Austria). Actually, a study was conducted on these bottles around 2019 and they found traces of ruminant milk!
At long last, my much anticipated art newsletter post on sci-fi frogs is here! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/frogs/ Artists credits: Terry Oakes, Dave Trampier, Hajime Sorayama, and Eddie Jones.
Update on seahorse meditation. Apparently, seahorses wake up and do a ritual dance with their partners with whom they mate for life. So wake up and start the day right by being grateful for the ones you love! Adorable, no notes, 10/10, be like seahorse
Sure, insight timer, give me the seahorse meditation, fuck me up
I did not do as much Art Fight this year as I hoped to, but I'm not dissatisfied. We just got hella busy with important things all of a sudden. Life happens, and there's always next year. Hope everyone had a fun time!
Identity is a pyramid scheme tailored to our consumer preferences by Big Mind incorporated . . .
Sure, insight timer, give me the seahorse meditation, fuck me up
Prepping wild clay, cleaning the pantry, sweeping, dishes, reorganizing collage material for more room in the studio, journaling, boiling eggs... I get a lot done when I let myself do whatever! It seems like the more I try to channel a "you should do This" I just want to do This less and less.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
to try and convince somebody that the observable, material, replicatable world is false and that they are the only arbiter of truth is to play directly into the fascist playbook. to insinuate that scientists want to or are trying to hide something from you is to become blinded by idealistic fervor
Head's up, I'll be taking a handful of commissions sometime in August. 👀
Between being on the phone for two hours, first thing in the morning, with food stamps, and freeing a stuck chicken from stabbing brambles, and Mothra's needle claws in my lap... I'm feeling very poked and prodded today.
I dunno who needs to hear this but Blick is having a super killer liquidation sale on canvases and wood panels. www.dickblick.com/categories/m...
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