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Liz Ruest

@lizruest.com

Artist, editor, reader. https://lizruest.com

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she of the dark mossy lands@sadcoreandpancakes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me, a practicing artist: I am one of the unruly bunch of abstract nonconformists and you can't tell me what to do. Me, organizer of artist projects: Fucking hell I just need titles and finished pieces by this date not everything is artistic performance why is this so hard thankyouverymuch.

Hrag Vartanian@hrag.bsky.social · 3w ago

Critic Nereya Otieno spoke to Betty Saar before her death for @hyperallergic.com “I asked how she creates her works; she said she sees assemblage & her method of working as ‘layering & building energies—you just have to pay attention to how you put things together. They’ll tell you if they fit.’”

How Betye Saar Came to Be

“You just have to pay attention to how you put things together,” the artist told Hyperallergic shortly before her death. “They’ll tell you if they fit.

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Sharon Arnold@sharonarnold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

so after a long period of fallow time, I'm very excited to have a new project to share! I'm really going back to my roots with this one, to send folks a collection of curated items in the mail but this time, it's my own work! writing and ephemera, starting in August! www.patreon.com/sharonarnold...

Announcing a new Patreon project from Sharon Arnold and Dimensions Variable! | Sharon Arnold

Hello friends! It has been a very long time and I hope you're well, enjoying the fruits of summer, long golden days, and hopefully a bit o

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Lioness@lionesss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Off to buy a notebook in which to write. Perhaps *now* some of that foreign language will finally sink in. bsky.app/profile/drdr...

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Handwriting to process learning yields much better results than typewriting. Audrey van der Meer spent 20 years to prove it and you can read all about it here. Especially in the age of AI and social media, this is just an extra incentive to bar screens from the class room. tinyurl.com/bdhrdxww

Big Art Thread@bigartthread.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Mixed media works from the "Which Way the Wind Blows" series by Dutch artist Hagar Vardimon, 2020s, in which the artist embroidered colorful thread directly onto found photographs in an exploration of memory and presence.

Vintage color photograph (c. 1950s-60s) depicting a smiling white woman wearing a yellow bathing suit and sitting on a towel in a field of dry brown grass, with a streetlight pole in the distance. Her form is obscured by horizontal lines of colorful thread.Vintage color photograph (c. 1950s-60s) depicting a smiling white woman wearing a blue shorts and a white top, leaning against a dark blue car on a suburban street. Her form is obscured by horizontal lines of colorful thread.Vintage color photograph (c. 1960s-70s) depicting a white-haired woman wearing a yellow coat, standing in a parking lot with her arms up and head thrown back in laughter. Her form is obscured by horizontal lines of colorful thread.Vintage color photograph (c. 1950s-70s) depicting a white child crouching down on a green lawn next to a large tank toy. His form is obscured by horizontal lines of colorful thread.