Day 17 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 are two bearded men facing each other. Are they lovers? Close friends? Mortal enemies? Who knows… ⚡️
Malú Colorín (she/her)
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🌈 Natural dyer at https://talu.earth 🐏 Co-founder of https://fibreshedireland.ie Systems thinker Regenerative textiles & eco-socialism 26+6=1 ✊🏽 Mexican in Ireland, Lobo’s human, coffee lover & curiousity fiend!✨ Loves to travel 🎒
Ok, I’ve missed the past 4 days of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so today I made up for them all by making a drawing that encompasses all those shapes alongside today’s!
Day 11 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a pink-haired woman blowing a party horn 🥳 I really struggled with the shape! But seriously enjoyed colouring in the hair. Hair has always been my favourite part of a drawing, ever since I was a wee pre-teen making Harry Potter fanart.
Day 10 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is the giant face of a fantastical reptile! A dragon, perhaps? 🐉
I missed yesterday’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so today I made a drawing that incorporates the shapes of both day 8 and day 9! An underwater scene 🐠🪨
Day 6 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a wee bunny rabbit wearing oversized pijamas and a woolly hat 🐰 I think I immediately gave the bunny pijamas because I used to have Peter Rabbit bedsheets as a child and I LOVED them! 🥰
It's just not the #LateLateToyShow if a 9 year old doesn't sing with the voice of a 94 year old pub singer who looks like they're made out of turf.
✨ Flax zines/posters! ✨ The last pieces I want to show you from the InterWOVEN exhibition are this series of zines/posters. Each of them represents relationships, knowledge, and invitations related to the history and resurgence of flax in Ireland.
Day 4 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a pair of young friends in ushankas having a lively chat on a snowy day ❄️ It was fun to do the designs on their woolly jumpers! And lovely to draw while sipping on my capuccino at my favourite local coffee shop ☕️✏️
Day 3 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is an angry geometric man 🤷🏽♀️ I had to finish colouring the forehead using my left hand, because my tennis elbow has flared up these days and colouring becomes painful 😫 There may be more left-handed drawings in the coming days.
Another piece I had the privilege to make for and exhibit at the ‘InterWOVEN’ group show. This is made of wild clay from the Poulaphouca reservoir and flax from my garden and from Mallon Linen farm. It shows the interconnected relationship us humans have with the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum 🩵
Being pulled gently, but firmly
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Day 2 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025: a sort of Little My wearing a ridiculously regal headdress 😂🫶🏽 I’m thinking I’ll make a little hand-bound book with all of these at the end of advent! ✨
My friend Ione invited me to participate in @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so here’s my interpretation of the first shape! 🌼 Love a fun excuse to do a bit of quick illustration, especially in December, as I start to wind down after the flurry of summer and autumn 😌
@ingoldsbyben.bsky.social’s auntie celebrated a big birthday on Saturday, and she asked us to gift her a Mexican recipe 🌮
Now that the ‘InterWOVEN’ exhibition has finished, here’s a walkthrough of one of the pieces I had on display. This is a very personal piece that I think of as a self-portrait of sorts. It will surely keep changing and evolving if and when it’s shown again ✨ youtu.be/x38jPf3RUtc?...
I'm an ecosystem made up of all the places and beings that have nourished me
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“Ireland’s proud history of better-things-aren’t-possible centrism” cracked me up 😂 www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...
Surrealing in the Years: Sorry Simon, maybe Ireland doesn't want to be a 'centrist' country
Hey, I didn’t make the rules.
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY SCRATCH DISKS ARE FULL?!? I have 50GB free space and I’m trying to open a 1GB file. I cannot, #Adobe. I don’t even use all the new AI features that make the apps unnecessarily heavy. Will definitely be cancelling my Cloud subscription afted this job.
🇮🇪 new substack looking at flagmania in ireland and why it's complete hypocrisy for the government to condemn this, while simultaneously choosing to spend €5 million on a deportation contract that exists solely for optics
Fear, flags and flights
Tricolours aren't the only expression of hostility in Ireland
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Let’s play a little game! 🎉 As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make. In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵
Ever wonder… 🤨 Is that dye plant? 🎨 What colour does it make? 🌺 Will this brightly-coloured flower dye my shirt that colour? 🍃 Why is it so hard to get green? I’ll be answering that+ more next Monday 15 Sept @ 6:30pm (Irish time) on Zoom! It’s FREE, just register guides.talu.earth/what-colour
2023 tweet; still valid. Global North academics repeat after me: Since I did not raise objections to the genocide, I shall not teach courses on decolonisation, decoloniality, post-genocide literatures from Palestine or other cognate ‘radical’ courses that advance my career & help me procure grants.
One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
Join us for a weekend celebration of flax! 🌾🩵 🗓️ Sat 30 – Sun 31 Aug ( 📍 An Creagán & Mallon Linen, Tyrone 🚌 Subsidised transport to and from Dublin (with stops en route) & on-site accommodation available! 🥪 Meals included 🎟️ fibreshedireland.ie/the-flax-mei... ___________ #spéirghorm #spéirgorm
Petition to make the seagull pause a regular of the @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social podcast. I laughed so hard when he gawked! 😂
a white seagull with a yellow beak is sitting on a fence .
ALT: a white seagull with a yellow beak is sitting on a fence .
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Thanks to Go Leor magazine for featuring me in their 2nd issue, alongside Esther O’Kelly and Judith Logan 🙌🏽✨ Go Leor is the latest magazine covering the arts, creativity and therapy throughout #Ireland. In this issue, you’ll find… (a thread 🧵) go-leor.co.uk —————- #spéirghorm #spéirgorm
