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morethanmud.bsky.social
House & Field Negro Quarterly
@morethanmud.bsky.social
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i run a tight shipwreck; coming here was your first mistake.

fuck ai. i block that shit on sight.

this be the art account of @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

art samples - https://upfromsumdirt.wordpress.com/visual-art/
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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · Dec 28
well. here im is.

"art anshit"
morethanmud.bsky.social
the kingdom of kush

youtu.be/CwaP1kyAqqo?...
Kingdom of Kush - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 4]
YouTube video by BBC News Africa
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February 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
felt.
comic panel of a little blonde-haired boy and his tiger friend (calvin and hobbes) hopping on and off of a log... the kid says "i don't believe in ethics any more."
February 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
please support writers and artists and musicians and all the people who are doing the actual labor to create interesting, intentional work
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn, 2017
comicstrip panel of 2 witches having conversation in a kitchen. the standing witch says "agatha, whats wrong?" the sitting witch (her head bowed down into her hands) replies "the doctor says i can't have kids". the standing witch replies, trying to comfort, "now, now - food allergies aren't the end of the world."
February 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
our secret overlords...
early 20th century newspaper article predicting that the last baby in the world would be born in the year 2012 and would look like a short, hairless monkey-mutant with a large head, large lashless eyes, and scalloped, fin-shaped ears. online text explaining the history of the previous image that reads: This image is a 1913 newspaper clipping featuring an illustration of what the "last baby" might look like in 2012, based on predictions made by Dr. J. H. Kellogg. The article suggests that a decline in birth rates and social changes, such as women entering the workforce and fewer people marrying, would lead to a "neuter type" of human and eventually, the end of the human race.
February 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000), The Workshop, 1978. Gouache on paper, 28.5 x 20 in.
painting of stylized blocky shaped brown men using various tools in a craftsmen's workshop
February 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
original Charles Schulz sketch of Snoopy as a vulture (c. 1965)
rough sketch of swirly lines indicating a small tree with snoopy standing atop it hunched over and glaring intently at the ground.
February 14, 2026 at 12:57 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
fuck ice.
illustration of a little girl with blonde hair based on the sailor moon cartoon. her middle finger is up and caption above and below her reads "F*CK I.C.E. ALL MY HOMIES HATE I.C.E.
February 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
biz markie
THE VAPORS

youtu.be/WpQjN7yQ_8c?...
February 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
"No More" by Jon Onye Lockard, 1972
painting of a pro-black liberation themed "aunt jemima" box of pancake mix. auntie wears a headwrap with the red, black, and green colors and a black fist bursts forth from inside the box.
February 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
Pudet means, "i feel ashamed" (aka, face-palm)

From John Bulwer’s Chirologia, or The Naturall Language of the Hand (1644), the English physician’s attempt to record the vocabulary contained in hand gestures and bodily motions.
illustration of a man's hand covering the mouth, nose, and eyes of his face.
February 12, 2026 at 5:29 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
various art samples, both real & imagined...
illustrated cover of my poetry collection, The Second Stop Is Jupiter: a brown-skinned, barefoot astronaut in a toga shakes hands with alien tentacles on a barren planet. bookcover for A is for Affrilachia. illustration is of a zither sitting across a lap. detail of a unpublished digital collage merging egyptian and european symbols with commercial advertising. unpublished digital illustration of a brown-skinned couple reaching out to clasp their hands together. handwritten text reads "sometimes (as a human) there are things you just know to be true."
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
im upfromsumdirt, mostly known for poetry these past 10 years, but been writing since '85... been an artist since birth: mostly comics & doodles i kept to myself. background in graphic design. combined my skills as a digital collagist w/ galleried work (last exhibited in 2011)

this is my art acct.
whatevertron.blacksky.app Ursula K. LeGume @whatevertron.blacksky.app · Sep 23
Let's do a #Blacksky #Artistvart to make Black artists on Bluesky and Blacksky more visible! I'll go first: I'm an editorial illustrator of 11+ years, and on here you can call me Whatevertron! DM for contact details if interested!
A Black queer they/them standing with their face in profile, with a natural hairstyle adorned with a raspberry-colored beret and a gold cala lily hat pin. They wear red, white, black and gold adinkra wax print, with a pearl necklace and a thing gold chain with a single pomegranate charm. A digital illustration of a Black teacher passing a glowing book of education to a white teacher, who is dutifully saluting a darkened panel of judges, while both of them stand in front of watching and inspired school children. A digital portrait of a Black man holding a prison tablet close, as it is the only source of light, as he longingly looks down at the photos of his loved ones that he can no longer see in person. A digital illustration of a Black mother protecting her daughter from snakelike white hands with bloodied red fingernails that seek to separate them. They're inside of their wood-paneled home, and while the mother's appearance is tattered, her daughter's care is immaculate.
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
Cattelena of Almondsbury, England who passed in 1625
illustration of a black-skinned woman wearing a lacy head scarf and other 17th century styled clothing.
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
more Thomas Hart Benton
Portrait of a Musician
painting of a black man with short afro and wearing a suit & tie with dark blue jacket plays an upright bass/fiddle.
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums
www.france24.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
Thomas Hart Benton

Aaron
painting of a black man wearing a slightly oversized, shabby gray coat. he has a short gray afro, a large bushy gray mustache, and both of his hands hold the orangish-brown handle of a broomstick or cane.
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Aaron, 1941 (lithograph)
gray-scaled print of an elderly man with presumably black facial features, thick short wavy hair with indented parts, a long handlebar mustache, and thick wrinkled grooves in his forehead.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
is this cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto?!?! my urge is to say "fuck the rich" but those arent extremely expensive ingredients... still, i imagine it tastes like ass. 😑

and, yes, as always: fuck the rich!
photo of what looks like elongated slices of cantaloupe wrapped in paper-thin slices of marbled meat.
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
that i caint get my hands on this greatly angers me...

Zhu Yingchun, The Language of Bugs, 2017
photo of a tan-colored book with various unreadable glyphs & symbols on the cover with chinese writing that states this is a book of letters created by tracing the patterns of various bugs walking across paper. or something like that. internal view of the pages with a variety of meaningless, bug-created glyphs.
February 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
so... a ghost in the shell series is coming in july, you say?

...innnteresting.

youtu.be/rp0pS_plO6k?...
The New Ghost in the Shell Anime Looks INCREDIBLE.
YouTube video by a tall white fountain played
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February 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
Billy Graham...

...no. not that one. 😑

Marvel Comic's 1st Black illustrator.
BILLY GRAHAM: Marvel's First Black Artist
Read full essay transcript: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/chaos-ensues-comic-artist-billy-graham Covering the artist, actor, writer, stuntman, Bill...
youtu.be
March 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM
morethanmud.bsky.social
one of my pet desires is to illustrate a graphic novel version of My Life In the Bush of Ghosts; ive sketched concept art but it has ssSUCKEDdd... Lam's art meshes extremely well with Tutuola's classic.
morethanmud.bsky.social House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 8d
have you read My Life In the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola? his surreal descriptions of the spirit world perfectly reflects Lam's work.
February 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Saw this at "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now".

Truly outstanding piece by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member Derek Fordjour from show focusing on how Black artists have referenced Egypt (and Ancient Nubia) to form an African identity.
#BlackSky
Closeup of sharp crease on pantleg of painting. More details in alt-text of quoted post. Board Meeting (Brotherhood Smoke), 2021 Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, foil, glitter, and oil pastel on newspaper mounted on canvas by DEREK FORDJOUR (American, born 1974)
March 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM