Mary Diesel
@dieseldoodle.bsky.social
Explorer of creative expression, soul emancipator, answering an inner calling through clay, guitar strings, crochet, soup, & living room karaoke. Host for conversation among artists. Mother of adults, grandmother, great-grand aunt, sub teacher, pet sitter.
I have been in crowds the last few days. I suggest you take 15 minutes and read this to yourselves - out loud. Let the rhythm of Walt Whitman's voice become your own.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45470/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45470/...
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose, And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in m...
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June 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I have been in crowds the last few days. I suggest you take 15 minutes and read this to yourselves - out loud. Let the rhythm of Walt Whitman's voice become your own.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45470/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45470/...
All my doodles as of 5-25-25
May 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
All my doodles as of 5-25-25
Reposted by Mary Diesel
What the creative person and the mad person have in common is that they are not confined to a single self located in the ego, but their subjectivity extends across a spectrum of possibilities.~David Tacey, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨
May 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
What the creative person and the mad person have in common is that they are not confined to a single self located in the ego, but their subjectivity extends across a spectrum of possibilities.~David Tacey, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨
Springtime doodles
April 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Springtime doodles
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/13/m...
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism
On cruelty, kindness, and the song of life.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/13/m...
Reposted by Mary Diesel
"I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim"
- Virginia Woolf
Sculpture of the writer by Laury Dizengreme, Richmond, UK #WomensArt
- Virginia Woolf
Sculpture of the writer by Laury Dizengreme, Richmond, UK #WomensArt
April 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim"
- Virginia Woolf
Sculpture of the writer by Laury Dizengreme, Richmond, UK #WomensArt
- Virginia Woolf
Sculpture of the writer by Laury Dizengreme, Richmond, UK #WomensArt
Reposted by Mary Diesel
On the important role of ambiguity [this also applies to dream tending].
April 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the important role of ambiguity [this also applies to dream tending].
Another artist, another history to be remembered this month (and forever).
youtu.be/DZKYHeJYD7I
youtu.be/DZKYHeJYD7I
Carolee Schneemann: An Introduction
YouTube video by Barbican Centre
youtu.be
March 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Another artist, another history to be remembered this month (and forever).
youtu.be/DZKYHeJYD7I
youtu.be/DZKYHeJYD7I
Reposted by Mary Diesel
March 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Mary Diesel
Tokyo-based French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux, ‘I am here’ comprises the silhouettes of 18,000 women in different colours #WomensArt
March 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Tokyo-based French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux, ‘I am here’ comprises the silhouettes of 18,000 women in different colours #WomensArt
My artwork in the Women's History Month exhibit, "A Room of Her Own" at The Mad Hatter Gallery in Las Cruces, NM. It's a response to the 2024 presidential election in the US, and is called "Prayag: A Confluence of Tears Creates a Mighty River."
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My artwork in the Women's History Month exhibit, "A Room of Her Own" at The Mad Hatter Gallery in Las Cruces, NM. It's a response to the 2024 presidential election in the US, and is called "Prayag: A Confluence of Tears Creates a Mighty River."