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humachine.bsky.social
A Humaquine
@humachine.bsky.social
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Vive la resistance! Fight Fascism!!

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#wearenotgoingback - none of us
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Land of the 4-Legged Creatures
Tierra de los Cuadrúpedos
Oil on Canvas - description in the Alt Txt #art #artist #surrealism #oilpainting
Land of the 4 Legged Creatures: A verticle triptych of 3 horizontal 12x16” canvases. Oil on canvas. Perhaps my most surreal painting. A large plant-like figure in green/brown/rust tones, with what might be stylized wings or leaves in green pink and yellow on its back, and 4 long spindly legs, steps lightly on the ground which is a yellow mound, upon which, in the space between the plant-like creature’s legs, are 2 additional, smaller figures: a yellow dog-like creature outlined in orange facing toward the body of the plant-like figure, and a hot pink woman doing a backbend, so her 2 hands and 2 feet are touching the ground, her head facing the opposite direction of the dog-like creature’s head. The sky, which is most of the background, is pale blue.
August 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Humachine (La Humaquina)
from the series Animal on Earth oil on canvas - 20x16”
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#art #abstractart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #narrativeabstraction #thefutureisnow
#animalonearth
#posthuman
#human
Oil on canvas 2003 painting, titled Humachine, the 5th in a 5 piece painting series, Animal on Earth. Painting from my own detailed pencil drawing. Abstract figures set in an abstract landscape telling a story. Humachine is a leggy figurative machine with a penis and a cross in its body and sort of helicopter like blades. Maybe an IVF allegory? Skin tones toward peachy red for the body set on a sky blue background
April 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Vive la resistance! Fight Fascism! Handwritten in black pen on white paper with a smudge of red paint hastily photographed with the shadow of the cell phone reflected on the white page
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The Ugliest Americans
March 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This t-shirt is circa 2010 in response to the Citizens United decision.
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This piece belongs to a series called Truisms that can be viewed in the Concepts section of my website. The series contemplates the disintegration of the meaning of the word TRUTH.
Title: Truism #4 - ANTI TRUTH 2025
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#art #wordart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #resistfascism
Three lines of words painted on a horizontal canvas. Colors mimic nazi colors: background is black, the letters are red with white edges. Line 1: ANTI SOCIAL Line 2: ANTI TRUTH Line 3 is written upside down and backwards. Line 3: TRUTH SOCIAL
March 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I painted the vertical piece in 2008 and this smaller horizontal version in 2006, both have lots of wax.
March 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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AFTER THE WAR
oil and wax on canvas 2006 and 2008

Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart wrote her other prose novella, The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, in 1946.
The painting is the first chapter’s title and opening lines.
#wordart #oilpaint #prose #poetry @bsky.art #art
Vertical painting with a background of vertically oriented rectangles painted in hand mixed tones of gray, over which is painted in large, thin-lined capital letters the words of Elizabeth Smart: AFTER THE WAR Wandering in the wastes of Kensington the mean made faces pass like derelict paper bags. The neat ruins of the war lie like a boring scar whose history is all of the repetitive future and all that memory can retain. E. Smart’s more well-known prose novella is By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, 1945
March 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: Everywhere is war Until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation: Everywhere is war Until the color of a human’s skin is of no more significance than the color of their eyes: Everywhere is war Until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race: Everywhere is war Until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained. But Marley’s song is even more than its inspired retelling of Selassie’s brilliant words. The second half of the song makes War a song of peace. We don’t need no more troubles What we need is love To guide and protect us all If you’re up look down from above Help the weak if you are strong We don’t need no trouble What we need is love I say speak happiness We’re sad enough without your woes C’mon and speak of love We’re sad enough without your foes Hey, we don’t need no troubles What we need is love sweet love Original 1963 Selassie speech at the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDscnpF4RsI Beautiful reading of Selassie’s speech with text on screen, by #patobanton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMM6c9Q_Rk Bob Marley live in concert, 1977 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPZydAotVOY
February 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I love the Bob Marley song War in which he adopted this key section of Haile Selassie’s 1963 speech before the United Nations The speech is profound. There are parts to cry over - some of the most aspirational parts that time has so far proven unattainable. The section of Selassie’s speech that Marley immortalized are the words I long to hear shouted loudly from the rooftops by people of every race, color, nationality, age, and sex.
February 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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In honor of #blackhistorymonth #haileselassie and #bobmarley
#racismsucks
#wearenotgoingback!
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#wordart
#reggaemusic
I don’t want to live in a racist society Don’t make me!
February 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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February 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Text set in a light tan heart with brown font: I love the Bob Marley song “War” in which he adopted a key section of Haile Selassie’s 1963 speech before the United Nations. Text on a chocolate brown heart: Selassie’s speech is profound. There are parts to cry over, some of the most aspirational parts that time has so far proven unattainable. The section of the speech that Marley immortalized in song are the words I long to hear shouted from the rooftops by people of every race, color, nationality, age and sex.
February 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Earthy Construct
from the series Animal on Earth oil on canvas 20x16in
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#art #abstractart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #narrativeabstraction #animalonearth
Abstract painting mostly earth tones like raw umber and burnt sienna. The abstract form(s) in blues, greens, reds and yellows contains elements resembling human and earthen shapes that are gently interconnected with each other and moving in space.
February 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Dystoptian Reality Horror Show

#dystopiaisnow
#resist!
#theugliestamerican
Photo of a 2017 protest sign: a drawing of Trump in a black hooded cloak and carrying a large sickle with planet earth a smallish sphere in the upper left. That image is set in a gaudy gold frame. The phrase, The Ugliest American Is written along the bottom part of the gold frame.
February 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Earth Being
from the series Animal on Earth oil on canvas 20x16in
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#art #abstractart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #narrativeabstraction #animalonearth
A male-ish figure with organic abstract forms extending from a skinny plant-like body. The body and background are mostly greens and blues. The organic forms are bright warm yellows, oranges and pinks.
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Small Personage
from the series Animal on Earth oil on canvas 20x16in
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#art #abstractart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #painting #passionforart #narrativeabstraction #animalonearth
Oil on canvas painting. Form based abstraction. Narrative abstraction. A small abstract figure set in an abstract land scape of undulating organic forms rising out of an earthy mound against a greenish sky.
January 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I imagine the text below as a cartoon: Two chipmunks sitting on a bench. One is reading the headline with a quizzical shocked look and the other comments with commiseration and a shoulder shrug and the blurb above their head.
Picture of a note typed on a phone screen. It’s a news type headline that says, The anti-antisemitism organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) defends Musk’s Nazi salute Followed by a second voice saying: See, I told you! Everything is topsy turvy! World on fire! Irony is dead and enemies play dirty tricks for big rewards.
January 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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@bsky.art #art
#AnimalonEarth
Form based abstraction, mixed oils with cold wax medium and pigments. Abstract forms that tell a story. This one is a dynamic abstract figure lightly tethered to an abstract landscape in yellow hued earth tones.
January 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Graphic of a school of little fish swimming in the form of a very big fish with its mouth open and poised to eat a single large fish. The school of little fish are blue, the single about to be eaten fish, is red.
January 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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#dystopian #reality #dystopianrealityhorrorshow
#dystopian #reality #horror #show #dystopianrealityhorrorshow #posttruth
December 15, 2024 at 11:55 PM