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A painting by artist Sarah Soward, featuring an elephant roaming across the sky, surrounded by flying seagulls.
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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post pies please
Two sweet potato pies, with ginger spiced almond cookie crusts
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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A daughter of the Witchopus you were unable to burn.
Happy Halloween!
#CrochetAway #Handmade #Crochet #Witch #Octopus
A witch octopus with a green face, protruding nose, pointy black hat, and 8 spooky black tentacles. It’s too late - she’s already put a hex on you. Now all your Halloween candy will taste like sugar.
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#SewAndTell this week is sewing horror stories. I used a satin stitch appliqué method to piece the back of this shirt together, but didn’t use quite a wide enough stitch, and the fabric soon started to fray and pull at the satin stitch seams. Also the butt is ill-fitted.
#Handmade #Sewing
Rear view of a terrifying outfit, comprised of a shirt and shorts in a loud and senseless combination of patterns and colors. Bright oranges and yellows, a stripey lemon pattern, a pink fabric with fanciful beetles, and a fabric with oranges scattered everywhere. The shirt features a satin stitch appliqué technique, meant to look like an abstract mountainous landscape. The shorts are wrinkled and puckered around the but, due to poor easing in the crotch. Front view of the same terrifying outfit that a psychopath would construct and wear
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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@jolior.bsky.social I got a response! The work is called Four Genders Were Born… by Nanibah Chacon, 2022. The placard doesn’t give dimensions, but the thing is huge - I would guess maybe a 9’ x 14’ canvas. I manipulated the image to try and make it look like I was standing in front.
NANIBAH CHACON Diné (Navajo), born 1980 Four Genders Were Born... 2022 Acrylic on Polytab "The brown body was kept hidden and not celebrated for generations because of colonization." —Nanibah Chacon This painting depicts the first genders acknowledged in Diné creation stories. In these narratives, two sets of twins were born: the first a male and a female, the second a female that embodied the male and a male that embodied the female. Nanibah Chacon's work speaks to how the gender binary did not always align with Indigenous worldviews. Though many Indigenous communities recognized individuals whose gender expression operated outside the binary, settler colonizers forcibly introduced Christianity, whose doctrine rejected and attacked those beliefs. Two standing androgynous figures holding hands, with a column of circles between them, a diamond shape superimposed across their bodies, and plus signs in the corners.
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Final okra experiment before it goes out of season: Wild lacto-fermented blend of okra, bell peppers, red onion, and carrots. This batch turned out a little slimier. The previous one included a sachet of bay leaves and black tea - a recommended addition!

#Handmade #Probiotic #Lactofermented #Okra
Glass jar with a black plastic lid, containing fermented okra, bell peppers, onions, and carrots, soaking in a murky brine.
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Thanks, @brooklynmuseum.org for a great experience! I wish I could visit every day, but I’m glad to take my inspiration home with me, to view and create art locally, with my newfound knowledge and perspectives.
Three people sailing on the belly of a crow. Cat vase, with yaks in the background. Bust of a woman, with painstakingly chiseled hair. Bust of a man in a warm hoodie.
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Overall, I was inspired by the museum’s celebration of art, and artists, in all their diverse forms. The artists’ care in crafting their work and their voice is echoed in the thoughtful curation of the exhibits.
Handmade quilt depicting a woman dressed in bold patterns and bright colors, victorious, with both hands raised, index and middle fingers pointed upwards. This mural-sized painting was difficult to photograph without an obscuring glare. Two androgynous figures stand, clasping hands, each with both male and female genitalia. In front of the painting, a larger-than-life-sized bronze statue with exaggerated feminine features. Line drawing of an amorphous animal with elephant, bird, horse, snake, deer, and lion heads emerging from a central body. Signed “A. Calder” A woman singing, hand cupped at the side of her face, against an orange background.
October 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Brooklyn Museum’s approach can straddle that line of being too hand-holdy, but there’s a value in teaching people how to view art, that levels the playing field - lets everyone participate.

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A life-sized replicated painting of a wealthy white family outdoors, with their black servant boy in the center. The artist has roughly painted over the family with broad strokes of white paint, leaving only the boy, unmolested, staring straight at the viewer. TITUS KAPHAR American, born 1976 Shifting the Gaze 2017 Oil on canvas William K. Jacobs Jr., Fund, 2017.34 This work came together in two stages. After painting a copy of Frans Hals's Family Group in a Landscape (ca. 1645-58), Titus Kaphar unveiled the work during his 2017 TEDTalk and began applying loose, white brushstrokes over the figures. He stopped at the final subject, a young Black boy thought to be the family's servant, whom Kaphar left visible. Across his wide-ranging practice, Kaphar seeks to shift the viewer's gaze, reorienting audiences to focus on historically overlooked subjects.
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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As a kid, I preferred the science museum to the art museum - interactive exhibits that had educational purpose. But I grew to appreciate the art museum, with art that speaks for itself rather than railroading the viewer through a specific path of learning and appreciation.
Four women celebrate their mother’s birthday, who was inconsiderate enough to be born in the heat of July. It’s too hot to eat cake, or knit, or do anything but wilt into the furniture. FLORINE STETTHEIMER American, 1871-1944 Heat 1919 Oil on canvas Florine Stettheimer painted the luxurious lifestyle of New York City's elite, including this scene of her own family at their summer retreat in Bedford Hills, New York. The artist and her sisters were well known for their eclectic personal styles and involvement in the art world. Here, they enjoy a moment of rest as they celebrate their mother's birthday. Rosetta is surrounded by her daughters in a vibrant yellow and orange setting that evokes the sweltering heat of July. Overcome by the hot weather, Stella and Carrie abandon their knitting at the compositional center, as Florine and Ettie recline in the foreground, mimicking the wilting tree branches.
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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There were some cleverly-placed audio pieces as well, such as a looped recording of an ocean shore, in front of a painting of ocean waves. Or a cone of affirmations by Tricia Hersey, which may have saved me:

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TRICIA HERSEY American, born 1974 Rest Life 2021 Audio: 3 min., 56 sec. In this guided meditation, performance artist and Nap Ministry founder Tricia Hersey leads listeners through a series of rest- and liberation-centered affirmations. To learn more about Hersey's powerful "rest is resistance" frame-work, check out our Bloomberg Connects app.
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I’m not one to spend time reading placards, but the language here was so carefully and thoughtfully written. This quote caught me teary-eyed - exactly what I needed to hear: “You are not 'lazy.'
You are a human with limits, dealing with a lot at once.
You deserve periods of rest and reflection."
A youth sits on a stool, head in his hand, foot propped on a shoeshine box. A 7up ad on the wall behind him. He’s tired, he’s resting, but he’s not lazy. "You are not 'lazy.' You are a human with limits, dealing with a lot at once. You deserve periods of rest and reflection." —We the Urban ERNEST CRICHLOW American, 1914-2005 Shoe Shine 1953 Oil on Masonite Brooklyn-based first-generation Caribbean artist Ernest Crichlow represented the experiences of Black Americans at the height of segregation, which were characterized by limited opportunities and inadequate access to housing, education, and work. Here, a young shoeshiner slumps against his propped knee, presumably resting during a quiet moment on a busy thoroughfare. Throughout his career, Crichlow infused his compositions with a quiet dignity that animates, rather than flattens, the complex social and cultural contexts from which his subjects emerge.
October 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The works of Beaufort Delaney and Sasha Gordon also caught my eye. So many pieces vying for attention as I tried to make it through the upper floors, but some I just had to stop and gawk at for a while.
A bright, colorful, and expressive painting of a Fang reliquary figure, bowl of lemons, and a crow. Kinda in the style of a still life, except the crow is mid-flight, swooping down towards the lemons. "I learned about light from Beauford Delaney, the light contained in every thing, in every surface, in every face... and this light held the power to illuminate, even to redeem and reconcile and heal." - James Baldwin, 1964 BEAUFORD DELANEY American, 1901-1979 Untitled (Fang Sculpture, Crow, and Fruit) 1945 Oil on canvas Evident in this still life by Beauford Delaney are the vivid color and energetic brushwork that so moved writer James Baldwin. Along with its pulsating color, the painting's minimal composition is imbued with rich iconography, including the Fang reliquary figure, the bowl of fruit, and the crow midflight, all in an arrangement reminiscent of an altar. The Fang people in central West Africa create ritual figures to guard the remains of ancestors, and the crow suggests a warning from an ancestral spirit. Delaney moved from Boston to Harlem in 1929. As the Great Depression loomed, core tenets of Alain Locke's influential writing in The New Negro (1925) would go on to inform Black expression for decades, namely the call for Black American artists to look to Africa for inspiration. A purple artist grins joyfully towards the viewer, as she paints a nude portrait of herself in yellow. She is nude, except for a paint-splattered apron, the top of which has folded into the cleft between her voluptuous breasts. Paints, brushes, and other painting equipment are scattered across a table in the foreground. Yellow light streams from the window in the background. SASHA GORDON American, born 1998 My Friend Will Be Me 2022 Oil on canvas Sasha Gordon depicts herself here in the nude with lustrous blue and purple skin, casually leaning on her easel and grinning widely at the viewer. Wrapped in a paint-streaked smock, she works on a posed nude study of herself, applying white pigment to the yellow underpainting of her outlined bare skin— a suggestively racialized choice. In her work, Gordon often grapples with her Polish-Jewish and Korean American mixed-race identity. Engaging in-and challenging-Western traditions of self-portraiture, she complicates the relationship between herself as an Asian American woman and the viewer. Through enlarged features and sanguine expressions, the artist explores bold, bizarre, and at times bewildering imagery with herself at the center. Defying categorization, Gordon's indigo-skinned persona stares confidently from the canvas, inviting and reveling in the viewer's attention.
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Talk about narrative and cultural context - “See how these white children have dominion over all these various animals, and everyone gets along? So too can these white men Peaceably introduce their bullshit bureaucracies and influenza to these Indians.” Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
In the foreground, a cuddle puddle of white kids, plus assorted carnivorous and herbivorous animals. In the background, some white dudes introduce the concept of “Pennsylvania” to the Lenape people. EDWARD HICKS American, 1780-1849 The Peaceable Kingdom ca. 1833-34 Oil on canvas • Edward Hicks imagines the peaceful coexistence of all creatures in this harmonious scene, inspired by Isaiah's prophecy of God's earthly kingdom. Animals and children gather in the foreground, and a vignette of William Penn's treaty with the Lenape appears in the background at left. Deeply committed to Quakerism and its teachings of peace and brotherly love, Hicks reproduced his Peaceable Kingdom composition on canvas more than sixty times. Hicks's idealized encounter between British colonists and Indigenous people, however, perpetuated fictional narratives of fairness and cooperation. Ultimately, the Lenape were forced out of Pennsylvania due to fraudulent land deals perpetrated by Penn's sons.
October 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Raphaelle Peale was 48 years old in 1822 when he painted Still Life With Cake - same age as me now. He died three years later. Y’all, I really want to taste this dainty little cake before I die. Royal icing, with some kind of colored dust on top, maybe some citrusy flavors going on inside?
Still life oil painting, featuring a yellow apple, an absolutely delicious-looking dainty little cake with white icing and some powdery green and orange decoration on the top, and in the middle maybe a bunch of grapes that are well on their way to being raisins? I dunno - they ate some weird shit back then. I hope that cake doesn’t taste like fish sauce and rusty screws. A plaque describing the painting: RAPHAELLE PEALE American, 1774-1825 Still Life with Cake 1822 Oil on panel Museum Collection Fund, 24.72 Acquired by André E. Rueff, before 1924; purchased, 1924.
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Contemporary and ancient artworks were displayed side by side throughout the exhibit - there was a narrative of historic and cultural context that poked at how our relationship to art changes, and stays the same, over centuries.
A creature with snail antennae, sharp jagged teeth, beady eyes, and what looks like intricate circuitry etched all over its face and body. McDonald’s Big Mac clamshell, fry box, and disposable utensils - all made of bronze, with intricate designs and patina as if they were ancient artifacts. A stern bird, guarding expensive vases. Someone’s boisterous auntie, wearing her best hat.
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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This piece was enchanting, and literally chanting. A miniature slice of city, with a beautiful prayerful chant emanating from inside. It called me from the next room over, and as soon as I saw it I was transported - I think a part of me still lives in that tiny home.
A wall hanging, featuring a miniature three-dimensional slice of city, all cluttered and stacked upon itself, made of found objects and bits of organic matter. Embroidered laundry hangs from strings. Pipes and wires jut out from cross-sectioned walls and streets. A little car, the side of a house, and rooftop gardens seemingly receding into the distance.
October 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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As with most museums, I didn’t have nearly enough time to satisfactorily view the whole place. I tried to hone in on the pieces that caught my attention, and had to skip a good portion of it. One floor had an Asian art collection, and I managed to snap some cool cats.
A grumpy tiger with bushy eyebrows, standing on its own tail. A bronze cat with a wide toothy grin, standing in a short pedestal. Its tail lays along its back with a curl at the tip, as if the piece could be hung like a Christmas ornament. Two worn wooden tigers. The tiger on the right looks like it’s highly amused by a joke it just told. The tiger on the left is unamused, possibly offended. A ceramic lion with a chubby sausage-shaped body, and a cylinder sticking out its back, as if it were a bud vase. It looks very proud of itself.
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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I got to spend some time in and around New York City this month, and saw some pretty cool museums, but my favorite was the Brooklyn Museum. @brooklynmuseum.org 🧵
A grotesque cigar-smoking bespectacled man, apparently named King Porn, according to the counter he sits behind. He’s made of burlap and other various colorful fabrics, and his cash register reads $3.98. Behind him, a painted backdrop with posters for the Cactus Club (featuring a scraped-up nude woman with potted cacti all around), Cigarette (featuring a blindfolded nude man with several lit cigarettes being thrust at his various parts), and a sign reading “IF WE DON’T HAVE IT IN STOCK ASK DON”. Maybe King Porn is also known as Don? No matter - one gets the sense this porn shop has pretty much everything in stock.
October 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Home made prickly pear kvass! With tunas from my yard, red cabbage, apple, jalapeño, lemon rind, and sea salt. I added a couple tuna skins as well, for extra tannins. Beautiful, bright, tart, tasty tonic!
#Handmade #LactoFermented #Probiotic #PricklyPear #Kvass
Several swing-top bottles, filled with bright red prickly pear kvass Prickly pear cacti from my yard, with deep purple tunas sprouting out the top
October 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This week’s #CrochetAway prompt is anything 🧡orange🧡

So here’s a wide-eyed orange tentacle monster. Go on - give ‘em a squeeze!
🧶 #Handmade #Crochet #Tentacle #Monster
An orange tentacle monster, slip stitch crocheted, with wide eyes, against a brown backdrop.
October 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This week’s #CrochetAway prompt is spooky Halloween makes!
Jack ‘O Pus, at your service! (Jacktopus? Punkinpus?)
#Handmade #Crochet #Spooky #Pumpkin #Octopus
Slip stitch crocheted finger puppet with a Jack ‘O Lantern head, and octopus tentacles below. Seated on a rotting tree stump with autumnal leaves surrounding.
October 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I attended a cousin’s wedding this weekend, and so whipped up a brideopus and groomopus
September 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Not until I’ve had my #Caturday
A stripey cat, poking it’s head out of the covers
September 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Keeping the balance
☯️ #CatsOfBluesky
Top-down view of a white and brown cat curled up side-by-side, in kind of a yin yang pattern.
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM