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Kira キラ
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Civil litigator, art nerd, soccer lover, club demon. 🦋 lumpyplume.com (Goodreads/ Storygraph)
🦦🦦 Carti +トンボ (Tommi)📍Philly
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my little silky princes
Up close white ferret, Carti, with a gold framed painting in the background
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Textiles and mixed media by Qualeasha Wood, Malware in Transit show at the Philadelphia airport
Textiles and mixed media by Qualeasha Wood, Malware in Transit at the Philadelphia airport. The textiles are jackard printed with the artist taking a selfie of herself in opened images, which are within screenshots of various computer windows. A drop down window says face care, hair stuff, toothbrush, and other text items related to care that are difficult to read Textiles and mixed media by Qualeasha Wood, Malware in Transit at the Philadelphia airport. Textiles look like computer screenshots showing the x button to close a window and a pointed cursor. There are screens and electronics also encased with the textiles.
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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seasonal ferret alert
Sable ferret sits on orange pumpkin in a grouping of seasonal display items including a straw broom on a sidewalk
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Event recap photos for Shaping Ground art show at my home 🌺
Collage of artists for shaping grounds show (left to right): Kira Lum, Imani Anderson, and Elizabeth Burns Large earthenware Ceramics with white glaze, and photographs by Elizabeth Burns of portraits and cityscapes Collage of guests at Shaping Ground art show over photographs by Elizabeth Burns of pink dogwood flower covered in dew. In the collage is a watercolor of a ferret in a Chinese calligraphy style kozo by Kira Lum. Collage of guests over photograph of plants, image of Kira Lum prints of watercolors, photos by Elizabeth Burns. Visible text inscription (wall text to accompany photography reads: D. Elizabeth Burns Photography Poems by D. Elizabem Bume Image: Graduate smelling flower in celebration, milestone accomplished: 2004 Title: Qween mывала a sometimes chaotic world a single mother your lessons about love could be left through expenences, bearing withess ness with icy threaded through it, you were on the road of alf discovery defring what true unconditional love could be, you showed your three jewels a fragile ersion you, we didnt understand unit we were met with the same dilemma as grown women wwep breath, sowww deep breaths. A flower nourtshed by the sunlight can't go out quietly, you see shines in celebration, pacing eff and taking the time needed for its growth sage: Leo in neing images: 2023 have nen the next growth phase so the sun could look upon & As you walked through thal saw the colors of the wind rushing to meet you, the water droplets chattering in tement, keeping you bydrated as you steady on your path. The earth expresses joy as it cradlies Bottom of your feet, protecting you as you walk. The friction caused by unpredictability if you didn't take ownership of it for long your presence, heaven sent. To a world so serving of you so through and through You're the delicate wishy growing in the hood, airy th and free, yet sturdy A force of nature you will always be al gardens, I see the cousins to the sunflowers, holering to the lilies, in awe of your radiating baning witness to you rising up in love, self discovery in preparation for this next season In depth interview with Chanel Addison Photo: 2022 Fixing my crown up to the clouds for peace, why it's so intriguing to me, they carry weight wat in me too. I felt silhouette of your love carest my face as i walk out into this world day by aming to stand on business. ....
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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First glimpse of the public Calder Gardens in Philadelphia 🪻
People assemble and sunken out your corridor facing large black Calder sculpture in Calder Gardens Philadelphia Purple daisy like wildflowers in Calder Gardens Philadelphia Mirrored wall of Calder Gardens, Philadelphia
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"Arabesque," from Betweenness, poems by Varun Ravindran

plays with sheet music for poetic form
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one gull on the air / one crow in the fir / sun in on through the cut rain/ standing between the door/ the sea--/ whose hinges chirping "Arabesque," from Betweenness, poems by Varun Ravindran
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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note to self - elaborate landscape and floral designs in wallpapers
(House of Hackney)
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Extremely cute white poodle sits on couch in front of elaborate floral wallpapered room with deep green painted arched ceiling
September 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Carti portrait by Kristofferson San Pablo!
Vibrant oil pastel and colored pencil drawing of white ferret on floor of kitchen
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Very exciting mail from artist Kristofferson San Pablo!

(his parents named their sons by what was playing on the radio at the hospital)
Drawing of sleepy Snoopy that says do not bend plz thanks! On priority mail envelope, with the "From:" label saying the illustrator's name, Kristofferson San Pablo
September 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Art for sale at Wendy's Art & Frame Shop (Philadelphia)
Bottom corner of pastel of a fish by artist Yuiyi Nong [illegible] with black plastic frame and gold inset Bright green framed embroidery of woman on red and pink bicycle with colorful flowers in bike basket and wearing straw hat and Áo dài Charcoal drawing of reclined figure with glasses in ornate black frame Framed red fabric with gold embossed Chinese characters and phoenix.
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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my corner coffee stop crew love the ferret walks
A sable and marked white ferret look up from inside a soft carrier A sable and marked white ferret look up from inside a soft carrier
September 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Flyer for our art show 🤗
SHAPING GROUND ART SHOW SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH 1-5PM CERAMICS BY IMANI ANDERSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELIZABETH BURNS PAINTINGS & DANCE BY KIRA LUM CLASSICAL JAPANESE DANCE PERFORMANCE AT 4PM MESSAGE FOR ADDRESS ALL ARE WELCOME Collage of 1) Japanese dance set; 2) Japanese dance studio with wooden floor, name plate, and golden fan on display; 3) water droplets blurring the lens; 4) woman with shironuri makeup in blue kimono with wave pattern and red obi in kneeling dance pose with hands up
September 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Film photos by Philadelphia-based photographer Gabriel Rosario (via Jojogabbfilm.com)
Film portraits from jojogabbfilm.com by Gabriel Rosario arranged in a collage from evening events featuring colorful outfits and hairstyles
September 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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kabuki set design photos
Collection of black and white kabuki set design photos on yellow table
August 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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So wish I had more/better pictures or videos from full makeup odori performances!
For women wear orange kimonos with green light gauze covered and red rope hair ties Woman with Japanese dance makeup stands next to seated elder woman, both wearing kimono Woman wearing blue kimono and Japanese dance makeup stands next to grow wearing green shirt and sunglasses On a stage with painted backdrop, girl in kimono raises hand in a dance pose while nearby woman in kimono holds purple Japanese umbrella up for her, facing the background indicating she is a stage hand and not part of the show
August 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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"I lean over a little puppet I notice a tiny movement of a tiny finger which a little while ago was still inside me"
Photo of Comcast building in Philadelphia ceiling art which projects the words "I lean over a little puppet I notice a tiny movement of a tiny finger which a little while ago was still inside me" A church is reflected in the foreground
August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I present... Raava. Delivered through the cat distribution system to friends.
Black kitten with white paws and white cheeks. Black kitten with white paws and white cheeks. Black kitten with white paws and white cheeks. Black kitten with white paws and white cheeks.
August 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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ND Poetry Club 🫡
Susan Howe - Concordance 📚
Hand opens book Susan Howe - Concordance with an acorn on the cover
August 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Don't you dare think of changing colors on me now
Slightly browning edges of maple leaves on tree
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Cubby hideaway log for Carti and Tommi #ferretsky #ferrets #フェレット
Masked white ferret sits in cat hiding lodge that looks like a log and sable ferret looks up at camera
August 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Artist Jacintha Kruc works on a fresco by Zack Bird for Borromini
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Image description: Artist Jacintha Kruc works on a fresco by Zack Bird for Stephen Starr's new trattoria, Borromini in the old Philadelphia Barnes & Noble building. Photo by Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Source https://share.inquirer.com/W1iM3l
August 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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vet time for the boys
Carti, white ferret, and Tommi, sable ferret in hard shell cage look outward
August 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Friends let friends borrow their entire Sherlock Holmes manga series with jingoistic but light BL themes #booksky📚💙📚
Comic trades for issues 1 through 18 of Moriarty The Patriot a comic by Hikaru Miyoshi based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, storyboards by Ryosuke Takeuchi published by Viz. Issue 6 is laying on top of the pile in the cardboard box, which features a manga style drawing of a blonde woman with blue eyes in a Victorian style dress as she lifts the dress and turns to her right.
August 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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don't mind if I do
Hand holds up fig from a box of figs with a sign " fresh figs, help yourself/ from backyard. (Wash first)"
August 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hatsumode celebration sketch
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Brush pen drawing by Kira Lum that says お宮参り with furigana. Four family members stand together and pray to the right, a father, mother looking down at a baby in her arms draped in an adult sized kimono and a young daughter.
August 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM