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naylandblake
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Artist, Auntie, Bear, BIPOC, Educator, Enby, Fat, Femme. Aspiring cranky crone.They/Them. Archive/shambles/home at www.naylandblake.net I love it when you make things.
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Here's a preview of my outfit.
A person with gray hair and a long braided beard is wearing a hoodie printed to look like an instant ramen packet, an olive kilt, blaze orange leggings yellow socks and camo boots.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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More artists together: with Kambui Olujimi, Charles Gaines, Arnold Kemp and Abby Williliams
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Came to town for the artist's opening of the newly expanded Studio Museum of Harlem, which was full of icons, especially Thelma Golden, the museum's director.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Someone left the Hudson Valley weather set to "Goth"
Dark clouds scuttle across the full moon's face while black branches reach up for the sky. It's all too dramatic.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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It's laundry day and some of you don't believe I own sexy underwear and I am here to show you that you are wrong.
A folding table has a pair of boxer briefs on it. They are imprinted with a photograph of a tabby cat wearing an eye patch and a karate gi, striking a fighting pose. There is a second close-up of the cats face, and the waistband of the boxers reads KAPOW KAPOW KAPOW. The cat looks world weary.
November 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Today I learned that Debussy knew how to wear a hat.
The composer Claude Debussy sits on a wooden chair at the beach holding a parasol. He wears a suit and a sloping felt hat that echoes the lines of his moushache and beard.
November 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Would you listen to a lecture from this biddy?
October 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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New York Peeps: today is the last day to catch my shows at Matthew Marks Gallery 526 West 22nd Street. I'll be there from 3pm to 5pm leading a walk through and signing books. Come on by!
A black vinyl couch on a rubber mat in the middle of a white, square room. Chains are suspended from the walls with various objects hanging from them.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Count Bokula
A drawing of a Rooster with vampire fangs saying "Ah the chickens of the night. What beautiful clucks they make."
October 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Today's mood.
A cropped grid of photos. The two clearest are a person with white hair and beard standing in front of a building and a you opossum swaddled in a blanket. Both look at the camera with similar expressions.
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Post something 90s...
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Kingston. NY! I'd say 1200 people maybe? Folks tell me it was many more than the amount that turned up in June. A friend hosted a sign making party, with a monarch butterfly theme and long bamboo poles, which was great because we could always find each other in the crowd.
A person with a long braided beard and overalls holds a protest sign shaped like a butterfly that says "This Queen Says No Kings"
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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My life in two volumes.
Two paper back books on a table: one is : "No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake" and the other is "My Studio Is A Dungeon Is The Studio" by Nayland Blake.
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Did I convince myself that I deserved a treat after months of hard work? Yes I did and reminded myself that I draw with these and thus they are tax deductible.
Five pens rest on a wooden surface: two fountain pens one dip pen and two plastic brush pens.
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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@ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social One of my favorite of my own pieces. I'm so glad I got to put it up in the SFMoMA
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Today's look.
An older person with a big white beard wears a grey felt fedora, a black t-shirt, a worn denim jumper dress and black jeans. They stand in front of a red house in bright sunlight.
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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If you ever doubted that I work at an art school:
Left to right: two black metal easels a person with long dark hair and a red cap twisting to load the paintbrush they hold from the red metal cart behind them, a black chair. In the foreground, a table with a group of white painted objects.
October 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Started playing "Baby Steps" and it's the perfect game for me: I hate being rushed on platforming and games where I have to aim quickly and shoot at the same time. The idea of just having to worry about each single step is so calming for me. It's so clear that the mechanic can't be mastered.
The cover of althe videos game "Baby Steps": a chubby man in a dirty union suit stands with their back to the camera, confronting a towering mountain.
September 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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What's this I have in my hot little hand? Why, it's just my advance copy of the catalog from my career retrospective that has finally been printed after FIVE years of delay! "No Wrong Holes, Thirty Years of Nayland Blake" will be available for purchase early this November!
A hand holds up a book with a black cover and the title "No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake" A hand holds up a book with a black cover and the title "No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake"
September 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Current read while I wait for the chili to be done.
The cover of the book "I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole" by Elias Canetti
September 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Today's hairband success.
An elderly person with a big white beard is shot in profile. They are wearing a an orange Henley and a mustard yellow hairband made out of a bandana
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It's coming.
Three windows. In the center one, vinyl ettering is laid out for a sign that reads: Nayland Blake, Sex in the 90s , Matthew Marks Gallery. You can barely make out the artist taking the picture reflected in the window.
September 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Golden hour in Tivoli, NY.
A person with curly gray hair and a long beard stares into the setting sun with trees and clouds behind them.
September 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Sluggo taught me everything I know.
A comic panel: Sluggo looks at a board fence. Three holes are bored in it at different heights. Sluggo is saying "WOW - Three holes to choose from"
September 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Went full Usagi mode this morning. Felling pressed.
A person with a long grey beard and bushy hair appears to be rushing down the street with a backpack on. They have a piece of toast sticking out of their mouth.
September 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM