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Sarah-Lambert Cook
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🎨 Artist | Anthropology 🌿 Environment|
Exploring stories of the environment and the ancient past through art.
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Dropping a few of these in late, so here’s a thread of them:

Days 5-9 (just one version of each. Will get back to 2 soon.)
June 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Day 4/101 of drawing + writing project — Cassandra's Curse. This one was born of frustrated thoughts and a conversation with a friend yesterday who was feeling this sense too.
Illustration of woman sitting with head in her hand before leaves that are gradually turning to ash. In left corner: Illustration of woman sitting with head in her hand before leaves that are gradually turning to ash. The text over the rest reads: It feels rotten, doesn’t it? A strange disconnect, some sort of otherworldliness, a what-the-hell-is-going-on feeling that rolls through the flesh and burrows into the mind. In a burning hot summer, hotter than the last, and the next will be hotter still, and the rubbish bins overflow, plastic scattering in the breeze until it catches in the hedges and sage and lands in the rivers to sink down, down, down, we talk of all of this. How can it be that we See, know hope, and yet say Little Can Be Done? Everything can be done! We could live with less—live gladly with less, couldn’t we? Why is less mistaken for lack? Why is good framed as suffering? Why is excess confused with ease? The green curls in on itself and in a burning hot summer scatters to ash.
May 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Really wanting to keep sharing my 101 day project here, but also want to be clear that despite BlueSky auto-labeling some of my art “adult content” they have simply been figurative drawings and are not intended to be sexual.
May 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Day 3/101 - three for three.
Symbols inspired by geometric marks in Niaux Cave in France. Thinking again on women and paleolithic cave art + mark making.

Drawing project where for 101 days I make art + write something with it
Art of three female torso silhouettes against black background with marks from Niaux cave in France over them. Text reads: What if we were counting? What if we counted? What if our bodies bore these same marks? What if the marks were children our bodies bore? What if we ground the pigment? What if we held the brush?
May 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Day 2/101 making a drawing + writing everyday.

A wild snail eating.
Sketch of a snail on a leaf eating Sketch of a snail on a leaf eating. Text reads: I expected the dirt on my knees and hands and back from crawling into the narrow passage beneath the iron age village. I didn’t expect to have damp legs from kneeling for some time in the grass, watching a snail eat some leaves.
May 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I’m starting a 101 draw + write challenge for myself. This is pretty much just exploratory. I need to see what can come from just cutting loose and doing it. Giving myself this mini framing will (hopefully) help.
1/101 - procreate - symbols inspired by Lascaux cave

#poetry #art #illustration
Left side is a drawing of a female silhouette in color against black with symbols from Lascaux cave drawn over. On the right, a poem reads: We go out, and we return, and we go out, and we return. It repeats over and over and over There is growth, There is loss, There is growth again We make marks, We lay down the charcoal, We pick it up again. Into the cave, Out of the cave, rubble falls, rubble is cleared, Into the cave again, It repeats over and over and over. Left side is a drawing of a female silhouette in color against black with symbols from Lascaux cave drawn over. On the right, a poem reads: I am well, I am tired, I am well again. We go out, and we return. We grow, we experience loss. We make marks, we lay down the charcoal. We pick it up again. We return. We return. We return.
May 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Guys 😭
They met one winter morning among the ruins of an abandoned library. Reeem m was looking for remnants of books, while Sakher searched for a piece of wood to feed his small fire. Their eyes met, and a smile passed between fatigue and fear. It didn't take much - broken souls know how to recognize one another. Their story began in silence, interrupted by a few words about pain, the past, and the things that no longer existed. Each became a home for the other. Reem started writing again, this time about hope — about Sakher, who, despite his name meaning "rock," carried enough tenderness to mend her heart. Sakher, in turn, found in reem a reason to seek new work, a life starting from zero — or perhaps below it. They walked together, owning nothing but their hearts and a little hope. But that was enough.
May 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Reconstruction of early medieval cashel at Cahercommaun near Kilnaboy, the Burren, Co Clare (by Conor McDermott, based on photo by National Monuments Service and other photoshopped images of houses, cattle, crops and landscape) This is what we think one early medieval ringfort might have looked like
May 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Glance back to this painting I finished in spring. “Entanglements in the Hedge.” Very caught lately in thinking about the strange way nature is often described as something one goes to. Like your body, your yard, your neighborhood isn’t nature—it’s separate. Nope.
Watercolor painting of six birds in an early spring box hedge as they all tussle with a piece of yarn caught in the branches. On the far right, the yarn transforms from being paint and is a real piece of yarn dangling on.
August 19, 2023 at 6:42 PM
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This is the kind of news we need
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Apr 25
If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises.
And people say history is boring.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate
Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.

Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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🧪🏺
6,500-year-old hunting weapons discovered Texas cave
The weapons from a toolkit unearthed in Texas may be the earliest ever found in North America.
www.livescience.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Mix collab with @laurainspirit.bsky.social from this weekend. Collage by Laura and poem by me. (Text is in the alt text)

#art #poetry
Mini Collage and a short, hand written poem. The poem reads: No. There will be no bending. By the time the starlight reaches us, it is an ancient memory. The stars, which sing of my future from across an impenetrable past, have no concept of the river time can be… A yellow river, lit by sunlight. But time is a wheel I wear around my neck. It turns over with ancient voices and sings. No, there will be no bending.
April 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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This was SO much fun to do
laurainspirit.bsky.social LAURA. @laurainspirit.bsky.social · Apr 6
Mini collaboration — #collage on Instax by me + #poem by @sarahlambertcook.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Glorious, gorgeous, radiant color #flowers
Purple Cape marguerite flowers
April 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Watching John Green channel all—ALL — of his fame and energy into constantly talking about the negligence of letting people die of TB…it actually makes me feel like I might cry a little. It’s powerful to see someone commit like that. Powerful and rare.
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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In January, an iceberg broke off of Antarctica and some scientists happened to be right there and decided to go see what had been living below it. Kind of like turning over a rock to see what's wriggling underneath. (by @ashleybvigil.bsky.social) 🧪
Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away
A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem
www.scientificamerican.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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jensnotroff.com
Okay, this is big. Really.

New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!

Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:

🏺 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-...
How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago - Türkiye Today
New findings in Anatolia show that hunter-gatherers were experimenting with copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early technology.
www.turkiyetoday.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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An imagined tree
Drawing of a gnarled old tree trunk
March 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.
March 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Countries around the world support Ukraine after President Zelenskyy is disrespected by Clumpy and (JD)=Just dumb.
March 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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He did not bend his neck
moudhy.bsky.social Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Feb 7
“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”

A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.
Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown
February 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Rarely do I comment on this sort of thing, but that oval office meeting with Zelensky was incredibly upsetting to watch. Jaw clenched, shoulders taut watching. Turned it off. So upset about how they spoke to Zelensky.
February 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Wet snow is gripping the tree branches. It’s clinging to the wires, making them sag. It lines the sidewalks and streets. Snow blankets everything with a sense of slow, of calm, of rest.

And then a car zips by with a vroom and splash and the mad world rushes in.
February 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM