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Yann Oehl
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creative-errant | “artist” | meta-plagiarist | bricoleur | proudly degenerate | unintentional curator | confabulator | machine collaborator

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Bronze scissors engraved with hieroglyphics. The earliest Egyptian scissors date back to around 1500 B.C. and were made of bronze, featuring a design similar to modern shears, where two blades were connected by a metal strip that allowed them to be squeezed together for cutting. These scissors were primarily used for various tasks, although they were not specifically designed for hair cutting.
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The transitions between these elements are particularly fascinating…
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Six-Legged Dog

The original Eni logo designed by Luigi Broggini under the pseudonym Giuseppe Guzzi in 1952

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The logo is for the Italian energy company Eni. A suitable alt text for this image would be: "The Eni logo, which features a black, six-legged dog-like creature with a red flame coming from its mouth. The dog is walking on a line that is tilted at a 7-degree angle."
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Baciai (2017)

Composer, performer and band leader Anton Lukoszevieze shares a series of graphic scores, each of which takes its title from a Lithuanian place name.

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The image provided is a hand-drawn graphic score on white paper. The main composition is a serpentine, abstract line drawing created with black ink, featuring various connected oval and circular shapes that form a path across the page from left to right. This path is crossed by numerous vertical dashed lines and solid lines with numerical labels ranging from 1 to 6. On the right side of the drawing, a human right hand is sketched within a translucent tan-colored rectangular overlay. Several numbered lines point from the surrounding area to specific locations on the fingers and palm of the hand. The overall style is technical yet freehand, suggesting a set of instructions or a diagram for an abstract system.
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Fig. 10

#synthart #synthography #art #aiart #fineart #abstract #asemic #typography #letterform #dada
Figure 10. An abstract image featuring a bird with a cat's head prominently displayed. The bird stands above various fragmented letterforms and geometric shapes. Masking tape is applied across the top of portions of the composition, adding texture and contrast to the design.
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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[Originally posted by Marianne Klöckner]

“Another party trick from my mother: the trachea of a goose (or duck) can be filled with several dried seeds, coiled into a hoop, and dehydrated to make a fully biodegradable, non gmo, non artificial anything, rattly teething ring for a small child.”
A pale pink trachea of a goose (or duck), coiled into a hoop, resting on a brown, textured surface that appears to be a carved tile or wood.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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"Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity" by the French artist Francis Picabia.

This work is considered an example of Proto-Dada, a precursor to the Dada art movement.

#dada #mechanomorphic #diagram
This image is a reproduction of the 1915 artwork, "Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity" by the French artist Francis Picabia. This work is considered an example of Proto-Dada, a precursor to the Dada art movement. It is a mechanomorphic portrait, which depicts a person as a mechanical device. The central figure is a spark plug, which is a cynical statement on the mechanization of desire and sexuality. The work was first published in the avant-garde art journal 291, which was edited by Alfred Stieglitz.
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Kichen Budapest, SubMap 1.0, 2010 (Dániel Feles' home as epicenter).

bourbakisme.blogspot.com/2011/05/subj... Subjective Mapping.
Map 1.0 In the first version of SubMap we present three print maps which show the city from "our point of view". We chose our homes as epicenters of these unique, spherical, perspectival distortions. Additionally we created a superimposed map centred around Kitchen Budapest where we all work together.
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Figure 5.

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Figure 5. Mesa City, Paolo Soleri (left) : The organic shapes of Mesa City lead us, at a careless glance, to believe that it is a richer structure than our more obviously rigid examples. But when we look at it in detail we find precisely the same principle of organization. Take, particularly, the university center. Here we find the center of the city divided into a university and a residential quarter, which is itself divided into a number of villages (actually apartment towers) for 4,000 inhabitants, each again subdivided further and surrounded by groups of still smaller dwelling units.
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Figure 4.

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Figure 4. Tokyo plan, Kenzo Tange (left): This is a beautiful example. The plan consists of a series of loops stretched across the Tokyo Bay. There are four major loops, each of which contains three medium loops. In the second major loop, one medium loop is the railway station and another is the port. Otherwise, each medium loop contains three minor loops which are residential neighborhoods, except in the third major loop where one contains government offices and another industrial offices.
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Figure 3.

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Figure 3. Greater London plan (1943), Abercrombie and Forshaw: The drawing depicts the structure conceived by Abercrombie for London. It is made of a large number of communities, each sharply separated from all adjacent communities. Abercrombie writes, "The proposal is to emphasize the identity of the existing communities, to increase their degree of segregation, and where necessary to reorganize them as separate and definite entities." And again, "The communities themselves consist of a series of sub-units, generally with their own shops and schools, corresponding to neighborhood units." The city is conceived as a tree with two principal levels. The communities are the larger units of the structure; the smaller sub-units are neighborhoods. There are no overlapping units. The structure is a tree.
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Figure 2.

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Figure 2. Greenbelt, Maryland, Clarence Stein: This "garden city" has been broken down into superblocks. Each superblock contains schools, parks, and a number of subsidiary groups of houses built around parking lots. The organization is a tree.
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Figure 1.

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Figure 1. Columbia, Maryland, Community Research and Development Inc.: Neighborhoods, in clusters of five, form "villages." Transportation joins the villages into a new town. The organization is a tree.
October 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Diagrams C and D

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The tree axiom states: A collection of sets forms a tree if and only if, for any two sets that belong to the collection, either one is wholly contained in the other, or else they are wholly disjoint. The structure illustrated in diagrams C and D is a tree. Since this axiom excludes the possibility of overlapping sets, there is no way in which the semi-lattice axiom can be violated, so that every tree is a trivially simple semi-lattice.
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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A City is Not a Tree
Christopher Alexander

Originally published in:
Architectural Forum, 1965

Diagrams A and B

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The structure illustrated in diagrams A and B is a semi-lattice. It satisfies the axiom since, for instance, [234] and [345] both belong to the collection and their common part, [34], also belongs to it. (As far as the city is concerned, this axiom states merely that wherever two units overlap, the area of overlap is itself a recognizable entity and hence a unit also. In the case of the drug store example, one unit consists of the newsrack, sidewalk, and traffic light. Another unit consists of the drug store itself, with its entry and the newsrack. The two unit overlap in the newsrack. Clearly this area of overlap is itself a recognizable unit, and so satisfies the axiom above which defines the characteristic of a semi-lattice.)
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Egon Schiele — Hand Study, 1912
This artwork, titled "Hand Study" by Egon Schiele from 1912, features a depiction of a hand with elongated fingers and exaggerated, expressive contours. The hand is a mix of natural skin tones and green, reflecting Schiele's distinctive style. The drawing is rendered on a light brown paper, lending warmth to the sketch. Schiele's precise line work and bold use of color evoke a sense of emotion and character in the hand's posture.
October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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“Device for obtaining intimate contact with, engaging, or clamping bodies of any shape.”

Patented in 1913. The “fractal vise” might just be the coolest tool you never knew existed.

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Some of the drawings from patent no. US1059545A
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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A few more quick shots. I managed to cram 15 prints in space 😆
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Woo! I just hung up my very first art exhibit 😊

At some point I’ll have some sort of opening, but for now it’s a low key soft launch. Come and check out my prints, grab a coffee and try some amazing baked treats @ Batch Baking Company located in Seattle near Capitol Hill.

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Some of my prints hanging on a wall Some of my prints hanging on a wall
October 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Axis Mundi 1.05

#synthart #synthography #aiart #アート #kunst #arte #art #艺术 #fineart #minimalism #monochrome #powerlines
A tall, white utility pole stands against a dark background. Three birds are perched on the top crossbar of the pole. The image has a stark contrast, emphasizing the pole and birds against the black backdrop.
October 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Axis Mundi 1.04

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A dark, abstract illustration featuring a stark, monochromatic background. At the top, a large white circle, representing a moon or sun, contrasts with the dark upper half. The lower half shows silvery silhouettes of communication poles and wires, arranged in a scattered manner, with some vertical and horizontal lines intersecting. A small figure, possibly a bird, is perched on one of the poles.
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Axis Mundi 1.03

#synthart #synthography #aiart #アート #kunst #arte #art #艺术 #fineart #minimalism #monochrome #powerlines #antenna
A utility pole stands vertically in the center of the image. It is a slender structure with several attachments, including metal brackets and small lights, mounted on a dark background. The lower section of the image features a flat, light-colored surface that contrasts with the dark upper section.
October 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM