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Jun. 13th, 2025 04:17 pm
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Archaic Torso of Apollo // We cannot know his legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso / is still suffused with brilliance from inside, / like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, // gleams in all its power. Otherwise / the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could / a smile run through the placid hips and thighs / to that dark center where procreation flared. // Otherwise this stone would seem defaced / beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders / and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: // would not, from all the borders of itself, / burst like a star: for here there is no place / that does not see you. You must change your life. 
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo”, from the collection Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
This is one of my all-time favorite poems from my all-time favorite poet. It’s uncertain what statue Rilke wrote of specifically, but the one I chose to draw is a likely candidate. I’ve read and reread this poem probably a hundred times.

Jun. 8th, 2025 09:43 am
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the album cover of En Todas Partes by PETSSS 
my friend victor asked me to make cover art for his new EP and it’s finally out so i can tell you guys about it! also LISTEN TO ITTTTTT if you’re at ALL into techno, he’s amazingggg (plus deception features glial cells)—it’s on spotify, bandcamp, and soundcloud. you can follow victor on insta @/victor_trumpets ^_^ now see me talk about my art
about the cover art: i took a nepheline syenite thin section and put it in XPL to bring out its interference colors, then overlayed the albite twinning from a labradorite slide (so my thanks to my school’s mineral collection!)—this was all done by tracing and editing pictures taken with a leica xpl microscope in procreate. i played around with color and orientation for a while with a lot of input from victor until we landed on this! i’m happy with it and the part i think is cool and the reason i was so excited to tell you guys about it is that i basically made a frankenstein mineral—this is something beautiful, made up of two real minerals, that couldn’t occur in nature. it’s taking the art of the rocks i’m looking at and creating my own!
side note: i knowwwww the text isn’t lined up perfectly and it’s driving me CRAZY i sent a second file with it fixed but it’s off by a single pixel so i don’t think he spotted the difference T_T i’m still really happy with how it turned out though!!

Nov. 7th, 2024 12:07 pm
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me // Our World, 2024 // graphing paper, embroidery thread, and acrylic on canvas 
i’ve been dating alison for two years as of 7 nov :) i made this painting and they’ve titled it “our world”, which is accurate. i’ve wanted to make them a painting since i met them and it feels like this is what’s been quietly building up over the past two years.. it took under an hour to actually put together aside from the thread which i had to do the next morning when the paint was dry. i really enjoyed making this and it feels more like, MY art rather than just art i made. anyway, i just feel like it captures how it feels to have alison in my life. i hate explaining art so i’ll just say that it’s been a wonderful two years

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