Tamara Rafkin

Thankful for Costco’s pharmacy. Been searching for a vaccine here in N Texas for weeks that I need for travel abroad. Finally I’m able to get it through them with 3wks to go until travel time. 🙏🏼

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3 wks from today I head to a 2mo residency in China returning to go to 2wks at Penland in NC. Raising funds to get my ceramics home ( with possible tarrif issues) + unforeseen expenses- grateful for any help possible file under:Artist life durring current times gofund.me/d0347e67

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Part of my ‘Construction-Deconstruction’ series reflects on the current moment. Cyanotype photos on a slip cast vase with various glazes. Merging my photography and
Ceramics practice while looking at place, how it forms identity, architectural & emotional landscapes as metaphors for human experience

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

Place, memory, how it builds our identity and sense of belonging- all topics I’m working with in my practice through the metaphor of architectural and emotional landscape.

Painting of a pink full moon in a dusky blue sky over the sea

#PinkMoon Over Water"
by Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #FullMoon #SuperMoon

Sometimes you just need to stop and fill up on something calm and beautiful.

Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., and the release was contained, the pipeline’s operator said.

The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.

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Your visit to a national park boosts local economies by supporting jobs and generating wages. In 2023, a total of 325 million national parks visitors spent an estimated $26.4 billion — the most in a decade. usafacts.org/articles/how...

This list of words negates conversations and any work of government at all. It is 2025 not 1915 - we need to react to this and if I could I would project them on our government buildings with projection mapping.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#internationalwomensday

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We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

I went for a Dr visit yesterday for travel
Documents. Also needed a tetanus shot too as it’s been a while. Insurance wouldn’t cover it because the visit was for travel purposes 🤬

Reading various things on contemporary art and land pedagogy- all I keep thinking is we are in a moment where the universe is forcing a reckoning of realizations about interconnectivity and the breakdown of the idea of the binary. This lack of definition is what seems to scare most people.

Just signed up - as an artist and photographer looking forward to having another option other than IG. Thanks @flashes.blue team!

Wednesday morning chuckle.

Thank you Andy! You are appreciated!

On Point Let's make sense of the world – together. From the economy and health care to politics and the environment – and so much more – On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with newsmakers and real people ...

Thank you Meghna Chakrabarti & On Point for making me smile last night “what can a divided country agree on? Car Headlights are too bright!” Worth listening to 😄https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary:

"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."

BOOM!

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Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.

In my pursuit of distraction from the fall of America- found a great article in the NYT today www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

All of this is unconstitutional and as someone 1/2 through graduate school I’m very concerned about this.

WIRED has been downright exceptional in covering this carnage.

Internationale Herdenkingsdag voor de Holocaust. Op 27 januari 1945 werd het concentratiekampcomplex Auschwitz-Birkenau bevrijd door het Rode Leger #neveragain #NoPasaran

Waiting for the low UV days of winter to pass to return to my cyanotype on clay work - yes, UV lights work
But there is something about working with the sun. “Shifting Memories no.7” 2024 #cyanotype #ceramicsculpture #alternativephoto #contemporaryart #fromtheartiststudio

Feels like a good time to remind everyone that if you are a public servant wishing to report retaliation, acts of corruption or abuse of government power, I have a page for that on my website: www.wyden.senate.gov/whistleblowe...