In autumn, ensorcelled knights dream of death pale kings et al
... but what dreams may come if a faery’s child catches them in spring?
We get to the bottom of it, in our 12th #darkspringtide tale, from the hills of Hesse.
🎨 Frank Cadogan Cowper
Night Light: My Puppet among the Darkness in My Bedroom
Night Light: My Puppet among the Darkness in My Bedroom
Thinking about how you make a big thing with small bits of unconnected time. Some anxiety here about starting again every time, but not moving it along. Probably that's not a useful way to think about it.
Anne Gwynne strikes a... weird pose in a sarong while the rest of the cast look worried.
Starring Lon Chaney Jr - Weird Woman - Released on this day in 1944
"Adobe, the world's most hated, convoluted and extractivist quasi-monopoly..." From Tito Steyerl's Medium Hot Images in the Age of Heat.
Thinking about the similarity between these two figures from Titian. Ariadne is like a spinning top. Actaeon is turning. I always think about movement and composition in paintings two dimensionally (not good probably). This has got me thinking about movement into the picture space.
“...the best artwork an artist should do should also be the cheapest.”
From A brush with...: A brush with... Danh Vo, 4 Mar 2026
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Looking at this painting today
Painting day today. I've probably activated late-stage noodling too soon. I always do that. Sigh.
Losing patience with this one.
Excited by this one.
Neil Jordan (with scenes from his film "The Company of Wolves") - BOTD
As a young painter I thought, What kind of painter am I? As an old painter I think, Why am I doing this?
An opening or a continued problem.
From Plan for a Journal by Italo Calvino;
major functions:
laughter
terror (false function: crying)
journey—adventure—initiation—disorientation
Eros
the obscene
aggression—violence—hatred
riddle
reintegration of justice—reparation for a wrong—redemption—metamorphosis that establishes a new order
