After years of observing these caddisfly larvae, French naturalist and artist, Hubert Duprat, wondered if the caddis flies would use any materials to build their cocoon. He introduced flakes of gold, pearls and opals to the caddis flies and they did in fact use them for their cocoons. They use their own silk as the glue to hold their pupal constructions together.
Hyman Bloom (Latvian, 1913-2009) - Seance (ca. 1950)
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
“The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape other than that in which it was born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman and the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Like the monster, I am too often perceived as less than fully human due to the means of my embodiment; like the monster’s as well, my exclusion from human community fuels a deep and abiding rage in me that I, like the monster, direct against the conditions in which I must struggle to exist. …You [the reader] are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.”
— Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”
Storm hits the Ricasoli Breakwater Lighthouse in Valletta, Malta. 24 February, 2019, by Kurt Arrigo
Old sketch found buried in desk mess.
Aquiline noses of all kinds, you will always be my favourites ❤️🔥
Zhu Yingchun, The Language of Bugs, 2017
lots of requests for more arcane art so i will oblige
but if I sleep that means I have to go to work…. But I need to sleep cause I’m going to work but if I go to sleep that means I have to go to work… and if I’m going to work I need to sleep but if I sleep now I’ll have to go to work
Óscar Murillo.
WE ARE READYYYYYYY and also terrified
“are we still… sisters?”
season 1 // season 2
writer of the "trying too hard" kind. sometimes I make art. here to indulge in nerdy stuff. Also on Instagram
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