Alexandra Blaison
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I wrote an essay on the Politics of Play. If you’d like to read it, it’s available on my Substack, The Paper Drop. Link in bio ➰
Who is being portrayed here: the seated figure, the sculpture, their relationship, or the process of sculpting as it relates to painting?
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
January 13, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Who is being portrayed here: the seated figure, the sculpture, their relationship, or the process of sculpting as it relates to painting?
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
— Beckett, Endgame ➰
— Beckett, Endgame ➰
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
— Beckett, Endgame ➰
— Beckett, Endgame ➰
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
The dawn, even when it is cold and melancholy, never fails to shoot through my limbs as with arrows of sparkling piercing ice.
I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through.
Virginia Woolf
I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through.
Virginia Woolf
January 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
The dawn, even when it is cold and melancholy, never fails to shoot through my limbs as with arrows of sparkling piercing ice.
I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through.
Virginia Woolf
I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through.
Virginia Woolf
From Prometheus by Edwin Muir
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
From Prometheus by Edwin Muir
I’m drawn to the way Richter deliberately borrows qualities usually dismissed as photographic errors, such as soft focus or awkward cropping. Not only does he reframe the concept of “error,” but he also reframes what he asks us to see. The body appears both present and elusive, close and distant. 🤍
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I’m drawn to the way Richter deliberately borrows qualities usually dismissed as photographic errors, such as soft focus or awkward cropping. Not only does he reframe the concept of “error,” but he also reframes what he asks us to see. The body appears both present and elusive, close and distant. 🤍
I wrote an essay on the Politics of Play. If you’d like to read it, it’s available on my Substack, The Paper Drop. Link in bio ➰
January 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I wrote an essay on the Politics of Play. If you’d like to read it, it’s available on my Substack, The Paper Drop. Link in bio ➰
If only one could be the body through which today’s thoughts and feelings flow.
- Edvard Munch
- Edvard Munch
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If only one could be the body through which today’s thoughts and feelings flow.
- Edvard Munch
- Edvard Munch
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
Joseph Cornell longed for Paris, but ultimately never visited. A new devotional exhibition curated by Wes Anderson and Jasper Sharp recreates the late artist’s workspace at Gagosian gallery’s storefront in the city of love.
Wes Anderson Brings Joseph Cornell’s Studio to Life
The whimsical filmmaker recreated the Queens artist's home studio at Gagosian Gallery in Paris, the city Cornell longed for but never visited.
hyperallergic.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Joseph Cornell longed for Paris, but ultimately never visited. A new devotional exhibition curated by Wes Anderson and Jasper Sharp recreates the late artist’s workspace at Gagosian gallery’s storefront in the city of love.
Question in a Field by Louise Bogan
December 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Question in a Field by Louise Bogan
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
Infanta Margarita In a Blue Dress 1659
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Infanta Margarita In a Blue Dress 1659
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
A Swan, about 1270
(Franco-Flemish The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 41)
(Franco-Flemish The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 41)
December 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A Swan, about 1270
(Franco-Flemish The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 41)
(Franco-Flemish The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 41)
From To Tell of Bodies Changed by Jana Prikryl ➰
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
From To Tell of Bodies Changed by Jana Prikryl ➰
Georgia Gardner Gray, The Christmas Party (2025).
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Georgia Gardner Gray, The Christmas Party (2025).
Moon by Bernadette Van-Huy
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Moon by Bernadette Van-Huy
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
Young lady with black velvet-covered waste-paper bin on head (srsly!) & bizarrely asymmetrical eyes. Painted by Petrus Christus, 1460s.
December 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Young lady with black velvet-covered waste-paper bin on head (srsly!) & bizarrely asymmetrical eyes. Painted by Petrus Christus, 1460s.
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
Djanira da Motta e Silva’s Self-Portrait (1945) 💙
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Djanira da Motta e Silva’s Self-Portrait (1945) 💙
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 🐦⬛
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 🐦⬛
Magnificent exploration of a single colour by František Kupka. His haunting gaze confronts us from his armchair. Dressed in a yellow gown, a yellow-bound book on his lap, the painter depicts himself with a half-smoked cigarette in hand, all enveloped in yellow hues from bright lemon to saffron. 💛
December 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Magnificent exploration of a single colour by František Kupka. His haunting gaze confronts us from his armchair. Dressed in a yellow gown, a yellow-bound book on his lap, the painter depicts himself with a half-smoked cigarette in hand, all enveloped in yellow hues from bright lemon to saffron. 💛
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
Barthes, Camera Lucida
midnight traipse
Barthes, Camera Lucida
midnight traipse
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
Barthes, Camera Lucida
midnight traipse
Barthes, Camera Lucida
midnight traipse
Reposted by Alexandra Blaison
To detach yourself elegantly from the world; to give contour and grace to sadness; a solitude in style; a walk that gives cadence to memories; stepping towards the intangible; with the breath in the trembling margins of things;
Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
To detach yourself elegantly from the world; to give contour and grace to sadness; a solitude in style; a walk that gives cadence to memories; stepping towards the intangible; with the breath in the trembling margins of things;
Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran