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Gunny T Shepherd, a graymuzzled German Shepherd Dog in a tiger kigu, with a pack of their own. Apparently intimidating but actually cuddlesome. Truth, Honor, Integrity. This account is NSFW. Everyone is welcome here. He / Him / His

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Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · Dec 1

My BSKY is fairly asynchronous: Things get posted when they get posted, so this account has a strong Time Is Just A Construct vibe.

While most social media platforms want you to post as things happen, I’m very bad at that. When you see a post, it’s more likely that it DIDN’T just occur.

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Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 20h

Photos from @nayland.blake.bsky.social’s new installation at Matthew Marks Gallery. I really liked this work that doubles up on sex and BDSM as therapy. #art #NYC

A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows an orange plastic sign with the word “SESSION” in a black, sans-serif font set into a metal frame that is open at the top. The edges of the word looks distressed, as if it has been rubbed off some over time. Set into the left of metal frame is a smaller piece of rectangular metal with the word “IN” painted on in orange. The piece is arranged so that the words together read “IN SESSION“. The piece has a piece of chain hanging from the top and partially obscuring the word “IN.” That whole assembly is mounted on lightly rusted chain-link behind which is a heavy, quilted canvas fabric in black. All the elements of the photo are shown in shallow perspective, such that the sign’s right edge is larger, and seems closer to the viewer, then the left edge.

A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows two door mats on either side of a door frame, seen from directly above. The doormats are both made of cocoa fiber, and are in their natural brownish tan color. One doormat has the word “COME” in the center, while the other one has the word “GO” in the center. Both words are in black, and there is an offset black line border around the edge of the mat. The mats are placed so that the words would be upright and readable when you enter the doorway. On the right, the photo shows the door which is covered in a black quilted canvas moving cloth, with an orange border. The door jam is visible on both the left and right of the photo. The background of the photo is the concrete floor.

A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows a stark white room with a concrete floor. In the room, is a metal chain hung on the wall with various items hung from it, and a couch-like item in the middle of the room. The chain on the wall in the back has a gentle, drooping curve to it. The couch-like piece of furniture in the middle of the room is covered in black leather. At the head of the couch, where one’s head might rest, is a mirror and a professional-looking microphone on a small, adjustable boom. At the left corner of the couch nearest the viewer, is a vertical pole that ends in a crook at the top. from the pool is hung a sign that says “I betrayed…” Also hung from the pole are multiple shiny metal cans each with a tag and a long piece of black ribbon. Each of the tags complete the sentence that began with “I betrayed” with a noun, such as “my family.“ In the place where a decorative skirt might have surrounded the couch, is a metal chain attached at various points to the couch’s frame.

A color photo of a part of Nayland Blake’s installation, Session, 2025. The photo shows a stark white wall, in front of which is a mask that would cover the wearers face across the eyes. The mask has a strap to go around the back of the head, eye holes, and ears that are in the shape of a hare’s. The mask features metal studs that are attached to the mask by flat Phillips head screws. The studs are all conical points that are attached to such that they point in towards the wearer of the mask.

Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 22h

Very much so!

Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 23h

Like with Gonzalez-Torres’ piece, I’m more familiar with Robert Gober’s lifelike sculptures and less with this work. The window through a diaper with questionable stains into a bright, domestic but also quotidian wallpaper is a pretty interesting to me.

Go visit to see all the works!

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Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 23h

Likewise, I’m familiar, as many are, with Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “portraits” in piles of candy, but less so with this series. For me, it works as a portrait of an era: Princess Di, Oliver North, AIDS and Patient Zero juxtaposed with Jesse Helms, Kurt Waldheim, and other cultural touchstones. 🧵3/4

Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 23h

I’m enamored of @naylandblake.bsky.social’s inclusion of Joseph Cornell‘s Untitled (Aviary) in their curated show. I’ve long admired Cornell’s work, but had never seen this. I’m a sucker for a good reveal, and this piece forces us to take time with it to be able to discover what’s inside. 🧵2/4

Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 23h

In “Inside” at Matthew Marks Gallery, @naylandblake.bsky.social curates pieces they “wanted to be in the presence of, to wander inside of, to refresh my eyes and mind with…things [that] are made, not manufactured,” and made them rethink possibilities in their own art. #nyc #art

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A color photo of Joseph Cornell‘s untitled work. The photo shows a rectangular, blue-gray wooden box, stood up on its short end. The front of the box is covered in glass, and there are various pieces of wood in the front painted white, but showing the wood grain through the paint. There is a vertical slice of mirror glued to the back interior, which reveals the presence of a taxidermied bird hidden behind the main piece of wood on the front, along with some indistinguishable text in a serif font at the top.

A color photo of Robert Gober’s Stained Diaper on Wallpaper, 1979–2017. The photo shows an assemblage inside a plain, deep white frame. The back of the assemblage is a piece of wallpaper that has a repeating pattern of a road going over hills under a blue sky with white clouds done in a watercolor style in front of the wallpaper, his a couple layers of cloth cut into a square. The cloth is stained with what seems to be black ink at top, and then a dark, rusty brown red stain on the bottom. The square cloth also has a square cut out in the middle.

A color photo of Felix Gonzales-Torres’ Untitled, 1988 which consists of a black square in a black frame with the words, Diana, Princess, North, Zero, Oliver, Patient, on one line and the words Helms, Disco, Waldheim, Bag, Pope, Poppers, Tut on a second line. The words are all in white, in an italicized serif font with no punctuation.

A color photo of an installation view of Betye Saar’s Final Vooyage, 2024. The piece consists of a rectangular wooden box with a hinged lid set on its short side so that it opens like a book. Inside the cover of the box is paper with a diagrammatic layout of black slaves in a ship’s hold during the time of the slave trade. Inside the box is a blue background on paper with a model of a tall ship in full sail on a small dias. The ship is reminiscent of both the kind that discovered America as well as the ships that brought the slaves.

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Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 4d

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