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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 19h

happy birthday, June! hope the party's redonkulous 🎂🐴

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 15d

his entire routine is getting chased around the arena by bull fursuiters with red rubber sleepsacks in tow. it always ends the same way and the crowd goes absolutely buckwild every time!

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 17d

they've been so fun to make! there's something very uncanny with how they seem to half assemble themselves. it's less about making active creative decisions than just playing around and finding where pieces seem to naturally align.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 18d

yesss, distortion is so fun to mess around with! I love the uncanniness i adds to my pictures, making them feel like shimmery mirages or funhouse mirrors, etc.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 18d

'don't look back in anger', collage on paper, 2025

a seething cartoon wolf stares into a pool of rippling water in the foreground; in the background, storm clouds gather and an apocalyptic deluge of water cascades from the sky.

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 21d

I'm proud to announce the Koko the Gorilla Data Foundation, which tracks individuals who disrespect the memory of Koko to teach them a very important lesson.

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Auryn @lordpook.bsky.social · 26d

Eileen Townsend's review of Room Party is out now in Artillery Magazine! Eileen isn't a furry, but she is my bff, and she really, really GETS IT.

Featuring @attyboy.bsky.social @flausch.bsky.social @scribblechicken.bsky.social @zubrovich.bsky.social @julianahuxtable.bsky.social @elfboys.com & more!

FURRY ARTISTS WILL REMAKE THE WORLD - Artillery Magazine

artillerymag.com

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 27d

apologies for the late reply + thank you for the kind words, that means so much. I am all about finding the terror in the sublime, and vice versa! whatever gives the viewer goosebumps for reasons they can’t quite place.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 27d

thank you Ash!! it’s been so invigorating working with images in this direct way, without another medium mediating it. def something I’ll be continuing

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 27d

thanks Critter, more in this vein coming soon :03

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 27d

I thought you’d might appreciate this sort of uncanny!

flor @barkestra.bsky.social · 29d

watching centrist pols and commentators whitewash Charlie Kirk's career:

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 10

'chat piles', collage on paper, 2025

a chat pile erupts like a volcano, pouring molten lead down its slope. in the path is a figure that seems to be in the midst of evaporating or disintegrating, and nonsensical furniture. the background features more torrents of oozing metal and another erupting pile.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 8

that last point is what separates the true fashionistas from the mere poseurs! if you're not blushing bright enough to match your eye-catching technicolor fit, what are you even doing 🤡💅

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 8

understandable, everybody has cons like that now and then. it's hard not to see the crowds milling about and get in your own head on how exactly you fit into it all.

would've loved to have perceived you but didn't get the chance! you're real and you're real good!

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 6

I would love that!

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m at Furry Migration btw!

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scribblechicken 🌫️ @scribblechicken.bsky.social · Sep 5

meeting in the forest

Two blue pooltoy angels are face to face in a birch forest. They are obscured by several many trees in the foreground. The forest is very dense.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’ve really taken to it! don’t seem to get art blocked with collage the way I do with other media. things just click into place bit by bit like puzzle pieces.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 5

me too! excited to explore more in this vein, it ties up a lot of disparate interests and loose threads in my work in ways I hadn’t foreseen.

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 5

thank you! this was pretty free-associative, comprised of what are essentially old printer tests. I'm just glad it all came together and gelled as well as it did!

flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 4

'inescapism', collage on paper, 2025

a collage features a group of anthropomorphic animals engaging in raucous poolside horseplay- in the background, a tornado whirls closer and closer, turning day into night and lofting large objects and debris toward the foreground

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 4

☝️🤓

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flor @barkestra.bsky.social · Sep 4

counterpoint: it’s the perfect excuse to eat unlimited soup and ice cream for like a full week

(good luck, hope it goes well!)

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