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Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 1d

my TARDIS is enormous on the outside and the door just doesn't open

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 1d

scrolling through old stuff

untitled (banyan dude!), January '23, colored pencil

a man whose waist is banyan roots and hands leafy branches

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 1d

design with nature, live with style

the Home Depot googly eye cactus slogan is right. wait wh--

a tray of cacti to which an employee has affixed googly eyes

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 1d

2+ months in and people are still visibly confused by the bus route retangling. sucks, man.

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 1d

hellhounds at the depot

Home Depot floor display of skellingtons and reapers and such surrounded by cute dogs holding their own puppies' leashes in their mouths

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 1d

it would appear that instead of controlling the spider mites I've been breeding a race of Uruk-Mites, so have notched up on the toxicity scale to ⬇️ here

my range of pesticides, from organic neem oil extract at left, to a premixed neem oil spray, to "insecticidal super soap" and then a kill-on-contact "insect killer"

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

maybe what I perceive as mistakes and how I choose to correct them will illuminate more than, like, self-symbology

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

I think I know what to do with alt text for my drawings going forward: unlike detailing actual images as caught on camera, I'd been wrangling an inherently non-verbal work into words, and at that filtered through my own hangups and emphases.

I will from now describe mistakes, damages and repairs.

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

finally triangulated the bestest as-you-enter spot on the wall for my brother's brilliant painting

it's called "Stop It, You're Killing Me" and hot damn it's not even his best

the cardboard boxes against that wall are all art supplies and found materials, there's the bookshelf too, and a mahogany rocking elephant

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

there exist languages that, by simply speaking, encode how a person came to think, know and then report a piece of information

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

qualified: yea absolutely, just not in any way that aligns with the sentiment

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

no

Israel-Gaza: two years on
US
Polls and politics point to a sea change in US views on Israel. Will it matter?

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

(quickly devolves to grammarian infighting over definitions of "polysynthetic" good lord we're still here)

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

had a coupla drinks with lunch so ima study the typology of Salish evidentials

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

incandescent loony clouds last night

full moon through bright silvered clouds seen from my balcony

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

reset the workspace

my tilt-top table with sharpener and jar of instruments, my watch hanging from the neck of the lamp, another lamp hung with twine from the ceiling tied back to the wall where nails hold my rulers and compass; my old trunk of art supplies; my window garden of avocado trees and ornamental sweet potatoes

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

spider friend casting silk and clambering up n away from one of my avocado's new leaves

same as post text for all photos, spider friend casting silk and clambering up n away from one of my avocado's new leaves

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

and others

instagram notifications, last 7 days
"Follow suggestions: Ashley Kelly, dicks.and.butts and others 2d"

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 2d

"Swing Shift"
27x19.5cm, colored pencil on watercolor paper

a figure has just passed through

(I'm bad at this, every description is biased and I don't know what to make explicit and what would be condescending to make explicit like "he's carrying a key and the door is clearly designed to look like a front door to a home, there's a peephole and everything, and let's not forget the title, surely that casts a certain light like did you SEE that he's wearing a NAMETAG when there's abstract STUFF everywhere else relating to sunrise, or sunset?? and it's deliberate obviously but how do I let those words hang together the way they do on canvas yknow?)

a figure has just passed through his front door from night into day, the only barrier between them, amid a flat landscape dotted with (and do I call them "mounds" cuz "anthill" captures the size and shape but there ARE NO ANTS and I don't want to imply there ARE)

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 3d

hahaha

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 3d

finishing this drawing out of spite. spitistry.

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 3d

remains

abandoned lot along the nearby frontage road where stand a rusted swingset skeleton and a twisted dead tree beyond a green gate chained shut over a puddled driveway

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Your good friend, Chris Normal @heythatsmyleg.bsky.social · 4d

I dunno man, if there was a weird half skinned guy in my attic saying "oouuugh you gotta kill people to make me whole" I don't reckon I would. I would say "no man"

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 3d

autumn achieved

39yo man wearing plaid flannel and dad-blue denim photographing himself in the bathroom mirror. full of himself on this look, a bit. feelin crisp. feelin fresh.

Mr& @mrampersand.bsky.social · 3d

keeping my diet diverse

three boxes of treats from Trader Joe's, dark chocolate espresso beans, dark chocolate peanut butter cups, dark chocolate almonds