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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · May 2

I should pop in here more often, Liz. Yes, enjoyment is something you won't find on Twitter. It's a hell scape. Don't know why I stay on there.🫣

Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · May 2

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · May 2

Yes, I sketched her. I once posted it on Twitter, but have since taken all my art and photos down.

Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · May 2

Yes, this Batavia in the photo, is a Cape Malay restaurant. Delicious food!

Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · May 2

Batavia is what the Dutch East Indies Company called Jakarta (the capitol of Indonesia). The Cape Malay people came to SA on Dutch ships as slaves from Indonesia, Malaysia & the East Indies. They now speak a beautiful rich Afrikaans and also English like the rest of South Africans do.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · Feb 11

“The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps … so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, thrash, or thunder in.” ~ Dylan Thomas

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Feb 10

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 22

Sculpture by Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe.

Exhibition: "On Beauty (With Apology to Umberto Eco)"

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 19

"For Paul Celan (2001-5)"
~ Anselm Kiefer.

"Before your late night face, passing
solitary
between
nights that reshaped me too,
something came to stand there
that was already with us once before, un-
moved by thought."

~ Paul Celan

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 19

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

A. Schopenhauer.

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 18

"Strong Breeze" (2023)

* Graphite on matte photo paper

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 18

"Earth Angel"

* Graphite

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · Jan 18

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 18

As far as I know Tom Waits went insane, skated on her name and, by tracing it twice, he fell through the ice of Alice.

As of yet, no trace of Alice ...

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · Jan 17

David Lynch.

Factory photographs.

“The factories that I love, are black-and-white experiences. Colour putrefies them. I really love the oil-impregnated earth, gleaming with black oil; steel and brick, and glass and these machines, and the smoke and fire. An amazing, phenomenal thing.”

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 14

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 14

"Sunlight" (2021)
* graphite

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · Jan 8

Had the good fortune just now to be actually and wholly and briefly alone in a room of Van Goghs. And then mostly alone, and feeling his nervous system. Thanks to LCC and National Gallery

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 14

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Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩‍🎨 @nenazhivina.com · Jan 5

“What do you think?” 😂

#art #humor #vangogh #cunkonearth

Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 14

On the road between Loeriesfontein and Calvinia in the Hantam region, Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 13

Cape Town Contrasts.

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 13

Johan Rockstrom of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: "We have now experienced the first taste of a 1.5 C world, which has cost people and the global economy unprecedented suffering and economic costs ..."
www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...

2024 hottest recorded year, crossed global warming limit

Excess heat is supercharging extreme weather, and 2024 saw countries all over the world suffer disasters that cost more than $300 billion.

www.japantimes.co.jp

Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 13

Some photos I took of animals.

1) Cape dwarf chameleon drinking water (male)
2) Chacma baboon mother & baby - Franschhoek Mountains
3) Female ostrich - Stellenbosch
4) Blue headed male agama (lizard)

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Jan 12

Although the basic information re apartheid South Africa in this article is accurate it could've benefited by better structuring of information. Also note that the South African Border War (1966-1989) was in effect over by the time Musk graduated high school. He wouldn't have been conscripted.

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Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social · Dec 27

The beautiful and vibrant Bo-Kaap, Cape Town. Previously known as the Malay Quarter, it was established in 1760.

Here you'll find narrow cobbled stone streets & colorful houses built on the slopes of Singnal Hill. Cape Malay culture is present at all the sites and restaurants.

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