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#Flyday
#CrittersThatFly
#eastcoastkin

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📸Martina Olivia, UK

"European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): The "Robin Redbreast" was given its nickname long before a distinction was made in the English language between "Red" & "Orange". Superb photo taken by Martina Olivia of this fluffy Robin taken in the UK."

November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Zac Lindsey

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A fabulous #Maya #ceramic bowl. The puffed cheeks, the closed eyes, the content smile—I love it.
Cute was an intentional aesthetic and this piece shows a playful side of indigenous Americans that we are told didn’t exist. From the Cancun Maya Museum.
#ancientamericas #mayanwarrior #archaeology 🏺

November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My sculpture:

“Painted Faces”
volcanic rock
2025

#sculpture #sculpturesky
#stonesculpture #figurativeart
#art #fineart #womensartsky #artcritics #oc #news #FF

November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My Work:
“Art Is The Bourne Of Rivers”
Mixed media: oil pastel, mica, graphite, cut-outs.
2025
13“ x 15 1/2“
Sherburn LaBelle

#news #fineart #artistsbluesky
#contemporaryart #oc
#assemblage #womensartsky
#mixedmediaart #artcritics #collageartsky #womenartists #oilpastels

October 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My work:

"Aphrodite"
Sherburn Labelle
2024 -collage paper, acrylic ,cutouts
Artist- Sherburn LaBelle

#abstractart
#fineart #artistsbluesky
#contemporaryart #oc
#womensartsky
#mixedmediaart #artcritics #collageartsky

November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™

@trahias.bsky.social

Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883–1957)
"Rain in Shinagawa", 1931.
Woodblock Print, 39.5 × 26.4 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM

Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

Just announced, Lady Gaga's song "Abracadabra" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2026 Grammy Awards!

Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Saturday Night Live/2025)

YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO

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November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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Michael

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Autorretrato con monos (Self-Portrait with Monkeys) by Frida Kahlo (Mexican) - Oil on canvas / 1943 - Gelman Collection of Mexican Art (Mexico City, Mexico) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomenArtists #arte #art #artText #BlueskyArt #pintura #MexicanArt #Monkeys #Symbolism #FridaKahlo #Kahlo

Inspirational Mexican artist Frida Kahlo appears frontally, filling the frame from chest up against a dense curtain of glossy green leaves that press forward like a living wall. Her warm brown skin, direct dark gaze, and almost-joined brows are rendered with meticulous clarity, framed by sleekly braided black hair threaded with pale ribbons. A crisp white blouse lifts her figure out of the foliage, while four spider monkeys cluster intimately around her (two at her shoulders, one peering over her left side, another tugging near her neck). Their dark fur, slender fingers, and bright black eyes encircle her without fully eclipsing her self-possessed presence. The structure around her shoulders and the monkeys’ paws, suggesting a fragile tether between artist, animals, and jungle. The space is shallow, quiet, and airless, heightening the feeling that we have stepped into her private, watchful world.

Painted in 1943, when Kahlo’s health was deteriorating yet her fame was rising, this self-portrait turns her animal companions into complex emblems of care, control, and self-mythology. The monkeys were actually real gifts from friends and from Diego Rivera. They had appeared as playful familiars in other works, but here their closeness reads more ambivalent: affectionate guardians who also clutch and claim her, echoing how love, public attention, and nationalist expectations pressed in on her life.

The luxuriant foliage situates her within an idealized, Indigenous-inflected Mexicanidad, while the looping vines hint at both rootedness and constraint, echoing her experience of chronic pain, medical harnesses, and life increasingly confined to Casa Azul (aka the “Blue House” which was Kahlo’s cobalt-blue home in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City and now the Frida Kahlo Museum). Her unwavering gaze refuses victimhood; instead she stages herself as author and icon, using the monkeys and jungle not as decoration but as proof of autonomy, vulnerability, and power.

November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

Sufi Dance & Music. Whirling Gypsy Dance.

Sufi music-whirling-gypsy-dance-Abysis Projects

YouTube video by devapath

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November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM

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Somnium Scipionis

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Sufi whirling dervishes.
#Sufi
Sufi dance - whirling dervishes are performed counterclockwise. They depict the planets around the Sun, unity with the Universe and God.

History 🔜
www.historytoday.com/archive/whir...
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Whirling derwishes #Sufi #суфизм #кружение суфиев

YouTube video by Космический

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August 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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Scientific American

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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers

There’s a Monumental Cosmic Map Hidden beneath Mexico’s Oldest Maya Site

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers

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November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My sculpture:

Yes (?)
Petrified-wood, obsidian, broken elastic.
2025
Size: 20 1/2” H

~The title asks you to listen closely to the nuances & often unsaid narratives of women.

#sculpture #sculpturesky
#stonesculpture #figurativeart
#art #fineart #womensartsky #artcritics #oc #news #FF

November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM

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Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My Work 2025:
“Woman With A Heavy Load”
assembled desert stone
30” H
Sculptor, Sherburn LaBelle

#sculpture #sculpturesky #art #womenartists
#fineart #contemporaryart #womensartsky #artcritics #abstractsculpture
#blueskyart
#oc

October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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Eli~The Craft Roam

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I love being surprised when finding really different and cool forms of art here. This qualifies!!
#repost3aday #supportartists #glass #fusedglass #artyear #eastcoastkin #fullmoon #waterfall #inspiredbynature #getoutthere #onlybeautifulthings

Wil Freeborn @freeborn.bsky.social · 5d

Full moon tonight, a small fused glass test piece based on this view. I’m hoping to a larger version soon

Holding a small piece of glass artwork in front of a coastal view at night, hill with lots of building lights with a full moon in the night sky

November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My Work:

“Intangible Visitation”
life size deer
tufa stone & bone
Artist: Sherburn LaBelle

#sculpture #sculpturesky
#art #womenartists
#fineart #womensartsky #artcritics #oc #news

November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM

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Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My sculpture:

“Uttered Silence” 2025
Volcanic rock & black conte crayon.
Artist:Sherburn LaBelle

#sculpture #sculpturesky #art #artistsky #fineart
#abstractsculpture #figurativesculpture #womemsart #news #oc

November 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM

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Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

@yampapath.bsky.social

My Work:
“Flash” hummingbird
Oil pastels & graphite over acrylics.
Artist: Sherburn LaBelle

#art #artistsky #fineart #contemporaryart#abstractsculpture #oilpastel #birds #hummingbird

October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Sherburn LaBelle, sculptor

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“Keep Coming Back: Lost In Translation" 2025
block-prints, amber-mica, popsicle sticks, acrylic, cut-outs, black ink.
Artist: Sherburn LaBelle

#art #artistsky #fineart #contemporaryart#abstractsculpture #collage #birds #mica

October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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richard mortimer

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Orchard by Gustav Klimt, Leopold
Museum, Vienna
#TreesOnTuesday

November 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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D A B⚡️

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#ElectricGuitarForAll
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

Dire Straits - Walk of Life (UK Version)

Dire Straits - Walk of Life (UK Version)

YouTube video by DireStraitsVEVO

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November 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt

Photo of s totem pole with symbolic animal carvings in an outdoor setting with trees behind

November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM

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Dr Crom

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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Ariadne on Naxos' by Joseph Edward Southall, 1925 (Birmingham Museums Trust: 1948P3).

Link - artuk.org/discover/art...

#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺