I have always enjoyed flower painting and here's a couple of older ones from the '80s, sold a long time ago. These images were scanned from film photos taken by me before they were sold. These would all have been picked from my garden.
#art #botanical #stilllife #flowers

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

if artpop has a million fans, i am one of them. if artpop has 5 fans, i am one of them. if artpop has 1 fan, that one is me. if artpop has no fans, then i am no longer alive. if the world is against artpop, i am against the entire world. til my last breath, i’ll support artpop.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

I wrote this on one of the darkest days of my life. It gave me an anchor to hold onto.

Just so we’re clear:
1. Audiobooks count
2. Reading is political
3. The orange man is a piece of 💩

Thanks for stopping by 💃

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

Black Americans watching everyone else finally get scared:

Going over to X now feels like having to check the mold infestation in your basement.