Alexandra Blaison
@alexandrabl.bsky.social
Who is being portrayed here: the seated figure, the sculpture, their relationship, or the process of sculpting as it relates to painting?
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
January 13, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Who is being portrayed here: the seated figure, the sculpture, their relationship, or the process of sculpting as it relates to painting?
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
Lenz Geerk, Sculptor, 2023
#art
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
From Prometheus by Edwin Muir
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
From Prometheus by Edwin Muir
I’m drawn to the way Richter deliberately borrows qualities usually dismissed as photographic errors, such as soft focus or awkward cropping. Not only does he reframe the concept of “error,” but he also reframes what he asks us to see. The body appears both present and elusive, close and distant. 🤍
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I’m drawn to the way Richter deliberately borrows qualities usually dismissed as photographic errors, such as soft focus or awkward cropping. Not only does he reframe the concept of “error,” but he also reframes what he asks us to see. The body appears both present and elusive, close and distant. 🤍
I wrote an essay on the Politics of Play. If you’d like to read it, it’s available on my Substack, The Paper Drop. Link in bio ➰
January 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I wrote an essay on the Politics of Play. If you’d like to read it, it’s available on my Substack, The Paper Drop. Link in bio ➰
If only one could be the body through which today’s thoughts and feelings flow.
- Edvard Munch
- Edvard Munch
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If only one could be the body through which today’s thoughts and feelings flow.
- Edvard Munch
- Edvard Munch
Question in a Field by Louise Bogan
December 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Question in a Field by Louise Bogan
From To Tell of Bodies Changed by Jana Prikryl ➰
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
From To Tell of Bodies Changed by Jana Prikryl ➰
Georgia Gardner Gray, The Christmas Party (2025).
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Georgia Gardner Gray, The Christmas Party (2025).
Moon by Bernadette Van-Huy
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Moon by Bernadette Van-Huy
Djanira da Motta e Silva’s Self-Portrait (1945) 💙
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Djanira da Motta e Silva’s Self-Portrait (1945) 💙
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
(More on The Paper Drop-link in bio)
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 🐦⬛
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 🐦⬛
Magnificent exploration of a single colour by František Kupka. His haunting gaze confronts us from his armchair. Dressed in a yellow gown, a yellow-bound book on his lap, the painter depicts himself with a half-smoked cigarette in hand, all enveloped in yellow hues from bright lemon to saffron. 💛
December 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Magnificent exploration of a single colour by František Kupka. His haunting gaze confronts us from his armchair. Dressed in a yellow gown, a yellow-bound book on his lap, the painter depicts himself with a half-smoked cigarette in hand, all enveloped in yellow hues from bright lemon to saffron. 💛
from LOVE POEM WITHOUT A DROP OF HYPERBOLE IN IT By Traci Brimhall
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
from LOVE POEM WITHOUT A DROP OF HYPERBOLE IN IT By Traci Brimhall
Should you care to read on Gerhard Richter, I did put a few thoughts down on the subject. For those of you in Paris, his retrospective opens tomorrow at the Fondation Vuitton.
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/on-gerhard...
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/on-gerhard...
October 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Should you care to read on Gerhard Richter, I did put a few thoughts down on the subject. For those of you in Paris, his retrospective opens tomorrow at the Fondation Vuitton.
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/on-gerhard...
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/on-gerhard...
In 1975, Richter depicted the duo Gilbert and George from a series of multiple exposure photographs of the artists. The works achieved a striking sense of motion and atmospheric blur, challenging the belief that such effects could be obtained from oil on canvas.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In 1975, Richter depicted the duo Gilbert and George from a series of multiple exposure photographs of the artists. The works achieved a striking sense of motion and atmospheric blur, challenging the belief that such effects could be obtained from oil on canvas.
Raúl Zurita, translated by Anna Deeny
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Raúl Zurita, translated by Anna Deeny
Jean Tinguely & Eugène lonesco, Drawing made with a Meta-matic (1959)
October 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Jean Tinguely & Eugène lonesco, Drawing made with a Meta-matic (1959)
I wrote some reflections on Verdi’s Aida and Shirin Neshat’s political remaking of the opera that you can read here bit.ly/4nT2UVs on The Paper Drop ➰
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wrote some reflections on Verdi’s Aida and Shirin Neshat’s political remaking of the opera that you can read here bit.ly/4nT2UVs on The Paper Drop ➰
Some thoughts I've written on ‘Alberto Giacometti and the Existentialists’ that you can read here
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/alberto-gi...
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/alberto-gi...
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some thoughts I've written on ‘Alberto Giacometti and the Existentialists’ that you can read here
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/alberto-gi...
thepaperdrop.substack.com/p/alberto-gi...
“Someday our bodies will no longer matter,
and we will leave them in our sleep, to travel easily.”➰
and we will leave them in our sleep, to travel easily.”➰
September 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Someday our bodies will no longer matter,
and we will leave them in our sleep, to travel easily.”➰
and we will leave them in our sleep, to travel easily.”➰
“Have you ever seen anything in your life
more wonderful
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon…”
- The Sun by Mary Oliver
#FromtheNotebook ✨
more wonderful
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon…”
- The Sun by Mary Oliver
#FromtheNotebook ✨
August 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Have you ever seen anything in your life
more wonderful
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon…”
- The Sun by Mary Oliver
#FromtheNotebook ✨
more wonderful
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon…”
- The Sun by Mary Oliver
#FromtheNotebook ✨
O body o summer, naked, burnt
Eaten away by oil and salt
Body of rock and shudder of the heart
Great ruffling wind in the osier hair
Beneath of basil above the curly pubic mound
Full of stars and pine needles
Body, deep vessel of the day!
-Odysseus Elytis, Body of Summer
Tr. E. Keeley & P. Sherrard
Eaten away by oil and salt
Body of rock and shudder of the heart
Great ruffling wind in the osier hair
Beneath of basil above the curly pubic mound
Full of stars and pine needles
Body, deep vessel of the day!
-Odysseus Elytis, Body of Summer
Tr. E. Keeley & P. Sherrard
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
O body o summer, naked, burnt
Eaten away by oil and salt
Body of rock and shudder of the heart
Great ruffling wind in the osier hair
Beneath of basil above the curly pubic mound
Full of stars and pine needles
Body, deep vessel of the day!
-Odysseus Elytis, Body of Summer
Tr. E. Keeley & P. Sherrard
Eaten away by oil and salt
Body of rock and shudder of the heart
Great ruffling wind in the osier hair
Beneath of basil above the curly pubic mound
Full of stars and pine needles
Body, deep vessel of the day!
-Odysseus Elytis, Body of Summer
Tr. E. Keeley & P. Sherrard
"Profuse light; splendour. Summer asserts itself and compels every soul to happiness."
- André Gide, Journal (1943)
#SummerWriting
- André Gide, Journal (1943)
#SummerWriting
August 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Profuse light; splendour. Summer asserts itself and compels every soul to happiness."
- André Gide, Journal (1943)
#SummerWriting
- André Gide, Journal (1943)
#SummerWriting