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morethanmud.bsky.social
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@morethanmud.bsky.social
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i run a tight shipwreck; coming here was your first mistake.

fuck ai. i block that shit on sight.

this be the art account of @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

art samples - https://upfromsumdirt.wordpress.com/visual-art/
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Cattelena of Almondsbury, England who passed in 1625
illustration of a black-skinned woman wearing a lacy head scarf and other 17th century styled clothing.
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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more Thomas Hart Benton
Portrait of a Musician
painting of a black man with short afro and wearing a suit & tie with dark blue jacket plays an upright bass/fiddle.
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
Thomas Hart Benton

Aaron
painting of a black man wearing a slightly oversized, shabby gray coat. he has a short gray afro, a large bushy gray mustache, and both of his hands hold the orangish-brown handle of a broomstick or cane.
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Aaron, 1941 (lithograph)
gray-scaled print of an elderly man with presumably black facial features, thick short wavy hair with indented parts, a long handlebar mustache, and thick wrinkled grooves in his forehead.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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is this cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto?!?! my urge is to say "fuck the rich" but those arent extremely expensive ingredients... still, i imagine it tastes like ass. 😑

and, yes, as always: fuck the rich!
photo of what looks like elongated slices of cantaloupe wrapped in paper-thin slices of marbled meat.
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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that i caint get my hands on this greatly angers me...

Zhu Yingchun, The Language of Bugs, 2017
photo of a tan-colored book with various unreadable glyphs & symbols on the cover with chinese writing that states this is a book of letters created by tracing the patterns of various bugs walking across paper. or something like that. internal view of the pages with a variety of meaningless, bug-created glyphs.
February 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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i love Césaire... my latest collection opens with an epigraph from one of his poems...
that 2 and 2 are 5 that the forest miaows that the tree plucks the maroons from the fire that the sky strokes its beard etc. etc. . . . — Aimé Césaire, Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
February 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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contralto Marian Anderson by Harlem Renaissance painter, Laura Wheeler Waring
painting a statuesque, brown-skinned woman in a long floor-length red dress standing in a room near what appears to be a landscape painting or could be an open window.
February 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Josephine Baker by Paul Collins
side profile painting of Josephine Baker, a glowing, brown-skinned woman with a short hairstyle featuring a curly cue bob slickered down against the side of her face.
February 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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The Weight They Cannot See

— Opeyemi Olukotun
painting of a shirtless black man wearing paint-stained dark trousers reclines on a flowal-covered couch.
February 5, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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my internet surfing has clearly had its own algorithms today...
photo of red hued toilet captioned "raspberry bidet with gold plumbing" - someone has replied above it "the kind you find in a secondhand store"
February 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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photo of a protest sign with an image of the singer, prince, with text that reads "dearly beloved we are gathered here today to dismantle this thing called ice"
February 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Echoes of the Past: Elena Rebinder’s Typewriter Art from 1930’s Russia
illustration of a woman wearing a gown made by using repetitive keystrokes from a typewriter onto paper. illustration of a woman wearing maybe a sweater and skirt made by using repetitive keystrokes from a typewriter onto paper. she also wears a scarf flying in the wind and is holding a ski pole. profiles and silhouettes of people and a house using keystrokes from a typewriter to create the images illustration of a woman wearing a dress made by using repetitive keystrokes from a typewriter onto paper; keystrokes have also be used to create a rectangled frame or border around her.
February 3, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Pool Parlor by Jacob Lawrence.
stylized painting of 5 black men shooting pool at 4 various green pool tables (2 men shoot pool at the bottom-most table and one man each at the other 3 tables)
February 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
morethanmud.bsky.social
derek jarman's the spirit of the world

with better detailed alt text...
photo of a framed canvas with everything inch of it painted black. scrawled in very small cursive writing near the bottom reads "caught in the web of capital"
February 2, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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i just be playin...
black doodle on yellow paper of a black man wearing a hoodie with ears like the cartoon character, finn, from adventure time. a word bubble made of brown cardboard is situated beneath his mouth with the words "what if my hoodie had ears". the piece questions the perceptions between who gets to be labeled a threat and who gets to be labeled whimsical. doodle in black marker on yellow paper of the side facial profile of a bearded black man. digital doodle in blue ink on a yellow background of a black man with facial stubble and his eyes closes bookcover for a fake poetry collection called "like a peer, amid: sumpoems by upfromsumdirt. image is a digital doodle in blue ink on a yellow background. the figure has stubble, a blue nose, and a perfectly round black afro.
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Derek Jarman, The Spirit of the World, 1981
photo of a framed canvas with everything inch of it painted black.
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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Zarina Hashmi (Indian, b. 1937)

left: Untitled, relief print from collaged wood on Indian handmade paper.

right: Cage, relief print.
relief print of mostly square block shapes used to form rings and circles within rings. color is primarily brown with one darker orange pie slice shape. print of black and grayish vertical plank shapes forming an enclosure seen from above at a quarter angle view.
January 31, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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artist unknown

Betty Boop, Mickey and Minnie, Japan, 1936
illustrated color rendering of minnie mouse and betty boop both dressed in red and micky mouse dressed in yellow.
January 30, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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eternal mood...
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Bobby the Dog by Pierre Probst, A Little Golden Book, 1961
vook illustration of black and white dog standing on a red stool and frying an egg in a skillet on a stove while shaking salt or pepper on top.
January 25, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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more Varo
the troubadour
surreal painting that my explanation will struggle to make sense of but here goes: a green river winds through a forest. a man stands in a boat with the figurehead of a woman. he is pulling on the hair of the figurehead and plays it like a violin with a bow. various mythical creatures and figures hide among the trees, some within the trees, others behind. one creature composed entirely of roots plays a flute.
January 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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The Flower Vendor by Victor Prouvé (1882)
painting of a topless white woman, her blue-ish robes hang down one arm thats holding a basket of yellow flowers mingled with 3 skulls with a 4th skull held up by her free hand.
January 19, 2026 at 12:16 PM