Mary Antonia Wood, PhD
@talismancreative.bsky.social
The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity & the Call to Create (Routledge 2022) | Chair, Depth Psychology & Creativity at Pacifica Grad. Institute | Artist, writer & artist's mentor | talismanmentoring.com | www.instagram.com/talisman_creative
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“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
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Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
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I'm voting no on DHS funding.
Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American.
If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.
Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American.
If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.
January 27, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I'm voting no on DHS funding.
Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American.
If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.
Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American.
If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.
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Amanda Gorman, once again, speaking truth to power.
Speechless.
😭🕯️🕊️
✊🏼🤝🏼🙏🏼
Speechless.
😭🕯️🕊️
✊🏼🤝🏼🙏🏼
January 26, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Amanda Gorman, once again, speaking truth to power.
Speechless.
😭🕯️🕊️
✊🏼🤝🏼🙏🏼
Speechless.
😭🕯️🕊️
✊🏼🤝🏼🙏🏼
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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind
— Langston Hughes
5-year-old Liam Ramos,
abducted by ICE in Minnesota,
now held in a detention center in Texas.
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind
— Langston Hughes
5-year-old Liam Ramos,
abducted by ICE in Minnesota,
now held in a detention center in Texas.
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind
— Langston Hughes
5-year-old Liam Ramos,
abducted by ICE in Minnesota,
now held in a detention center in Texas.
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind
— Langston Hughes
5-year-old Liam Ramos,
abducted by ICE in Minnesota,
now held in a detention center in Texas.
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She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.
January 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM
She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.
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Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart
January 7, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart
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Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru in a series of many images #WomensArt
December 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru in a series of many images #WomensArt
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Here it is
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Here it is
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Watch Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes piece on CECOT, axed by Bari Weiss, here—thanks to some Canadians who captured it, and to some Bluesky users who recorded and uploaded it to YouTube (so a Canadian VPN is not required):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...
60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada)
YouTube video by JayyRodd
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Watch Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes piece on CECOT, axed by Bari Weiss, here—thanks to some Canadians who captured it, and to some Bluesky users who recorded and uploaded it to YouTube (so a Canadian VPN is not required):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...
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This is the Solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
— Margaret Atwood
Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24
Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
— Margaret Atwood
Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24
Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892
December 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This is the Solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
— Margaret Atwood
Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24
Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
— Margaret Atwood
Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24
Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892
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This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
December 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.
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Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
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Oldie but a goodie
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Oldie but a goodie
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‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.’
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
November 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM
‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.’
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
— James Baldwin
Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:
The Spring issue of Insights is out now! I'm so pleased to have my work featured on the cover, and to have been interviewed about my thoughts on the "Anima," the archetype of life itself, and the theme of the issue. issuu.com/kknightpgi/d...
April 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Spring issue of Insights is out now! I'm so pleased to have my work featured on the cover, and to have been interviewed about my thoughts on the "Anima," the archetype of life itself, and the theme of the issue. issuu.com/kknightpgi/d...
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A PROPHECY
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
April 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A PROPHECY
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’
Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910
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Frida Kahlo, 1935 by photographer and best friend Lucienne Bloch, who said of this day..“We went to a Spanish restaurant and had a kind of strong stuff like Vodka..... We acted most crazy. It was a fine afternoon and cheered Frida up.” #WomensArt
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Frida Kahlo, 1935 by photographer and best friend Lucienne Bloch, who said of this day..“We went to a Spanish restaurant and had a kind of strong stuff like Vodka..... We acted most crazy. It was a fine afternoon and cheered Frida up.” #WomensArt
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"But some bonuses, like morning, / like right now."
March 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"But some bonuses, like morning, / like right now."
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“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.”
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
March 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.”
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme
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This is a dynamic global organization!
💥This stellar bi-annual #conference is back!!
“The Creative Psyche & Arts-Based Research”
Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London and online
When: June 14-15
Keynote: Prof. Susan Rowland @susanrowland.bsky.social
Conference webpage: labrc.co.uk/2025/03/02/the…
“The Creative Psyche & Arts-Based Research”
Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London and online
When: June 14-15
Keynote: Prof. Susan Rowland @susanrowland.bsky.social
Conference webpage: labrc.co.uk/2025/03/02/the…
March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is a dynamic global organization!
Taking a moment to marvel at the bigger picture–the much bigger picture...
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Taking a moment to marvel at the bigger picture–the much bigger picture...