Tamara Rafkin
@tamararafkin.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Artist primarily working in ceramics and photographic processes. Dealing with ideas of emotional resonance of place, the traversal of liminal space, & our sense of belonging.
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Also known to do editorial photos of musicians & others.
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Also known to do editorial photos of musicians & others.
Thankful for Costco’s pharmacy. Been searching for a vaccine here in N Texas for weeks that I need for travel abroad. Finally I’m able to get it through them with 3wks to go until travel time. 🙏🏼
April 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thankful for Costco’s pharmacy. Been searching for a vaccine here in N Texas for weeks that I need for travel abroad. Finally I’m able to get it through them with 3wks to go until travel time. 🙏🏼
3 wks from today I head to a 2mo residency in China returning to go to 2wks at Penland in NC. Raising funds to get my ceramics home ( with possible tarrif issues) + unforeseen expenses- grateful for any help possible file under:Artist life durring current times gofund.me/d0347e67
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April 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
3 wks from today I head to a 2mo residency in China returning to go to 2wks at Penland in NC. Raising funds to get my ceramics home ( with possible tarrif issues) + unforeseen expenses- grateful for any help possible file under:Artist life durring current times gofund.me/d0347e67
Part of my ‘Construction-Deconstruction’ series reflects on the current moment. Cyanotype photos on a slip cast vase with various glazes. Merging my photography and
Ceramics practice while looking at place, how it forms identity, architectural & emotional landscapes as metaphors for human experience
Ceramics practice while looking at place, how it forms identity, architectural & emotional landscapes as metaphors for human experience
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Part of my ‘Construction-Deconstruction’ series reflects on the current moment. Cyanotype photos on a slip cast vase with various glazes. Merging my photography and
Ceramics practice while looking at place, how it forms identity, architectural & emotional landscapes as metaphors for human experience
Ceramics practice while looking at place, how it forms identity, architectural & emotional landscapes as metaphors for human experience
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Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
Place, memory, how it builds our identity and sense of belonging- all topics I’m working with in my practice through the metaphor of architectural and emotional landscape.
April 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Place, memory, how it builds our identity and sense of belonging- all topics I’m working with in my practice through the metaphor of architectural and emotional landscape.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sometimes you just need to stop and fill up on something calm and beautiful.
April 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Sometimes you just need to stop and fill up on something calm and beautiful.
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The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.
Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline
An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., and the release was contained, the pipeline’s operator said.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Your visit to a national park boosts local economies by supporting jobs and generating wages. In 2023, a total of 325 million national parks visitors spent an estimated $26.4 billion — the most in a decade. usafacts.org/articles/how...
How do national parks affect the economy? | USAFacts
National park visitor spending contributes to local GDP, jobs, and wages.
usafacts.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Your visit to a national park boosts local economies by supporting jobs and generating wages. In 2023, a total of 325 million national parks visitors spent an estimated $26.4 billion — the most in a decade. usafacts.org/articles/how...
This list of words negates conversations and any work of government at all. It is 2025 not 1915 - we need to react to this and if I could I would project them on our government buildings with projection mapping.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This list of words negates conversations and any work of government at all. It is 2025 not 1915 - we need to react to this and if I could I would project them on our government buildings with projection mapping.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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March 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸
Reading various things on contemporary art and land pedagogy- all I keep thinking is we are in a moment where the universe is forcing a reckoning of realizations about interconnectivity and the breakdown of the idea of the binary. This lack of definition is what seems to scare most people.
February 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reading various things on contemporary art and land pedagogy- all I keep thinking is we are in a moment where the universe is forcing a reckoning of realizations about interconnectivity and the breakdown of the idea of the binary. This lack of definition is what seems to scare most people.
Just signed up - as an artist and photographer looking forward to having another option other than IG. Thanks @flashes.blue team!
Good news everyone!
The wait is almost over! Flashes for Bluesky is now available for free pre-order on the App Store.
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The wait is almost over! Flashes for Bluesky is now available for free pre-order on the App Store.
🔥 Pre-"order" now (it's free) & get it the moment it launches!
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Flashes for Bluesky
Flashes is a native Bluesky photo/video app.
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February 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Just signed up - as an artist and photographer looking forward to having another option other than IG. Thanks @flashes.blue team!
Wednesday morning chuckle.
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Wednesday morning chuckle.
Thank you Meghna Chakrabarti & On Point for making me smile last night “what can a divided country agree on? Car Headlights are too bright!” Worth listening to 😄https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point
On Point
Let's make sense of the world – together. From the economy and health care to politics and the environment – and so much more – On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with newsmakers and real people ...
www.npr.org
February 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Thank you Meghna Chakrabarti & On Point for making me smile last night “what can a divided country agree on? Car Headlights are too bright!” Worth listening to 😄https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point
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Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary:
"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."
BOOM!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."
BOOM!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
February 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary:
"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."
BOOM!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it."
BOOM!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
In my pursuit of distraction from the fall of America- found a great article in the NYT today www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex
In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In my pursuit of distraction from the fall of America- found a great article in the NYT today www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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WIRED has been downright exceptional in covering this carnage.
February 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
WIRED has been downright exceptional in covering this carnage.
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Internationale Herdenkingsdag voor de Holocaust. Op 27 januari 1945 werd het concentratiekampcomplex Auschwitz-Birkenau bevrijd door het Rode Leger #neveragain #NoPasaran
January 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Internationale Herdenkingsdag voor de Holocaust. Op 27 januari 1945 werd het concentratiekampcomplex Auschwitz-Birkenau bevrijd door het Rode Leger #neveragain #NoPasaran
Waiting for the low UV days of winter to pass to return to my cyanotype on clay work - yes, UV lights work
But there is something about working with the sun. “Shifting Memories no.7” 2024 #cyanotype #ceramicsculpture #alternativephoto #contemporaryart #fromtheartiststudio
But there is something about working with the sun. “Shifting Memories no.7” 2024 #cyanotype #ceramicsculpture #alternativephoto #contemporaryart #fromtheartiststudio
January 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Waiting for the low UV days of winter to pass to return to my cyanotype on clay work - yes, UV lights work
But there is something about working with the sun. “Shifting Memories no.7” 2024 #cyanotype #ceramicsculpture #alternativephoto #contemporaryart #fromtheartiststudio
But there is something about working with the sun. “Shifting Memories no.7” 2024 #cyanotype #ceramicsculpture #alternativephoto #contemporaryart #fromtheartiststudio
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Feels like a good time to remind everyone that if you are a public servant wishing to report retaliation, acts of corruption or abuse of government power, I have a page for that on my website: www.wyden.senate.gov/whistleblowe...
January 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Feels like a good time to remind everyone that if you are a public servant wishing to report retaliation, acts of corruption or abuse of government power, I have a page for that on my website: www.wyden.senate.gov/whistleblowe...