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Nov. 14th, 2024 10:25 amPhotograph of In Bloom, a street art piece by Nicole Ashton (Instagram) in Reno Nevada. Photo by Flickr user Scott Hart, shared on the Night Images group (feed available at nightpix_flickr_feed).
Photograph of In Bloom, a street art piece by Nicole Ashton (Instagram) in Reno Nevada. Photo by Flickr user Scott Hart, shared on the Night Images group (feed available at nightpix_flickr_feed).
Photo by Flickr user Lato-Pictures on the Night Images group, available via RSS as nightpix_flickr_feed.
Mosaic artist Jim Bachor keeps taking his art to the streets in a very literal fashion, filling potholes in multiple cities' roadways with guerilla art installations of all sorts - from overt political messages to simple expressions of beauty. More of the artist's work can be found on his site, including a full gallery of his pothole installations.
Calligraphic graffiti from Chicago, Illinois. Originally posted by Radical Graffiti on Twitter, now on multiple social media pages.
VOTE!, 2024 sculpture by Matthew Mazzota for the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections in Florida. Per the artist's statement:
At the heart of our voting process, we are a collection of unique individuals with a diverse range of experiences, but together we make the world we live in. Voting shapes day-to-day life in the US, however, the actions and policies of America extend to all reaches of the globe. As we become more and more aware of how interconnected we all are, we see the direct implications of our decisions on a global level, impacting all living creatures around the world. VOTE! urges us to consider the weight of voting on behalf of the people and beings who cannot vote but are affected by what we decide, for example, what would be on Nature's mind if it had a chance to vote?
Opalized wood from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Gem and Mineral collection, photographed by Flickr user Stan Celestian. More pictures from this photographer of the NHMLA's collection can be found in his album.
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has released what it describes as "2,000+ science and medical art visuals" into the public domain as a part of its "BioArt source" beta. These constitute vector images of everything from people to cell organelles, and (at least in my opinion) would be amazing in contribution to either digital or physical collage.
The Child Sleeps, 2014, by Jessica Shirley. More of the artist's work is also available on her Instagram.
Laundrosaurus - photography/assemblage by Helga Stentzel. More work available on the artist's homepage (above) or her Instagram.
On my last post of an aurora picture from the Night Images Flickr group (RSS feed at nightpix_flickr_feed), power lines were mentioned as an unfortunately-limited "available subject" when compared to the ruins shown in that photo. This picture from Flickr user "todd" demonstrates my firm belief that compositional choices can bring out the majesty in even the things we see everyday. It's just a matter of how they're viewed and presented. Don't be afraid to take another look at the world around you and see if it can be captured in a way that reframes it all anew!
When We Arrive at the Jupiter... - 2003 woodblock print by Machida Eimei, discovered via Ukiyo-e.org. Per the website, at this time it contains 223,128 images of this traditional Japanese art-style.
This piece, Daffodils by Any Means Necessary by R/L Monroe, is part of the gallery Unprintable hosted on his website. This is described by its creator as an "online free shop, where original artwork and arts resources are released into the public domain."
The collection is currently limited in scope, but still - it's a neat collection of completely free-to-use content of various forms.
Milky Way in Canyonlands by photographer yinlaihuff on Flickr. Found via the Night Images group feed, nightpix_flickr_feed.
Purifying Angel Of The Decomposing Carcass, 2012, acrylic on wood by Matt Adrian (artofmattadrian on Instagram). More of his work can be found on his website gallery, and he also creates the Troubled Birds series under the name Mincing Mockingbird.
From a 2021 exhibition by Australian artist Evie Poggioli. More from this exhibition, including videos of the works while lit, can be found on the gallery page at the GUZZLER gallery. Images of a second exhibition are also available there.
Living Your Life in a Goldfish Bowl by John Alexander, 1985, oil on canvas. In the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. From their description of the piece:
“The tangle of brushstrokes in Living Your Life in a Goldfish Bowl brings to mind the clotted, suffocating density of swamps in John Alexander's native Texas. The goldfish bowl represents life's generalized paranoia and viciousness, as well as the specific pressures of his career. This painting captures the dark humor of a man who says that artists, like "thieves and hoodlums," earn their living after midnight. Alexander admits that the scale of his paintings contributes to the anxiety he experiences in the studio, where he veers between pride and doubt. When he isn't painting, he watches the great blue herons waiting to snap up the koi from his pond, and thinks of his critics' judgments: "Try opening up on the canvas, pour yourself into it, and then let 300 to 400 people come in and reject you or praise you."”
More of the artist's work is available on his website in addition to the Smithsonian exhibition of his art.
Hey, 2005, by Ken Little. More of the artist's work can be found on his collection at D. M. Allison's Art Flow site.
Murals on staircases from Peruvian artist Xomatok (also on Instagram) across Lima, Peru. More from Colossal's review of his works:
Artist Xomatok translates the vibrant, geometric motifs of handwoven Andean blankets, or llicllas, into large-scale works that mark the pathways through the hilly Alisos de Amauta neighborhood in Lima, Peru. Painted during the course of two months as part of the Municipality of Lima’s Pinta Lima Bicentenario, the 13 interventions were a collaborative undertaking by the artist and local residents, who transformed the public staircases that wind through the district into multi-level canvases. The resulting patterns are kaleidoscopic and highlight a spectrum of bright colors and symmetries often associated with the traditional textiles. In a note to Colossal, Xomatok says community members will add to the project as a way to continue celebrating their cultural history, and you can take an aerial tour of the finished pieces on the artist’s Instagram.
HE TELLS HER
He tells her that the earth is flat-
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.The planet goes on being round.
Differences of Opinion by poet Wendy Cope, from the February 2006 edition of Poetry.
All issues of Poetry going back to October 1912 are accessible on the Poetry Foundation website.