| elisabeth rose - she/her - 30 - phd student | early modernist | art historian
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Gay rep in a netflix show: Hey there. I’m Nolan, and I’ve got a kind of small, huge, enormous problem. I’ve got a crush,,, on another boy??? Am I gay?
Flamboyant drag queen friend: Nolan!!! You’re gay?! Let me be your mentor, you’re gonna slay so hard queen! Makeover time babe!!!! Slay!
Guy in a Cronenberg movie: I need another man to finger my bloody gash so badly I’m actually shaking
Guy #2: I have a vagania on my neck
#this one time#i was having a conversation with some film people in my grad program#and they brought up cronenberg's crash 1996 and i was like 'oh! i just saw that for the first time!'#because I had just watched it for the first time#and one guy was like 'WHICH crash? are you sure it wasn't the one from 2004?' and he gave me such a look#like brother do you think i would confuse crash 1996 the erotic car crash movie with the film with ludacris and sandra bullock?#are you stupid?#he clearly thought it wasn't something i would watch#jokes on him because i'm into way weirder shit than that#anyway#every day i am tormented by film bros who by the way DO NOT react well if you call them film bros#and will tell you they can't be considered film bros if they're gay#which is just incorrect
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Slowly but surely trying to improve my detalization skills (*-`ω´- )人
step by step process on insta!
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John Bauer - The Ring, Riding in the moonlight, 1914
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Cauldron of the Sorceress (1879) by Odilon Redon
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Cinema without people: Hagazussa (2017, Lukas Feigelfeld, dir.)
#films#i wrote the outline for an essay about the cinematography in this film#i knew from that first screencap what film this was haha#hagazussa
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Jack Faragasso's 1963 paperback cover art for Double Star, by Robert A. Heinlein
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"XVI (The Tower)" 8x16", Watercolor. 2025
On view now at Vakarie Gallery, for "Arcana: Painting the Fates," a Tarot themed group show
Original Artwork available for purchase
Prints
The Tower is a notoriously negative card, but the more I learn about tarot the less I believe in starkly positive or negative meanings. The Tower symbolizes challenges, difficult ones, like....the kind of challenges that leave you back at square one. But challenges in my mind mean change. Getting knocked down means you have to do something different when you try again, whether that is putting more care and effort into the techniques used before, or trying something new entirely.
Some of you know by now that I've been having an issue with my spine/sacrum for a few years now - while I'm able to carry out my days normally-ish now it has left me with chronic pain that I'm still hoping will heal. It's affected the way I work, the way I relax, the type of exercise that I can do...Pretty much everything part of a routine that I worked hard to build has had to be altered in some way. It's a journey I'm still on and frustrated by. I'm not fully convinced that the diagnosis I received is the entirety of the issue. I also think a part of it isn't a diagnosis thing at all, I'm just getting older.
The spine is the center. It connects the brain to the body, and serves as the conduit for every message between them. It's the foundation for our anatomical hardware and software.
So, is this a personal piece?....Who's to say.
Full painting process documentation of this piece is included in this month's Artist's Notebook PDF, over on patreon.
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Ritual axe decorated with skulls and crown motifs. The handle and axehead are glass, and the rest is gilded bronze. The axe was likely to cut through delusions or sever psychological attachments to the worldly life, allowing one to spiritually evolve.
From the town of Derge in the Kham region (today’s Tibet). 1500s - 1600s CE.
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Set of glazed ceramic tiles, 17th century, originating from the Netherlands. Collection: Museum Rotterdam.
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Kyra Markham - Looking Out the Window, Vermont (1947)
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Opium Vampire (1911)
A Russian postcard depicting a woman smoking opium titled “Awakening from Opium” by A. Matignon
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Vojtěch Preissig (Czech, 1873-1944, b. Světec, Czechia, d. concentration camp in Dachau, Germany) - Seven Ravens, folio 13 from the album Coloured Etchings, 1903, Etching
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AKUAC YEL photographed by Nicole Ngai for X Studio, makeup by Aoife
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