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Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon (from the San Jose Museum of Art)

Cyanotype prints on found book pages exposed to moonlight.

Thirty-six Views of the Moon is a collection of night exposures, left from dusk till dawn and exposed by moonlight on book pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky spanning the last ten centuries. Working with photographic negatives of the Moon from the Lick Observatory archives in Northern California and treating each book page with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate (cyanotype) to make the surface of the page light-sensitive, the pages are then exposed overnight by the UV-light emitted by the moon. The work takes its cue from a poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines us as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze and, in response, produces a vignette of windows on the Moon that abstract the typical celestial gaze, merging galaxy with ground to collapse space and time. (McEvoy Foundation for the Arts)

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Fremont, CA, USA

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A creature emerges.

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sun glowing thru my unicorn this afternoon (:

i made both her and the little wooden mini pallet this year…

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SCHEDULE:

Starting September 1st, 2025, here's the weekly breakdown :D read at your own pace within the week, and come look at this blog each sunday for a checkup! Also feel free to tag this blog for any discussion post, and use the #kkcreadalong25 so I can find your posts ;)

Sep 1st - Sep 7th: NOTW Prologue to Ch 25

Sep 8th - Sep 14th: NOTW Ch 26 to 65

Sep 15th- Sep 21st: NOTW Ch 66 to Epilogue

Sep 22nd - Sep 28th: WMF Prologue to Ch 27

Sep 29th - Oct 5th: WMF Ch 28 to 64

Oct 6th - Oct 12th: WMF Ch 65 to 101

Oct 13th - Oct 19th: WMF Ch 102 to 135

Oct 20th - Oct 26th: WMF Ch 136 to Epilogue + TSROST

Oct 27th - Oct 31st: TNRBD

I'll ask that everyone tags their spoilers with #kkcreadalongspoilers when discussing stuff that are ahead of the schedule, just in case we have some first time readers joining us!

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Out n about

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7 mins apart by the way

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Canopy bed with alcove, crafted from wood, originating from China during the Ming dynasty, 16th century.

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Drove to Colorado with my boyfriend and his dog

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i know i joke about rent-lowering gunshots but i cannot emphasize enough that incest and rape kinks are extremely common. wildly popular. this is something that a lot of people fantasize about, because it’s an easily accessible taboo, it intrigues/scares/interests people and there’s a lot of content out there to absorb about it. it’s really not that out there or extreme to have those fetishes; we are talking top charters on pornhub of all places.

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Spanish Synagogue in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice, Italy. Photographs by PG.

“The Spanish Synagogue is one of the two functioning synagogues in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice, northern Italy. It is open for services from Passover until the end of the High Holiday season…[it] was founded by Jews expelled from the Iberian peninsulain the 1490s who reached Venice, usually via Amsterdam, Livorno or Ferrara, in the 1550s. The four-story story yellow stone building, designed by architect Baldassarre Longhena was constructed in 1580 and was restored in 1635. It is a clandestine synagogue, which was tolerated on the condition that it be concealed within a building that gives no appearance being a house of worship form the exterior, although the interior is elaborately decorated.”

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Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨

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Tagged by @blinkeasy ! Tagging anyone who wants to play!

Choose what to take from my room (in this case, from the shadowbox in my office niche).