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Stacey Gillian Abe (Ugandan, b. 1991)
See You Later…Again, 2022
Acrylic on canvas and hand embroidered details
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Sokhna Cisse by Lucian Bor for Vogue Arabia , Dec 2021
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Hello artists who can’t draw backgrounds
There’s a completely free website called roomstyler that allows you to create high-quality 3D renders of rooms that you can easily use as reference for actual drawings
Here’s a few examples I’ve done
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“I am my mother's the same way she is mine. We have each seen the other's sword from both ends; protector and enemy in the same breath.”
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—mothers
ijeoma umebinyuo // hyatt moore // class of 2013 by mitski // i, tonya (2017) // ? // gustav klimt // ? // lady bird (2017) // i remain in darkness by annie ernaux
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smokeinsilence / sightofsea / young love by bts / nizar qabbani / abeba birhane / the waves by virginia woolf / franz kafka letters to milena / ratsandlilies.art / the butterflys burden by mahmoud darwish / underneath the stars by mariah carey
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Mothers & Fathers
@heavensghost | Jasmine R., “Untitled” | Berthe Morisot, “The Cradle” | @honeytuesday | Unknown | Alain de Botton | Léon Lucien Goupil, “Motherhood” | Chen Chen, “Poplar Street” | Ella Wilson, “Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred” | @maiabaia | Kazuya Akimoto, “Mother and a Child in the Mirror” | Li-Young Lee, “Folding a Five-Cornered Star so the Corners Meet” | Aaron Smith, “Primer” | Catherine Lacey, “Cut” | futngina | Jules David, “Vice and Virtue: Misery” | Rupi Kaur, “The Sun and Her Flowers”
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The Best [advice]: The best writing advice I ever received was in a fortune cookie that said: “the work teaches you how to do it.” The work, the art, whatever you wish to create, is the best teacher—an organizing intelligence begins to reveal itself only when you start writing. So get to work! The second best writing advice is Goethe’s “do not hurry; do not rest.”
Naheed Phiroze Patel, 10 Asian American writers on the best (and worst) advice they’ve ever received. (by Katie Yee)
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Mother-daughter relationships are like throwing a dart at a wheel where the only two options are “I love you” and “I never want to speak to you again” every 5 minutes for your entire life
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Louise Henderson - Bathers
New Zealand, 1902-1994
Oil on board
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