#BETH CAVENER!!

[mongreldyke]

nothin' quite like how a dog loves

let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin // red dog - elizabeth frink // how to be a dog - andrew kane // domestication syndrome - dhole b // no origin found // for your own good - leah horlick // it will come back - hozier // pleasure - beth cavener // i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth. - sciencedfiction // same poem as directly previous

[noroniko]

Tangled Up in You

Beth Cavener study + Procreate practice

[culturedeladouceur]

committed by beth cavener, 2015

[skulsakz]

wolf sculpture by beth cavener

[sculpturegallery]

Beth Cavener Stichter

[claypigeonpottery]

since I reblogged that Beth Cavener post earlier, I wanted to share a little more of her work, and the work of another sculptural artist that I really admire

Beth Cavener

I think this is my favourite of all her pieces:

and a close up:

two perspectives on this one:

just the motion and feel she gives her pieces!

and my other favourite: Kelsey Bowen

her characters are mostly children (or childlike?) and the situations are playful, but they feel real too, like they come with consequences

like destruction

hurting others by mistake

or potentially hurting themself

if you’re interested, check them both out. I included links to their instagrams, they both have a LOT more work to admire, plus videos to really see the 3D nature of their work

[stardustcleaningguy]

oh trad sketching how i missed you .. startin off a new sketchbook w a little hare

[enbycrip]

CW: discussion of pregnancy loss

Honestly this is one of the most powerful pieces of art I’ve ever seen.

(This is a personal interpretation; I don’t know if this was the artist’s intent)

There’s so little art out there about pregnancy loss. It’s a type of grief that makes people intensely uncomfortable. It gets equated with lack of support for abortion - which is upsetting, tbh, given it’s *incredibly* possible to support the essential right for bodily autonomy and yet still be utterly personally devastated by the loss, often repeated loss, of a potential life you desperately wanted.

In my work as an early modern historian, I’m bizarrely comforted as well as gut-punched by the statistics and personal experiences of child and pregnancy loss I encounter, which were so horrifically common before modern medicine, particularly vaccines and antibiotics. Because one of the effects of pregnancy loss is how isolating it is. We are so conditioned to silence about it. It is actually *helpful* to me when the grief strikes me to realise how huge a part of the human experience child and pregnancy loss is and has been.

Our biology, despite all our technology, is not simple and foolproof. Pregnancy and having children is surrounded in a commodified and cutesified bubble of celebration. The wolf is the fact that biology, like chance in general, is harsh and fallible. We cannot wish our way into the outcomes that we desperately want.

"In Bocca al Lupo" by sculptor Beth Cavener. Stoneware, Mixed Media. Installation: H 90 x L 276 x W 48 in. 2012.

[tuxedodragon-art]

Drawing study inspired by Beth Cavener’s work! I’m in love with the shapes and expressions in her lagomorph sculptures uwu

[kyunkyun]

“The Sanguine 2”, Beth Cavener, 2010. Stoneware, paint, mixed media.

[hitku]

by Beth Cavener

[mongreldyke]

feral dogs and the fear of being chained

untitled - mischievous.dog // c-53 post // on the topic of growing up - fruiteas // how to be a dog - andrew kane // never tamed - fuckyoubaker // phantom synapsis - mothsprout // episode 15 - mabel podcast // playing devil's advocate - babezord // tongues and teeth - the crane wives // the choleric (the wolf) - beth cavener // more and more - margaret atwood

[noroniko]

Trapped

Beth Cavener study

[illnessfaker]

apparently twitter people are pearl-clutching over someone in some vacuum-sealed fetish setup in a video that's gone viral or w/e and like i don't think there's any "discourse" standpoint you can take against latex fetishes/kinks of all things that isn't just "i think it's freaky so it's a bad thing." that really is the whole "politics centering around disgust/repulsion" side of the fetish/kink "debate" jumping out.

[skulsakz]

sculpture by beth cavener

[sculpturegallery]

L’ Amante 2012 - Beth Cavener Stichter