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hi! im hoping to pick your brain, and, depending on your comfort/capacity, maybe develop a conversational relationship about your work.
i am doing my MA in visual critical studies at CCA, and your work echoes some critical topics i want to research.
a. i myself am a fiber artist and hope to study visuals in fiber craft
b. my visual obsessions are ancient motifs! this includes petroglyphs, fossils, and like bronze age utilitarian designs on sarcophagi/vases etc. as seen in your work!
you see why i am eager to engage with you, then.
c. my third focus is less research and more a practical lens that i hope to always embody: ensuring the exposure and payment of Black and Brown artists, myself being Mixed. this might appear less in research and more as i start to curate shows.
my question for you is what you would recommend to someone who is interested in these things? i want to learn more about the history and legacy of making art designed and inspired by our natural world, a practice as ancient as art itself, but I don’t even know what keywords to search for.
i can find resources on the history of craft, and the history of archeology/science/paleontology etc, but are there any artists/historians etc that discuss this intersection?
thank you 😊
great questions and so neat that we have such an overlap in interests! my first exposure to this intersection of art and nature/science was in some of my first art history classes in my undergraduate program. I learned a lot about “land artists”, one of my favorites being Andy Goldsworthy, but a lot of other artists worked with this idea at the same time.
I think in my own work I am more interested in the medium being fibers but the content and imagery being nature, and the land artists most typically swap this mindset and make art about their ideas using the natural world as a medium. So I think research on land artists might help you get some more keywords that you’re interested in if you haven’t already looked into them.
Another way you can look at this especially if you have this interest in fibers is history of eras or cultures where the production of fiber work such as quilts, weavings like rugs and other tapestries, clothing, etc was/is fundamental to their way of life and connection to their natural resources. Natural fibers like cotton, wool, flax and hemp all have very strong histories and are the basic building blocks for making these art and functional pieces! I sadly don’t have a specific article to link you to right now but have read papers and articles that highlight the process of spinning fibers into line, thread and yarn which might come in very usual for you if you do some digging! I also think that this angle in particular has ties to your last point about black and brown artists, and the ways in which these deep practices of building connection with the land are often dismissively labeled as craft, when they hold so much value especially in our world today where it’s cheaper for textile companies to value plastic materials that are more wasteful and harmful to the land.
just a fun little link I can share is this teapot. people have been making art about nature and the motifs within for a long time!
if you have any more questions feel free to dm me or send more asks :)
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barnulv23 · 7 months
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After leaving Sorrows, his enormous soot-black stallion, to drink in a nearby river, Yvain, the paladin, resumed his journey, under the glow of the sun which reflected colours on his golden sword. The road was calm, quiet, now that they had left the noisy town of Roladmenry an hour ago. Yvain, peaceful, was thoughtful about the meeting he had just had a short time before. He had seen, out of the corner of his eye, in the street along which he was walking, holding Sorrows' bridle at arm's length, a curious scene: A merchant, dressed in a long blue toga, dressed in a sand-colored hemp garment, who jabbered incensed things with a passion and a way of using words so ardent that it was hard to look away from him. He waved his hands as he spoke, the tips of his fingers however all adorned with rings of gold and precious stones, which hardly went with his torn and dirty poor man's clothes. He showed vials, trinkets which had no name or place of existence, which he managed to name and find a use for. A charlatan. Yvain was also almost sure of having already seen this dark-skinned man, from the lands of Al-Benisaga, no doubt, given the accent and the dialect, in a slave market where he offered 'fresh and young people' for work, when they were already over forty, but also, he was sure, of having seen him steal something, with his hooded figure, from a nearby merchant's stall. "This piece of string, my friends! He exclaimed. It is not a common piece of string, you see? In my distant country, this string was braided into the coarse hair of a lock of hair of mermaid. Having it with you allows you to illuminate your path at night, because it will start to shine brightly when you approach a water source!" This kind of nonsense... Sometimes he even handed people questionable vials which he made to taste to the curious, who immediately regretted having put this sickening substance on the tip of their tongue. "This, ladies and gentlemen, will bring vigor and endurance to wounded men returning from battle. Our famous warriors who fight for us, days and nights, and return home with a missing limb, lost in an epic battle to save a child. I have here an extract of hydra saliva! These gigantic creatures with snake heads, which grow back as quickly as they were cut! Well, ladies and gentlemen, here I was able to obtain the saliva of one of these creatures, and I myself have a one-legged friend...well...I had! Having tested the product on him, I can attest to its effectiveness! He was able to return home to his woman, running, and kick her in the arse for having caught her in bed with another man!” He chuckled a singling laugh that struck Yvain, who was sure that after killing that Hydra the other day, he had seen her saliva almost burn his skin and clothes like acid during their fight...
But after all, there was very little chance that this charlatan really had hydra saliva. Where could he have gotten it? He really didn't seem like the type to fight, more like to run away at the first opportunity... What a mysterious bohnom... But Yvain was quickly brought back to earth after hearing a voice calling him behind him. "Paladin! Sir Paladin!" Yvain frowned a bit as he turned to look behind him, from the back of his tall horse. It was that man, running after him, who himself, was followed by a young cow, carrying so many things... Yvain remained on his guard and his position, waiting for the man to approach him. “Afzal the Jackal, to serve you.” He bowed next to the horse, in a pretty sloppily way...visible the man had no education in a high court. “Yvain, Paladin of Light.” -I know! I know! I saw you at the market before! I have a mission for you! -I'm not a mercenary. -You see, I would need protection - the guard chases after me, stating that this poor man would have died, his stomach and all his insides burned by my potion... It's ridiculous! -My services are not for sale. Yvain moved his horse forward. He wasn't there to help the scum...this man had just killed someone after all... But the man was insistent and followed him, trotting behind him. -I need to leave quickly, you see... -You have a mount. Use it. -She’s loaded like a load! -So get rid of the unnecessary excess. -Those are valuable! -A broom? -It’s a flying broom! -Then use it to fly away. Afzal sighed a laugh. "It's stupid, I can't, I'm not a witch..." Seeing the paladin completely closed, hermetic to his speech, Afzal continued to follow him limply behind him while saying :  “At least let me accompany you…….” After all...he would come to help him if the guard ever caught him...right?
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Love this piece. And the story. I guess it's the first encounter between Afzal and Yvain? I enjoy putting more and more easter eggs in my drawings and lore now jgdfh I captured well Yvain's holiness compared to...yk.... XD Poor Afzal. He doesn't even know what he's doing.
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“This is not an overly dramatic statement: Access to hemp-derived delta-8 saves lives, period.”
Delta-8 has become so sought-after by veterans that the products are now readily available in vending machines at six VFW posts across the state, through a partnership formed a couple years ago with Austin-based hemp company Hometown Hero CBD.
The VFW is also advocating for an expansion of the state’s limited medical marijuana program to include patients with chronic pain, but Fuller said the regulated products tend to be more expensive and less convenient to buy, and veterans deserve to have a choice.
Delta-8, typically found in the form of edibles or vape cartridges, has exploded in popularity since 2019 when Texas, along with many other states, legalized hemp production following the passage of a federal law that reclassified the plant from an illegal drug to an agricultural commodity. 
It rose to prominence due to a loophole in those laws: For hemp products, they set a 0.3 percent limit on the concentration of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which induces the high associated with marijuana. However, the laws did not touch on another less common compound found in the plant, delta-8 THC, which can cause a similar feeling, especially at high dosages.
Delta-8 products grossed over $2 billion in sales in the last two years, according to a report by the Chicago-based Brightfield Group, a market research firm that studies the cannabis industry.
The Texas Department of State Health Services is engaged in an ongoing legal battle over the legality of delta-8, but in the meantime, the courts have allowed it to remain on shelves.
State Sen. Charles Perry is looking to put the issue to rest. Perry authored the bill that veterans like Fuller say they’re committed to fighting, Senate Bill 264. The Lubbock Republican has said that the Legislature never intended to legalize products that make people high.
This is not the first time Perry has attempted to curb the production of delta-8. 
Perry offered up legislation in 2021 to restrict delta-8 products, telling his fellow lawmakers that chemists had figured out how to synthesize hemp to go above the 0.3 percent THC content, “making it illegal in Texas, but also making it an unregulated, possibly unsafe product in the market.”
The House rejected the measure.
Red tape stunts state program 
Since 2019, lawmakers have broadened the medical marijuana program to add more than half a dozen qualifying conditions, and the number of patients enrolled has grown to 45,440. But leaders of the state’s licensed dispensaries say the proliferation of delta-8 has made a noticeable dent in their customer base.
Nico Richardson, interim CEO of Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, one of three medical cannabis companies licensed in Texas, said the number of active patients in the program — those who have filled at least one prescription in the last six months — has dipped by from 47 percent to 38 percent over the last year, a loss of about 3,000 patients, which he attributes at least in part to the availability of delta-8.
The medical dispensaries and some consumer advocates warn that delta-8 products come with some risk, as they aren’t subject to the same rigorous testing requirements and other regulations.
“We just don’t know what the safety profile is,” Richardson said about delta-8, whereas “our medicine is very highly regulated, and a high level of scrutiny goes into testing.”
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“DEATH, FOOD, SEX
Bed, Bread and Dead: The Dummies’ Guide to Herodotus
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Herodotus has to be my favourite ancient historian. Hailed as both ‘father of history’ and ‘father of lies’, he wrote a history of the time of the Persian Wars that was everything the later Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars was not: racy, dodgy and fond of tangents. It’s from Herodotus that many of the best stories of ancient Greece come. For example, in Book 6.127-129 he tells the tale of Hippocleides, who was doing pretty well in the contest to win the hand of the daughter of Cleisthenes until he drank rather more than he could handle and danced on a table, ending by standing on his head and beating time with his legs. Cleisthenes told him he’d blown his chances and Hippocleides replied ‘It’s all the same to Hippocleides!’
When I used to teach Herodotus to first-year students at university, I developed a simple way of remembering the basic points about how he categorizes different peoples: bed, bread and dead. That’s to say, when describing anyone, whether that’s the Egyptians or the Amazons, the main things that grip him are what they do sexually, what they eat and how they deal with their dead.
Different ways of handling marriage fascinate him. He tells us that the Babylonians run an annual marriage market in which the unmarried women of each village are graded by their looks and auctioned off, starting with the most beautiful. When these are all sold, the less attractive are given a dowry from the proceeds of the sale, so that all end up married.
He frequently goes into the details of burial customs. The Thracians lay out the bodies of the dead for three days. At the funeral of a king, the Scythians kill one of his concubines and various other personal attendants, then get high on hemp, before killing more servants – and horses – a year later.
He is particularly interested in those who mix up the categories of bed, bread and dead – for example, the Egyptian mummifiers who like to have sex with the corpses of attractive women before mummifying them, or the Issedones who eat their dead fathers, mixing up the flesh with some lamb, and then gild their skulls.
It’s still debated whether stories like this contain any truth, but they were clearly very appealing to Herodotus and to his audience. So why were these the big three areas of interest? The ancient Greeks had very clear ideas about what was ‘normal’ and ‘right’ in each of them. Marriage should be between one man and one woman, arranged by their families. The Amazons come out as pretty weird here, because in various ancient versions of their customs, they either have an annual sex binge with the men of a neighbouring tribe, or they have tame men who are lamed to stop them running away. And in Herodotus they need to kill three men in battle before they are allowed to marry.
Food should consist of what is cooked, not what is raw, and a key aspect of this was the staple product of bread. The dead should be treated with appropriate respect and placed in the earth; think here of the play Antigone in which the disrespectful treatment of the body of the heroine’s brother is at the heart of the drama. Those who had contact with a corpse were polluted. There were rules on how a corpse should be prepared for burial, on where people could be buried, and on how long the period of mourning should last. Eating people was wrong – but so was a completely vegetarian diet.
Bed, bread and dead: so important in ancient Greek anthropology, precisely because they were the areas of human life by which the Greeks defined themselves.”
https://mistakinghistories.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/bed-bread-and-dead-the-dummies-guide-to-herodotus/
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Helen King (see how she describes her career and work on https://mistakinghistories.wordpress.com/about/ )
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