#abstracts

[abstractlovin]

Ron Piller

[gbiechele]

Nice Ice

Helios 44M4 58mm f2.0

Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8

Sony A7

[lenamuellerart]

Drift # 19 / Wax pastel, linopaint on cardboard / ⁣148 x 210 mm / 2024

See also: www.instagram.com/lenamueller_artist

[eesirachs]

In the ancient world, gods beget life with carnal holes that are neither violent nor always already-there. These are holes made by divine fingers penetrating into clay, dirt, dust, molding and prodding substance until form becomes flesh. And though these holes share their collapse of the endogenous and exogenous with other bodily holes—such as wounds, orifices—there is a particular third-ness to their borderspace that evades all other forms of concavity (and the linguistic doubling of “forms” belies the overlap, here, between the corporeal form of created matter and stylistic form of the ancient creative genre.) From Atrahasis to Enuma Elish, through the familiar J-source Genesis and across more peripheral works such as Enki and Ninmah, the repeated ancient mode of engenderment is one of holes—both painless and not pre-existing—generating bodies at the very limits which un-do them. By comparing extant genesic narratives from the ancient Near East, this paper aims to perform a theopoetic, affective, (re)turn to creative concavity, or, the g(od) spot. At stake here is not only an illumination of how bodies of this ancient world made sense of themselves, but also, how bodies writ large are composed and composing, how flesh and figure and form knot around one another, and how this kind of carnal simultaneity proved holy/hole-y once and, perhaps, might still be meaningful today.

my paper on holes in ane creation stories

[briery]

“Overlooking these abstract patterns in the ocean..." in Big Sur, California, United States. By Nathaniel Wise on Instagram.

[dianthajune]

My abstract valentines (and My Little Pony valentine)

[magically-devious]

A set of framed original watercolors by @magicbubblepipe in champagne and silver frames 💛🩷💙

The first piece is of an abstract wine glass and the second is a green and orange abstract on 6x9 paper matted into an 8x10

[noelbobby]

Rain.

[thewanderingmask]

a Art

[tiffanydaleo]

“Last Page” is the last page in my 11” x 14” sketchbook. (Hey, when you paint every day, you run out of creative titles sometimes!😂) #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstracts #artwork #acrylicpainting #artoftheday #colorfulabstract #fineartamericaartist #intuitiveart #lastpage #makeart #newartwork #painting #painteveryday #prolific #sandiegoartist #tiffanyarpdaleo #womenartists #2023 (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfHtWHvvnz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[abstractlovin]

Barbara Gilhooly

[leslietempletonphotography]

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[lenamuellerart]

Leuchten # 24 / Watercolour, wax pastel on mould made paper / 265 x 395 mm / 2024

See also: https://www.instagram.com/lenamueller_artist/

[eesirachs]

No cuts, scars, modifications; no marks, nor ink. Flesh is to be unblemished, un-penetrated; never porous, not even when and where an orifice might beg porosity. Organs remain where they are meant to be. Bones, if ever removed, are taken only during sleep. Here, the biblical interdict against bodily inscription seems to render the body exhausted. It is not horizon, nor does it have horizontal spread. Its limits are marked, and marked well. And, perhaps most importantly, it is not site for body-writing. With brevity or ritualistic attention, conjugating rhetoric of Levitical prohibition, wielding imaginaries of the terms—"body” and “writing”—which fit ill on the ancient world, we might move easily, brazenly, across the skin within and of the biblical text. We might arrive, in fact, where we started: with a firm insistence that the Hebrew Bible leaves no space for body-writing. And yet body-writing—the act of inscribing unto or across the body—both generates and complicates its own limits. Body-writing exceeds any simple negotiation of the carnal and the semiotic which, nonetheless, gives permission to it. And it does in fact occur and recur in the Hebrew Bible. This paper will redress body-writing in the Hebrew Bible, reconsidering the ways in which bodies and writing are themselves configured. The exegetical method will be affective, theopoetic, attentive to holes and wholes, to organs and to the organic. The aim here is to explore the ways in which biblical narratives permit the unpermittable—that is, modification of the body—through use of totems. By a totemic, horizontal extension of the body’s limits, biblical figures and authors allow for an inscription process that proves cathartic, meaningful. So meaningful, in fact, that we might harvest something still from it, today.

my abstract on totems and body writing in the hebrew bible

[zoeflake]

[efthimistattoo]

Abstract and watercolor elements to cover an old tattoo.