the Goat
wouldn't it be fucked up that when the Goat gets the Purple Crown he immediately hunts down Lamb and violently tries to attack them., screaming and shouting they did this to him.
Then the Goat freaks out and starts hyperventilating and crying when the reality of the situation sinks in.
He's not happy the Purple Crown picked him, he's fucking scared and terrified of what this means. Instead of accepting that he's been chosen for his true nature, he wants to blame the Lamb for it all. After all, he talked to them a few months ago, their godlike germs must've gotten on him. Or they released the Purple Crown to be cruel.
He was rather violent and hot-headed as a doeling, he nor his parents knew why he was so aggressive. He threw tantrums, broke horns, broke limbs, and pushed and punched fellow kids. He even once bit a Priest when they mistakenly called him by the wrong name. A cold fire burned within him, and his parents were afraid (and deep down inside he was too) he'd never live a normal life, and would someday be banished from the community. But he couldn't stop himself, he was just so... so... angry at nothing. At everything.
However when he was chosen by his successor, her Master (which is the same species as the Mystic Seller) he was taught discipline and ways to calm himself. He grew out of his temper and roughness thanks to schedules and discipline, though he is rude to those who worship the Gods.
He's devoted to his Master because it pretty much soothed his rage, gave him not only powers, a halo, but a new title and shed his old identity. He was essentially reborn and would gladly spend a hundred years being its mouthpiece until it desired a new Messenger. He knew its true name, he knew its prayers inside and out.
After all, it is an ultimate being, one who can see the threads of the worlds, time means nothing to it, it can never age or die, even if it is forgotten about. Heretical Gods and entities that lurk in the world are beneath it and its kind. To become a worshipper of a God is a sin and heavily frowned upon.
So to lose his halo, to lose his title of Messenger, is horrifying on its own, he is now a false idol that the Priests lectured against. But... he's lost the one thing he turned to to help curb the aggression within him. He cannot remember its name, for mere mortals and Gods cannot comprehend its true name, nor the true name of the others,
He's also lost his community, a sadistic twist to what he feared all along. What his parents had worried about came true, just not in the way they expected.
And worst of all, the thing he once called 'My Lord' and sent prayers to, said absolutely nothing before his halo was replaced by the Purple Crown in his sleep. It essentially iced him out, and he'd later learn it only picked him to instill piety and discipline within him for the cycle that will never be broken. It nudged him to learn about the past and the mistakes that had been made by his predecessor. He had essentially been groomed to become a better God of War, not a Messenger.
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Sarah Meyohas, “Interference #19”, 2023, Holograms, mirrored black glass, aluminum
Georgia O’Keeffe, “Poppy”, 1927, Oil on canvas
Francis Picabia “The Church of Montigny, Effect of Sunlight” 1908, Oil on canvas (left); Christian Sampson “Projection Painting”, 2023, Acrylic and films with LED light; and Claude Monet “The Houses of Parliament, Effect of Fog, London” 1904, Oil on canvas (right)
The Nature of Art exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg merges art from the museum’s collection with loaned works to explore- “art’s crucial role in our evolving quest to understand our relationship with nature and our place in the cosmos”.
One of the benefits of an encyclopedic museum is that visitors have the opportunity to experience art throughout history, and to revisit works that resonate with them. For the section titled Artist as Curator, Sarah Meyohas and Christian Sampson chose pieces from the museum’s collection to pair with their own work.
From the museum-
At first glance, perhaps, these may seem like unusual combinations, but upon deeper contemplation, their selections reveal complementary artistic intents. For instance, Meyohas and Georgia O’Keeffe share an interest in close looking, particularly in finding new ways to examine underappreciated aspects of the natural world. Sampson, influenced by the California Light and Space Movement, is interested in current scholarship that suggests the hazy fog found in Claude Monet’s work is an early depiction of air pollution, offering an entirely new perspective on the artist’s representations of light.
Sampson also created the four-part installation, Tempus volat, hora fugit, on view until 2025 at the museum.
Below are some of the works from additional sections of the exhibition.
Postcommodity, “kinaypikowiyâs”, 2021, Four 30.5-metre industrial debris booms
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary art collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez (Genizaro, Manito, Xicano), and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee).
About Postcommodity’s work, kinaypikowiyâs, (seen above) from the museum-
This work is composed of debris booms, used to catch and hold environmental contaminants such as garbage, oil, and chemicals. The colors of the booms correspond to different types of threats— red (flammable), yellow (radioactive), blue (dangerous), and white (poisonous)-in the labeling system for hazardous materials. To indigenous peoples, these are shared medicine colors that carry knowledge, purpose and meaning throughout the Western Hemisphere. Suspended like hung meat, the booms represent a snake that has been chopped into four parts. Each part represents an area of the colonial map of the Western Hemisphere: South America, Central America, North America, and all of the surrounding islands. The title, kinaypikowiyâs, is a Plains Cree word, meaning snake meat. Divided by borders, Postcommodity asserts that all people living in the Americas are riding on the back of this snake.
James Casebere, “Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY), 2009, Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
James Casebere creates architecturally based models for the large scale photographs seen above.
Duke Riley's Reclaimed ocean plastic sculptures and “Tidal Fool” wallpaper
Duke Riley’s work, which was previously shown at Brooklyn Museum, addresses issues of environmental pollution by using discarded plastics found in the ocean and other waterways to create new work inspired by the past. You can hear him discuss his work in this video.
From the museum-
Inspired by the maritime museum displays he saw while a child growing up in New England, Riley’s scrimshaw series is a cutting observation of capitalist economies-historic and today-that endanger sea life. The sculptures were created for the fictional Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum, and are contemporary versions of sailors’ scrimshaw, or delicately ink-etched whale teeth and bone. Riley first thought about using plastic as an ode to scrimshaw when he saw what he thought was a whale bone washed up on the beach in Rhode Island; it turned out to be the white handle of a deck brush. Riley regularly removes trash from beaches and waterways, and often uses this refuse in his work.
Riley collaborated with Brooklyn-based Flavor Paper to create these two custom wallpapers for his solo exhibition DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash at the Brooklyn Museum. Tidal Fool exhibits Riley’s trademark humor in the face of devastating water pollution; notice the Colt 45-guzzling mermaid. Wall Bait vibrantly references Riley’s meticulous fishing lures, which he crafts from refuse found in the waters around New York City.
Daniel Lind-Ramos,"Centinelas de la luna nueva (Sentinels of the New Moon)", 2022-2023, Mixed media
From the museum about this work-
In Centinelas de la luna nueva, he evokes the elders of the mangroves, spiritual beings who watch over and ensure the health of this essential coastal tree. Mangroves are the basis for a complex ecosystem that shelters sea life and serves as the first line of defense in the tropical storms that batter the sub-tropics -including Florida.
Lind-Ramos's practice reflects the vibrant culture of his native Loíza, Puerto Rico, by honoring local agriculture, fishing, cooking, and masquerade. His sculptures also evoke Hurricane Maria (2017), the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing environmental degradation. Lind-Ramos is committed to the survival and sustenance of Afro-Taíno traditions and people of the Puerto Rican archipelago. However, his art engages the global community through shared emotions, parallel histories, and the commonality of human experience.
The next post will discuss two other artists in the exhibition, Brookhart Jonquil and Janaina Tschäpe.
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remember how I was literally just talking about proselytizing 😭 and how it's ok to straight up lie because they will use any information you give them to their advantage
uh well apparently these guys came by our house a while back when i wasn't home and my husband did NOT do that and told them we aren't religious and we're not looking to be (according to him he just had to eventually interrupt them midsentence with a "I have to go now" and slowly shut the door to end the conversation).
so they came by again this morning bc it's almost easter (or the Memorial of Jesus's Death as the JHs call it apparently) after Mr. SC had left but i don't open the door for anyone i don't know/am not expecting so I didn't talk to them. but they were still around the neighborhood when I took my dog out later, and told me about their "good" conversation with my husband and invited me to Jesus's Death service but they tried to lean up against my fence and my dog was not having it lol so fortunately I didn't have to make an awkward exit
according to him the people I saw today was not the same as the one he talked to, so they had to have taken notes abt the last visit so yea. it's not just the mormons y'all
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*me to one of my best friends out of no where*
Do you think Mary Magdalene is the feminine expression of Christ? That a world could have existed where she was the Savior and Jesus was the Apostle to the Apostles?
Because there is no male or female in Christ, and Christ, as the cosmic eternal life and conquerer of death and stagnation, is genderless and therefore can be both and all and none?
That she is the torch which illuminnates the bridge, and Christ is the bridge, but they're really the same thing? Welded to one another, interchangeable?
And under the torch and bridge flows a river, which is the Holy Spirit; and the river flows through the earth which is the Virgin Mary, also the foundation that the bridge rests upon?
And there is no true destination, only that the journey and the destination are one, and that the place of rest is the one you see on the other side?
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in which I continue zooting, and reading Paradise Lost, why not
<- Part 1 (in a Sense) || Part 3 ->
The Stygian Council thus dissolv’d; and forth
In order came the grand infernal Peers,
Midst came their mighty Paramount, and seem’d
Alone th’ Antagonist of Heav’n, nor less
Than Hell’s dread Emperor with pomp Supreme,
And God-like imitated State; him ’round
A Globe of fiery Seraphim enclos’d
With bright emblazonry, and horrent Arms.
This is the most Mean Girls entrance. I immediately envisioned Twink Satan in flowing skirts, and he’s swanning up toward the camera in slow motion, and each of his party slips in behind him, and every one has a visual tic like maybe someone’s slowly smoking a cigar or another is straightening their g-string—and rock music is playing and someone is clapping because you’re watching this in a filthy, filthy theater for some reason
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