#diedrick

[neo-kajatrash]

Modern AU outfits for Grey, Diedrick, and Kenth, featuring bands I associate with each that they would absolutely listen to x3

[goblin-rise]

Character Playlists!

I figured I'd share the lists of songs I associate the most with each character. Also it's only included in Diedrick's to keep it concise, but Caer by Faun is one of my favorites that encompasses the whole story.

Diedrick's playlist

Grey's playlist

Kenth's playlist

[cruelrhythm]

don’t waste another day.

[garadinervi]

Diedrick Brackens, mind of my mind, (cotton and acrylic yarn), 2024 [Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Kinderhook, NY. © Diedrick Brackens]

[geryone]

Diedrick Brackens, ingredients for lovers, 2022

[kakaji]

Diedrick Brackens, how to approach a foal, 2024. © Diedrick Brackens. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

[smoresie]

victorian era yaoi...

[travelingasafamily]

"crabbing" by Lucille Clifton

(the poet crab speaks)

pulling into their pots our wives our hapless children. crabbing they smile, meaning us i imagine, though our name is our best secret. this forward moving fingered thing inedible even to itself, how can it understand the sweet sacred meat of others?

Art: Bitter Attendance Drown 2018, a Woven cotton, acrylic yarn, and polyester organza artwork by Diedrick Brackens

[negrolicity]

Diedrick Brackens - romance and logistics 2023

[longlistshort]

Diedrick Brackens' weavings for blood compass, currently at Jack Shainman's two New York City locations, have a mystical language all their own. In the gallery's newest space, inside the landmark Clock Tower Building, his creations look particularly majestic.

From the gallery-

In these weavings, the artist maps an imagined place —visualizing the internal mechanisms and symbols that animate his work while removing the anchor of direct narrative. The scenes depicted in each weaving exist out of time, suspended between a distant past and a world to come. The works in this series are set at dusk, twilight, and deep night—hours that become vehicles for ritual and interiority. The silhouetted inhabitants of this in-between realm are archetypes that Brackens once described as ciphers, or “needles through which I slip the threads of biography and myth, and pass through a mesh of history and context.”

His figures are accompanied by an ecosystem of symbols and shapes that have recurred over the course of his practice. The animals, natural elements, and man-made objects, accrue significance every time they are cast in this ever-evolving mythology. The characters in this series are placed in dialogue with lightning bolts, waning suns, and sourceless orbs of light—open-ended devices of orientation. In these distilled arrangements, footholds for straightforward interpretation dissolve—inviting viewers to parse the compositions and uncover meaning.

Brackens’ semiotic language emerges from lived experience, but also through revisiting books, poems, and legends. In blood compass, some of these references—alluded to in his titles— include the novel Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler, the poem “How you might approach a foal” by Wendy Videlock, and the Bible’s parable of the prodigal son. These stories, though dramatically diverse in genre and subject, speak to Brackens’ inclination to loop, lose, and locate one’s self in that which is known, but also to shape-shift, forming new meaning from that which is “familiar.” He approaches these symbols—weighted with memory, context, and history—with fresh eyes or, as Videlock’s poem concludes, ”like you / are new to the world.”

The show closes downtown on 5/24, but continues through 6/1/24 at the Chelsea location where the selections below are from.

[neo-kajatrash]

Look at the difference of about 6 years, yet with the same basic intention. These two were always meant to be out camping in their story, and I'm so glad they are for real now <3

[goblin-rise]

Chapter 2

[totalposer]

[garadinervi]

Diedrick Brackens, beyond the yard, (woven cotton and nylon yarn, bleach), 2015 [Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Kinderhook, NY. © Diedrick Brackens]

[alephnol]

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