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Peacock Gate 🦚

Rick Stevens (American, 1958)

"Autumn Glow" n.d.

more vaporeon x fish variations ! i finally got time to make some new ones traditionally (you can find the old digital vaporeons x fish here)

from top to bottom there is :

Coelacanth vaporeon : water x rock

Angelfish vaporeon : water x psychic

Koi vaporeon : water x fire

Dojo loach vaporeon : water x ground

One thing that consistently feels very jarring to me is how these cultures that I think mostly have tile and cement floors go about floor cleaning. Every time they dump a bucket of soapy water across the floor and start scrubbing away, part of my mind goes OMG!, because you really cannot be doing that in the stick -built wooden houses I've grown up with and lived around.

Hell, we had to replace the vinyl flooring in the back entrance of the old house because it had all come up just from repeated exposure to wet boots and frozen chicken waterers thawing. It was just plywood subfloor for a while. In this house, there's a bit in front of the fridge where a seam is slightly lifted up from the old fridge leaking as it died. These are both relatively cheap floors, but most modern American houses just aren't designed to be slopping water around.

but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao

and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed

and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways

which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something

Солнечный город "Sunny City" - No date given.

Мир "World" - No date given.

Чусовские просторы. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.

октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm

Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm

Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976

One thing that consistently feels very jarring to me is how these cultures that I think mostly have tile and cement floors go about floor cleaning. Every time they dump a bucket of soapy water across the floor and start scrubbing away, part of my mind goes OMG!, because you really cannot be doing that in the stick -built wooden houses I've grown up with and lived around.

Hell, we had to replace the vinyl flooring in the back entrance of the old house because it had all come up just from repeated exposure to wet boots and frozen chicken waterers thawing. It was just plywood subfloor for a while. In this house, there's a bit in front of the fridge where a seam is slightly lifted up from the old fridge leaking as it died. These are both relatively cheap floors, but most modern American houses just aren't designed to be slopping water around.

This is "Arras", by Mark Lewanski, and the medium is G L A S S.