knee-deep in the bouillon

'Conducted by an Angel' (from The Divine Comedy, Purgatory), 1807, John Flaxman

Dandelion shoot, 2026-05-11

this is so fucking funny i cant even be mad

Some God, 28 x 22 inches, oil on linen

i loved working on this! probably gonna do more in the future

Vsevolod Tarasevich, Factory series, 1965-70

naiche, "painting of a girl's puberty ceremony," c.1907, chamois skin and paint

Surprisingly modern designs in this French silk sample book, circa 1900: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/french-silk-sample-book

Johann Nepomuk Hoechle (Austrian, 1790-1835), Beethoven's Room at the Time of his Death [Beethoven's study in the Schwarzspanierhaus, his final residence, painted three days after the composer's death], 1827, ink and wash.

Just swimming by to say hello. 🦭

hair by nikki nelms & photography by adrienne raquel

Albert Robida illustration from Octave Uzanne’s “The End of Books” (1894), the French bibliophile’s story imagining how printed text might disappear in the face of rapid advances in phonographic technology: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/octave-uzannes-the-end-of-books-1894

Bertie & Jeeves

More Berties that I’d forgotten I drew

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

Four (of eleven) lithographs by Leonora Carrington depicting her costume designs for a theatrical production of S. Ansky’s play “The Dybbuk”: 1) “Leye y Frade” (1974), 2) “Leye Returns Transformed Into the Dybuk” (1974), 3) “The Messenger” (1974), and 4) “The Rabbi” (1974).

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.