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New Pikmin Bloom Loading Screen for Spring! I don't have much to say anymore. I hope everyone's been doing good ^^

Steelblue Ladybird Beetles (Halmus chalybeus), family Coccinellidae, Australia

Mark Rothko, No 14 / No. 10 (Yellows and Greens), 1953

Oil on canvas

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society  

After ten years of most people in the world seeing this painting as strongly yellow with a whisper of green intermixed, I’m very happy to be able to bring you this very recent look at it. And it sure is pretty.

"I miss Odysseus; my heart is melting. / The suitors want to push me into marriage, but I spin schemes... By day I wove the web, / and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it."

I made this feverish, unwinding loom for @youremysunshine8 's bday, since she is reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

It's made from an old painting frame with the canvas removed. I painted the wood a darker color and hammered in a couple hundred tacks, which I strung with white yarn.

The weaving itself took a long time, since I've never done that before and wasn't using a real loom, though I did make a make-shift heddle from a ruler. The meander is woven in soumak, which means you wrap the weft around each warp instead of just going over-under; this takes a long time but gives it a really cool dimension.

fan poster for luca guadagnino’s challengers (2024)! prints available here