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Tile flooring at the Oceanário de Lisboa, an aquarium in Lisbon, Portugal
recent pet portrait comm, really happy with how this turned out :)
i'm super sorry for saying this but. sometimes i come across official ESO art and i feel like. it's a machine feeding off its previous products. too much recycling, no imagination, no new brains in the mix, no new inspirations. what made morrowind's art so unique was giving some crazy 20 year old a chance to do something new. or employing the miracle that was adam adamowicz. not judging someone's portfolio based on how closely you can resemble The Brand.
i see a lot of art filled with plants, like, in the american art scene there seems to be a kind of general movement towards and appreciation of ruined structures being overtaken by nature. offices full of dead computers and leaves. walls with ivy. old factories crawling with new growth. a symbol of degrowth, of new futures that devour and reject colonial modernism, of a refutation of the tyranny over land. it's a nice sentiment.
but consistently im noticing something odd, which is that over and over the plants depicted in art are very familiar -- they're houseplants. pothos. monstera. calathea. zamioculcas. plants growing in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong climate, a mishmash of unrelated folks with far-flung origins symbolizing "natural" retaking of the modern world.
plants, specifically, that are directly tied to the legacy of colonialism. from northern africa. from southern america. from india. plants that were collected as curios during periods of direct imperialism. plants kept as trophies, plants sold at high prices. plants that are "exotic". that are beautiful. that are high-value. plants whose people got no payment for their capture.
they're the plants people in american colonial territory, who lack access to native plant community, see most often -- that is, other than "weeds". and so when these artists reach for the pure idea of plant, the concept of nature, these plants are their only blueprint. dragging with them all of the baggage of hundreds of years of empire.
it's incredible how much this changes the messaging of the image. dreams of ecological participation stained with a creeping theme of alienation from their native biosphere. the thumbprint of colonialism, clear as day. a hopeful vision of the future, kneecapped by its own symbology. hundreds of individual artists so alienated from their own ecosystems that even their fantasy of participation with nature is inextricable from colonialist trophies. trying to imagine reclaiming the world.

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patterns left by woodworms on driftwood
I was today years old when I learnt about what those symbols in Aboriginal art represented I honestly can't believe we never got taught that, even when I was studying art. I always assumed they had meaning but no one [no white person] had ever bothered to mention it. I'm glad I learnt something new today.
Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to look down on Aboriginal art because they think it's a form of abstract art that is just lines and shapes but almost all of them tell a story. Sometimes it's a very obvious story, such as the emu dreaming where the waterhole flooded, and sometimes it's more symbolic.
the circle in the middle is a waterhole/dam or billabong. The squiggly lines coming out of it are small rivers. the dots represent the earth but because they are in neat lines, it almost feels as if they have been flattened by the flooded water, especially as the vector lines draw out from the waterhole in the middle. the emu tracks are heading toward the waterhole, and the three lines in the middle are marks left by their tail, implying that they are wading through the mud to get there.
It's a birdseye view of a moment just after the waterhole floods and afterwards the emus go looking for food.
It's Interesting, because the original artist D. J. Ross was from Yuendumu which is in central australia, so this would have been a rare time that there was enough rain to flood the waterhole.
Dreaming stories, kinship links, sacred rites, keeping track of biodiversity and songlines are some other topics covered by Aboriginal art.
In the same way monet painted the middle class and the local landscape in the late 1800's/early 1900's Aboriginal people also paint the average lifestyle of our people. It just looks different.
For example, this picture shows a LOT of activity. The men at the top left of the picture are doing a cultural burn near and around a sacred site, the women at the bottom left are digging for food. across the river, on the right the people are preparing food and in the center, two people (presumably elders) are preparing for a ceremony.
I wouldn't say these all happened at the same time, more that this was a common undertaking over a set of time.
it takes time to understand and not all symbols are the same in all areas, but once you do understand them it becomes easier to see the story being told.
So yeah, I hope this gives you the chance to look at Aboriginal art with new eyes
Cool article from the U.S. National Gallery of Art about Aboriginal art
Oh this link is really good.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are warned the link features names of the deceased.
The fantastical art of Dutch artist Franciscus Johannes Gijsbertus van den Berg aka Johfra Bosschart 1919 - 1998
Ok wrt recent asks about cultural worldbuilding, here's a drive folder with a very large collection of mostly nonfiction (~142 books right now), kept to a Very loose theme of history and social sciences, in pdf or epub format.
History (largely pre-modern period but not entirely), material culture, trade and economics, agriculture, magic and religion, folktales, (epic) poetry, natural history, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, kinship, animal social history, etc. Wildly variable mix of books for general readership and academic audiences.
This is assembled through a combination of PDFs I'd already accumulated, my library checkout history, reading list, and things I found in the process of making this. I have not read every single thing in here (some I’ve only read parts of, some I haven’t touched) and can’t attest to the quality of every book, this is just an assemblage of potentially worthwhile reading.
Stardew valley socks. Knit by me, pattern by oakwoodknits

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*person who is obsessed with elder scrolls voice* im getting elder scrolls vibes from this...
Sunset in winter (Edmund Foerster, 1872)
Meteor Shower, oil on panel by Mia Bergeron
Gundula Blumi - Fata Morgana
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Betty Tompkins, Sex Painting #5, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 44 x 77 in. (111.8 x 195.6 cm.)
My childhood (1980s) unicorn postcard collection. I believe these were all by the same artist, Andy Mack / Aardvark Art.