A Joyful Brabble

Pine bark beetle patterns on surface of inner bark. Catalogue of exhibits of insect enemies of forests and forest products. 1904. 

Ewa Juszkiewicz (Polish, b. 1984, Gdańsk, Poland, based between Warsaw, Poland and New York, NY, USA) - Untitled (after Joseph Wright), 2020, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

Ewa Juszkiewicz, 'Untitled', oil on canvas, 50x40 cm, 2018

Ewa Juszkiewicz, 'Untitled (After Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun), oil on canvas, 150 x 115 cm, 2017

She painted so many of these - they are fantastic!

I tracked down a copy of this invaluable classic and somehow got my hands on a near pristine copy secondhand from the 4th printing. It’s lost the dustjacket, alas, but that means I got it for like £5 and not the £4200 a first edition printing in fine condition goes for.

(Who’s the author? *looks at smudge on spine* uhhhh Mkkhill Montanann)

It looks right at home in my bookcase 🥰

Under the cut: a look inside at what the book holds:

"Us? Oh, of *course* our Dachshund sleeps inside- we just let him out in the morning and make sure he comes back for dinner. He just does his own thing, no worries."

"Um, you know it's not humane to keep a chihuahua confined to an apartment? They're dogs, they're natural predators. They need to experience hunting behaviors or they get depressed. No we don't leash ours, he absolutely hates it, we just let him come and go whenever."

Yall get how fucking stupid that sounds, right? So stop letting your goddamn cats get eaten and attacked and infected and hit by cars

A toddler would probably love full unattended access to the neighborhood too, but we don't do that either, do we