#deformation

Younguk Yi — A portrait of one acting as though conjuring spells while commanding an obedient dog. (acrylic on linen, 2025)

Wallace Polsom, Ask Me No Questions CXCII (04 Mar 2026), paper collage, 26.2 x 33.3 cm.

Deformation, Paul Blanca, c. 2005

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In their natural habitat, fire ants experience frequent floods and so developed the ability to form rafts. Entire colonies will float out a flood in a two-ant-thick raft anchored to whatever vegetation they can find. Because ants in the upper layer of the raft are constantly milling about, the rafts have some ability to "self-heal" as they're stretched. (Image credit: top - Wikimedia Commons, others - C. Chen et al.; research credit: C. Chen et al.; via APS Physics) Read the full article

Nouvelle version de Salomé avec la tête de saint Jean-Baptiste (espérons que cette vague goût Bacon se termine vite pour passer à quelque chose de plus digeste). Acrylique et collage sur papier 9,8 x 6,4 inches / 25 x 16,2 cm

distortion

via Iga Higi Yaningsih on FB.