Unanottexxx - Una

should we kill them all?

Winter Light -   William H. Hays , n/d.

American, b. 1956 -

Color linocut reduction on paper, 12 x 9 in. 31 x 23.5 cm.  Ed. 20.

Siberian cows, 2019 - by Marina Fomina, Russian

I SWEAR THIS MAN DOES THIS ON PURPOSE. the way he tilts his head with a calm expression on his face like he accepted his fate is obviously a reference for jesus and he knows this. he literally deludes himself to think he is some sort of a savior and jesus, so much that he acts like one subconsciously. i mean of course asagiri is referencing all these stuff but it's not because fyodor really is jesus, it's because he thinks that he is. he sees himself above everyone and to him he is one of the few people who can 'save' everyone. look at him, bearing torture for our sins. oh god. i hate him

Late night stroll

post-revenge arc, mizu and ringo living in a cabin near the town. since she is 'available' for a duel to the death, taigen challenges her again and mizu accepts as she promised. problem is, they can't settle on a date and keep delaying it for stupidest reasons .d

ringo is going to try a new soba recipe for dinner and of course he'll need both sides' opinions. what if mizu's opinion is biased? they can't trust taigen's pricky ass too.

mizu said if taigen will come here and linger everyday, he better be useful and talk less. so he collects woods, helps mizu for training, chops onions for ringo (which ended up being a mini-duel between him and mizu because ringo deserves the best chopped onions from the best samurai). but taigen is not stupid, he isn't going to fall for mizu's 'make taigen exhausted-slash him easily' plan. it won't be a fair fight. taigen has to rest and mizu should help him, she is responsible after all.

as the weather gets warmer, rumors of a big festival spread. ringo is so excited, talks non-stop about how much him and his master will have fun but taigen doesn't agree. he bets joining a festival with mizu is like carrying a heavy rock around while you are trying to enjoy your trip. mizu isn't obsessed with honour unlike taigen but she can't let that slide too. she will show him that she knows how to have fun, even more than him. they'll kill each other after the festival then.

(spoiler: they won't)

I think it's cute how so many art movements are simply called "new art" to differentiate "not like the old stuff". Contemporary dance. New wave fashion. Pop (literally popular) music. Art Nouveau. Modernism. Postmodernism. Even terms starting with neo- (neo-classicism, neo-expressionism) all are just saying NEW ART. And yet all of these things are now distinctive styles of the past. It's kind of beautiful how humanity never stops outgrowing itself. Art is a state of matter that refuses to sit still, old as soon as it is new, original upon its thousandth performance, new forever so long as there is someone who has not yet seen it, and old the second the artist picks up their instrument again.

creating drives me crazy my fingers are wiggly my brain is just a jello i try to create from nothing from void and i go insane i sit there with nothing just my two hands and red eyes and lose my mind over void, over the possibility of creating something from that void