teagan white

They need the world to be as ugly and absent of possibility as their lives, their souls. They need everything to be a mirror, and the only truly trustworthy mirror for what is inside them is a pile of broken bodies, a mound of dust and sand, a rubble strewn field

Beauty is not in and of itself resistance and there are fascistic and police modes of beauty, but any beauty that falls outside the profitable, the ordained, the dominant is an affront to them, a fearful sign of a world without them

The goal of the US and Israel is to reduce all blooms to desert

this is so good i might cry about it

@royalghostmarch.bsky.social i’d kiss that loon

ignore all advice that doesn’t feel right for you. everyone thinks that what worked for them is what everyone else HAS to do; i never did half the things in this thread, and if you tried to do them all you’d be exhausted and confused. no rules is the best part about being an artist

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

Under Sail

Under Sail https://www.wikiart.org/en/andrew-wyeth/under-sail

Some things I quite nastily shouted at someone telling me about ai in a dream just then:
“I have so many ideas that I couldn’t finish them all if I lived for another 10 lifetimes”
“An ai cannot look at this heather the way I can, it just can’t, it’s impossible, that’s impossible, that’s art”

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Line-etching on zinc

Aquatint + line-etching on zinc

🥹👋

grey and pale plue painting of a red-bellied sapsucker perched on a piece of dead ivy branch, filled with barkborer holes and lines, that wraps around the bird in a cage-like way.

occupied cavities • 11” x 14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

this world isn’t big enough for two gall-focused artists, but we’re glad to have you regardless

“slow down, look around, drag yourself across the ground”
@teaganwhite.bsky.social and my collaborative show is up now through november 4th at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, OR

https://riverseagallery.com/slow-down-look-around-drag-yourself-across-the-ground

monochrome black & tan cyanotype of a watercolor painting, a dead wood pewee with an open chest and vacant eye, with bullet galls growing on it

monochrome black & tan cyanotype of a watercolor painting, a dead spotted towhee with a vacant eye, with large oak galls growing on it

monochrome black & tan cyanotype of a watercolor painting, a dead vireo with a vacant eye, with papery speckled galls growing on it

twig • branch • leaf

three cyanotypes toned in black walnut, for my upcoming collaborative show with @jessenarens.bsky.social, opening October 11th at Riversea Gallery in Astoria OR

the whole show is so beautiful vanessa!

partially submerged cyanotype of a fireweed silhouette superimposed over a burned tree dripping sap

sorry but describing this is a pointless endeavor

a good shape formed by a stick in water and its reflection

a good shape formed by a stick in water and its reflection

a good shape formed by a stick in water and its reflection

a good shape formed by a stick in water and its reflection

haha sure would

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing This fall, the new luddites are rising

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.

This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.

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Would they be able to get away with all this if we didnt have to go to work? Do work, rent and bills only exist to produce profit, or is it just as importantly a function of social pacification, punishment and control? Is the economy just about money, or is it also about power?

thank you, yes i assumed that was the case, but it’s strange that they suddenly started embossing it backwards on the back instead of onto the front (though i prefer it, it means less wasted paper). what paper do you use now?

thanks, i’ll look into trying sennelier too! i’m not seeing it in 300lb online, do you know if they make weights over 150? also realizing paper size is going to be an issue because i’m planning work larger than 22x30, i don’t think anyone but fabriano makes a hot press roll or oversized sheet 😔

compared to now, when my washes look very uniform, paint feels like it sits on the surface, and also absorbs almost on contact so i get more of a drybrush feeling. i’ve also had issues with paper pilling in spite of not being overworked, which never used to happen

i’m not sure how to describe what i liked about the old paper, but there was a way that the paint seemed to be suspended for longer while i worked, and so that pigment spread itself out very organically and then settled deeply into the paper, which made it look very glowy and lush?

oh no you must’ve gotten a defective one, it usually has that woven look on one side (that i don’t use), and the texture on the other side is softer and more random

thanks nicole, i might have to give it a try! i wouldn’t worry too much, the issues with fabriano production are very well known dating back to 2016, a lot of botanical artists switched to other papers. i still miss the old stuff every day, you couldn’t make a bad mark on it, some kind of witchcraft

for context i use traditional white 300lb hot press fabriano artistico. i buy in large batches so it’s been a couple years since i ordered, but i haven’t had a good batch since ~2019 (i know they changed it). considering trying out arches…