@laurielipton.bsky.social
A drawing obsessive who is obsessively drawing
Two photos taken from the audience while I was Guest Lecturing at California State University, Chico, last Thursday. What a gorgeous campus and fabulous people!
17.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Many of us become accidental activists. Not out of rage, but out of heartbreak. Because somewhere along the way, we realized silence helps no one. Not the earth, not our children, not each other"- Paul Avellino ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper)
15.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 33 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
“By the time this is all over, we’re going to find out that Epstein was in the Trump Files “- Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social (“POST TRUTH 2017”, 8ftx9ft, charcoal and graphite on paper) #trumpisontheepsteinlist #lockhimupalready‼️
13.11.2025 14:51 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m getting older, not wiser #oneoutoftwo #happybirthdaytome🎉 #timeflies✈️
11.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
“ It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with “- Anais Nin (“DELUSION DWELLERS 2007”, 38”x48”, charcoal and graphite on paper)
09.11.2025 13:56 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Stop worrying about everything. "RAISE YOUR VIBRATION, FFS‼️ 2025", 24.8"x25", charcoal & graphite on paper
08.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
#releasethefiles
07.11.2025 03:56 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
#joyscrolling #midterms ("SCROLLING 2024", 41.75"x32.5", charcoal & graphite on paper)
05.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 41 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain & terror, we live in one world"-Alice Walker ("COLLATERAL DAMAGE 2005, charcoal & pencil on paper)
04.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0I was joking, but thanks for mansplaining it to me anyway 👍
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yes, but with more details
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"No art is possible without a dance with death"-Kurt Vonnegut ("DANCE HALL OF THE CORPSE COUPLES 2007", 33"x29.5", charcoal & graphite on paper) #DiadelosMuertos
01.11.2025 13:09 — 👍 50 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0Best thing you could have said to me! Saw her photos when I was a teenager at the Metropolitan Museum. Changed my life (and my art) xx
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#trickortreat👻 (“FACELIFT 2005”, pencil on paper, 21”x16”) #halloween2025🎃👻🕷️🦇
31.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 44 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0Thank you! xx
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27.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared"- Diary of Anne Frank, Jan.13, 1943 ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", charcoal&graphite on paper) #🚫🧊
27.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
This entire "presidency" is like being tied to a chair & watching a toddler play with a loaded gun ("NANNY'S BOY 2020", 17"x15.5", charcoal & pencil on paper)
25.10.2025 04:46 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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But he shut the government down because there's no money for healthcare...?
17.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
#NoKingsDay One thing we should never do is bow down to an administration fueled by hate, racism & fascism. I would rather stand alone with integrity than join a crowd built on ignorance & cruelty‼️ ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) 🇺🇸
17.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
The world will try to convince you that art is a luxury. It is not. Art is medicine. It heals in ways that cannot be measured or explained. It reaches places therapy cannot touch. What you do is not optional. It is essential.
15.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 78 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
“A government shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top & they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the President is WEAK!”-Donald Trump 2013 (“POST TRUTH 2017”, 4ft10x8ft9”, charcoal & graphite on paper) #governmentshutdown
14.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
