Museum Visitors, Part 1.

"Neptune's vase" design and lineart for this year's second lino print !

Too many leftists are still glorifying work for work's sake. Too many leftists have equated "performing labor" with "moral fortitude."

If your ideal society has no place for people who genuinely, fully, 100% do not want to work, or who can't work, your ideal society is not as ideal as you think. There has to be space for people who don't "contribute," there has to be space for people who don't fulfill some greater "purpose," there has to be space for people who cannot and will not ever be a part of the labor force.

I am a firm believer that laziness does not exist, and if someone is flat-out refusing to do something, there's a good reason for it. That reason could be disability, it could be fear, it could be a lack of education, it could be that they're confused or lost and don't fully understand what they're supposed to do, it could be that they don't have the skills, it could be that they're at their limit and need a break, it could be that the task is uninteresting or not relatable to them and they don't understand why it's necessary, it could be countless other reasons. "They're just lazy" is a cruel assumption that doesn't solve any problems or accomplish any tasks.

But even if I'm wrong, and laziness is real, you can't penalize "laziness" without hitting a lot of disabled or otherwise vulnerable people in the crossfire. You cannot and will not ever create a society in which everyone is a perfect worker. There has to be a way for someone to contribute absolutely nothing to the labor force, but still be taken care of instead of left to needlessly suffer.

When I walked through the park yesterday morning I looked up at the surrounding buildings and in the shadows of the sun, against the blue sky, the man working on the roof there looked like a seated Sphinx.

Would you like some ducks in these trying times ?

Hadn't seen this over on tumblr yet. Thieving artist alert:

(Note I am not OP) Just sharing along form my ofmd peeps.

forever and always insane about the fact that haunting means "heimsuchen" in german which literally translates to "homeseeking". a haunting is a search for a home you can never return to

Some expressions studies with this nice copic brush

Meghann Stephenson (American, 1990) - Why Be a Cut Flower When You Can Be a Weed? (2024)

Lev St. Valentine

Honestly, I hate the fact that I can't seem to be able to color properly. It's truly bothering me. When I see other people's artwork and process it seems so clear-cut, but when I do it, it's just so hazardous and ultimately shit. It keeps me from doing the pieces I wanna do, so fucking frustrating...