持ち物 (be)longings

And I want to use the same pair of green shoes for some two years Make them worn and tired I want a big steady backpack Carry it with me through fields and mountains endless I want to carry my body light  Thoughts only of today and the smell Of food I’ve never had before I want to carry you  With me 

Minoru Onoda    Gutai

painting on plywood

spirals are the truth of the universe

neolithic people were like these rocks need spirals. and they were right.

Looking 4 mutuals!!

I made this Tumblr in order to be able to share my favourite pieces of, mostly, traditional art but I'd also love to engage with other art enjoyers and even artists. I also make art from time to time but I'm still not very comfortable with it as to share it here.

Feel free to send me a message if you want to be art mutuals :)

Becchi Ayumi, Untitled, 2023 & 2022

I love the fact that this artist isn't afraid to use colours wherever they see fit. The first piece is filled with details not always decipherable but there is a clear repeated motif: the tree. In fact, the image at the centre appears to be a cut trunk of a tree seen from above. Maybe all the images surrounding it are the many things the tree saw in its life. In the second piece the artist explains in their original post on Instagram that they used a leaflet they got at Nagoya's City museum. At first I thought the leaflet was only used in the right hand page but if you look closely, the head from the figure appears to also have been cut and pasted on its colourfully detailed body.

J.J. Ellis, Crown of Moss (2023)

Ellis uses a beautiful mix of colours here, creating a painting that has more to it than meets the eye. The myriad of shades of green create an amazing language with the big yellow in the centre of the canvas. I'm a big fan of the yellow, and what appear to be chalk, lines over some of the forms, but I love even more the use of reds. The silly red line that crosses the canvas in combination with the red and orange dots above it tie the whole painting together. It's in these two elements where I can come to see the crown mentioned in the title. I find this painting's language to be so fun yet really soothing.

Joan Mitchell, Sans neige (1969)

One of my favourites from Mitchell, the fun colours are used in energetic bold strokes and blobs, but we can also find little dancing worms here and there. I also like how she used blank space as a world-building tool, allowing the painting to breathe and the colours to pop even more. I can see her having fun but also taking her time to ponder what paint to grab next. The artist Stanley Whitney said “This painting dances.” and I agree, to me it's like the colours are dancing at a festival filled with music.

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics