Tavares Strachan (Bahamian, b. 1979)

The First Supper (Galaxy Black), 2023. bronze, black patina and gold leaf

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Reposted from @darrenwalker A groundbreaking exhibition “Entangled Pasts”at @royalacademyarts. Featuring an arresting installation by @tavaresstrachan “The First Supper (Galaxy Black)” in the courtyard of Burlington House (listen to the hustle and bustle of Piccadilly in the background). Bravo @axelruger @arthistorianbyday @ablackhistoryofart Sarah Lea, Prof. Cora Gilroy-Ware, Dr. Esther Chadwick on an inspiring and intelligent show!

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[The art is "The First Supper" by Susan Dorothea White] + Imagine the Angels of Bread - by Martín Espada

This is the year that squatters evict landlords, gazing like admirals from the rail of the roof-deck or levitating hands in praise of steam in the shower;

this is the year that shawled refugees deport judges who stare at the floor and their swollen feet as files are stamped with their destination;

this is the year that police revolvers, stove-hot, blister the fingers of raging cops, and nightsticks splinter in their palms;

this is the year that dark-skinned men lynched a century ago return to sip coffee quietly with the apologizing descendants of their executioners.

This is the year that those who swim the border's undertow and shiver in boxcars are greeted with trumpets and drums at the first railroad crossing on the other side;

this is the year that the hands pulling tomatoes from the vine uproot the deed to the earth that sprouts the vine, the hands canning tomatoes are named in the will that owns the bedlam of the cannery;

this is the year that the eyes stinging from the poison that purifies toilets awaken at last to the sight of a rooster-loud hillside,

pilgrimage of immigrant birth; this is the year that cockroaches become extinct, that no doctor finds a roach embedded in the ear of an infant;

this is the year that the food stamps of adolescent mothers are auctioned like gold doubloons, and no coin is given to buy machetes for the next bouquet of severed heads in coffee plantation country.

If the abolition of slave-manacles began as a vision of hands without manacles, then this is the year; if the shutdown of extermination camps began as imagination of a land without barbed wire or the crematorium, then this is the year;

if every rebellion begins with the idea that conquerors on horseback are not many-legged gods, that they too drown if plunged in the river,

then this is the year.

So may every humiliated mouth, teeth like desecrated headstones, fill with the angels of bread.

—Martin Espada [Rob Brezsny]

The First Supper (2019)

最初の晩餐 The First Supper (2019)  directed by Shiro Tokiwa cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto

Tavares Strachan’s dog at The First Supper

some stuff I’ve been working on….

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here are my full designs for these two <3

i offer,,, lcb kitties part 1

When it was time for Emma's and Niall's birthdays, they decided to host a double birthday party for their combined family and friends. It was a huge celebration, so much so that they had to add chairs to the table, and even then, there were not enough places to sit. Thankfully, during the party, every one was constantly on the move, viewing the house, helping with food, and entertaining Louis, so nobody missed out in the end.

The party was great fun to be had for all. It was so much fun, in fact, that Emma had barely noticed that one guest was missing from the group.

Bonus cuteness:

Can’t listen to this song (breakfast for dinner) without thinking of the ‘horrible from supper’ speech so! here’s this!

(For my @theterrorbingo prompt square “dive helmet”)

omg reverse riko au is making me feel so ill..... please let us know if you have any more thoughts abt riko kayleigh and kevin legend.....

I DO my idea is that its around the same age kevin and riko met in canon so tetsuji kicks the bucket when riko is 7/8 and riko is (very forcibly) removed from the nest and sidelined to kayleigh as a new moriyama asset from the main branch takes over the nest. riko struggles a lot with the change because he is very young and very scared and he’s used to horrible things at tetsuji’s hand, which means that he doesn’t trust kayleigh and finds kevin entirely too weird. it’s honestly really cute because i think at this point obviously 7 year old kevin wants to befriend him but riko is such an anxious ball of anger that most of their interactions are like

baby riko: what do you WANT from me. go AWAY!!!! NOW

baby kevin: (heavy irish accent) nothing i think. do you want a bite of my sandwich?

anyway i think riko and kayleigh do get along but he never really considers her his mother or even godmother, for a long time he thinks of her as his Benefactor until the child therapy starts hitting and she becomes Aunt Kayleigh and then after a few more years he can be loosely convinced to refer to her as auntie once or twice a year. his second son syndrome never really leaves him; in the upcoming years riko struggles with the idea that he’s anything But an add-on to the days and still overworks himself to death trying to be acknowledged by kengo, but it’s leaps better just from being outside the nest and having people to look out for him

riko and kevin have some rough patches, especially during riko’s first years with the days. because kevin is an easy target and riko is afraid of kayleigh he ends up letting a lot of that anger out on kevin, though obviously at this point they are children and riko’s anger manifests in some mild bullying and name calling. i think kevin doesn’t even understand it most of the time 😭 riko has been around grown ups his entire life so his adult level insults make no sense to kevin’s seven year old mind. nevertheless after kayleigh tells him to stop picking on kevin riko does respect it (first out of fear, then later because they actually get along) and they go on to become brothers with only a slight tendency towards antagonism. riko’s jealousy of kevin is still a big part of their relationship and i think even more so when college applications roll around, and he’s even more worried when wymack comes into the picture, but it never culminates into anything as horrible as hand breaking because riko has an actual outlet and a support system :) it’s mostly a yelling match that eventually turns to getting scolded by kayleigh for acting like barbarians

blueberries on supertramp vinyls wannabe supper in america moment

transgender cosplay duo idea: hatsune mike x ikari shinjette

yeah sure why not

look away im gonna catholic-post for a second

scorsese wants to do a jesus movie and i just know it will be all doom and gloom and serious as fuck and jesus is gonna be this wise beyond his years dude burdened by his purpose and i cannot emphasize enough how NOT biblically accurate that is, jesus is so unserious for the son of god

Simple But Sacred

For I have received of the Lord - Kurios that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he broke [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament (a covenant, ratified in death) in my blood: this do you, as oft as you drink [it], in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord - Kurios’s death till he come. — 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | New Messianic Version Bible (NMV) The New Messianic Version Bible by Tov Rose © 2012. All Rights Reserved. Cross References: Exodus 24:6; Exodus 24:8; Exodus 28:12; Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:17; John 21:22-23; 1 Corinthians 4:5

how will we ever get the spark to wonder, question, and think deeply about art when someone says a prompt or two into a generator, and out comes a painting that doesnt mean anything, because nobody took the time to tell a story within it? how can anybody do that if the art has no meaning like with ai art? when it isnt meticulously crafted by the complex mind of a creative human?

you cant tell an ai to convey the hurt and betrayal of a mortal against their own hubris as they fall off of the high horse they pitched themselves upon the way that a human would, because ai isnt human. it will never be human. and to compare ai art to human art and call them equals is dehumanization, and it strips art of every power it has ever had across the whole of human history.