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Public Art in Bilbao (No. 2)

Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era and the attendant crisis of representation. With his stated artistic intention to “communicate with the masses,” Koons draws from the visual language of advertising, marketing, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between popular and elite culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs suspended in glass aquariums, photographs of himself coupled with his then-wife Ilona Staller, also known as La Cicciolina (former adult-film star and member of Italian parliament), and porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. In extending the lineage of Dada and Marcel Duchamp, and integrating references to Minimalism and Pop, Koons stages art as a commodity that cannot be placed within the hierarchy of conventional aesthetics. Koons’s series Easyfun-Ethereal foregrounds happy-face deli sandwiches, spiraling roller-coaster rides, and windswept hair all set against sublime landscapes. The artist combines familiar yet unrelated images to create collagelike paintings rendered with photorealist perfection. These works recall the advertising iconography and billboard-style painting technique present in James Rosenquist‘s canvases. Koons’s new brand of Pop painting cleverly engages other art-historical references, in particular Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Sandwiches, for example, is a disjunctive, free-floating fantasy. The collage of animated deli-meats, the turkey made of ice cream, and the cartoon eye and moustache recall the free-associative visual games of Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and René Magritte, while the background streams and splashes of milk echo the abstractions of Jackson Pollock. Koons’s fusion of Pop representations with Surrealist and abstract overtones creates a hybrid of fun and fantasy, yielding a body of work that depicts gravity-defying forms of dreamlike pleasure.

In Puppy, Koons engages both past and present, employing sophisticated computer modeling while referencing the 18th-century formal garden. A behemoth West Highland terrier carpeted in bedding plants, Puppy combines the most saccharine of iconography—flowers and puppies—in a monument to the sentimental. Its size—seemingly out-of-control (it is both literally and figuratively still growing) but carefully constructed and tightly contained—can be read as an analogue of contemporary culture. Dignified and stalwart, this work fills us with awe, and even joy, while standing guard at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In keeping with themes in his past work, Koons has, by combining elite references (topiary and dog breeding) with those of the masses (Chia Pets and Hallmark greeting cards), designed this public sculpture to relentlessly entice, to create optimism, and to instill, in his own words, “confidence and security.

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bellafarallones2 · 2 years

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scratch all you like, but only for me

Vinlo inspired by @thiswasinevitableid's excellent OT4 prompt fill. The AU is basically that anyone born in a certain village on October 31 (i.e., Indrid and Apollo) is cursed to turn into a giant man-eating cat whenever they feel a strong emotion. 1.6k words.

The first time Apollo saw the Capra estate, it was through the bars of a cage. The elegant topiary, the fine mahogany furniture, the scrollwork around the doorframes - his only thought then was how much fun it would be to destroy. As the cage was wheeled into the drawing room he mourned that the fireplace was empty and it’d be harder to set the place on fire.

Duke Capra crouched to see him better. “This is a person,” the duke said.

“It certainly hasn’t acted that way,” said the hunter who’d caught him. Apollo still hadn’t bothered to learn his name.

The duke, foolish man, unlatched the cage. “Vince, don’t -!” the hunter started, but he was too late. As soon as the door swung open Apollo leapt forward and bit into the man who’d freed him, teeth tearing into the arm he raised instinctively to protect his face.

But he’d hardly tasted blood when the hunter slammed into him, tackling him to the floor, and hunter and duke together wrestled him, snarling, back into the cage.

Breathing hard, Apollo studied them again through the bars. His whole side felt like it would bruise where he’d hit the ground. But the Duke’s maroon dressing gown was pushed up around his elbows, and blood was dripping red through the fabric of his white shirt and between the fingers of his other hand as he tried to quench the flow.

Yellow eyes slitted, Apollo licked his lips.

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Now, of course, he regretted that bite more than probably anything else. Certainly more than he regretted getting caught. Now, in bed, he studied the jagged pink of it, the scar his teeth had left on Vincent's perfect skin, and wished he’d had more foresight.

For the first few months Vincent had known him, Apollo looked like some strange combination of man and panther. He’d been captured in the woods of Silvain by one of Vincent’s… well, he wouldn’t call him a friend exactly. An old schoolmate. And the man had found him so unbearable he’d brought him to Vincent, apparently the most soft-hearted person he knew.

Apollo had yellow cat-eyes and sleek blond fur and a dextrous tail, and clawed hands and feet. He could talk just fine when he felt like it, but mostly he just snarled. Vincent didn’t quite know what to do with him. Making arrangements for him to return home was impossible without Apollo’s cooperation, because Vincent didn’t know precisely where home was.

He certainly didn’t expect them to become lovers. But in the end, the first time he saw Apollo looking purely human was just after the first time he spilled inside him. Apollo’s body was hot and tight and demanding, as he scratched Vincent’s back and told Vincent to fuck him harder. And Vincent had stroked Apollo’s cock and brought him off, finished himself when Apollo tightened even more with climax, and when Vincent’s faculties returned to him Apollo’s eyes were brown.

“You don’t look like a cat anymore,” said Vincent.

“I’d noticed,” said Apollo dryly, studying his now-human fingernails.

“You’re very pretty like this.”

“Of course I am. Now kiss me.”

Vincent did as Apollo asked, tangling his fingers in Apollo’s blond hair, and eventually they’d fallen asleep together, Apollo’s head on Vincent’s chest, and Vincent had assumed whatever curse Apollo had been under was broken. True love’s first kiss sort of thing.

–

The next morning Apollo was humping Vincent’s thigh and moaning and when Vincent, still half asleep, groped through the sheets his hand wrapped around a tail.

Vincent’s hand froze. “You’re a cat again.”

“Whenever I feel a strong emotion. And it happens more readily when I’m away from home.”

“And what strong emotion are you feeling now?” Vincent teased.

“Want you.”

“I’m beginning to get that impression.” Vincent grabbed Apollo’s ass and pulled him closer, giving him more pressure, making him groan against his neck. Vincent’s thigh was just firm enough to be satisfying against Apollo’s cock, and he wasn’t really thinking about what he was doing, just chasing pleasure as he rocked his hips more and more desperately until his pleasure peaked and he shuddered through his orgasm.

Vincent gave a pleased little sigh as he released Apollo’s hips, kissing him on the forehead. “Someone needs a bath.”

Apollo blushed, suddenly embarrassed to have been so wanton, and Vincent hadn’t even gotten hard. His cum was cooling in his underwear.

“Yes,” he managed to say, since Vincent’s amused face seemed to want a response. “Bath.”

–

Apollo stayed human often enough that Vincent informed society that he’d sent the beast back to Silvain after all, and coincidentally his friend young Mr. Cold had come to visit.

He did have to be careful about how he flirted when company was present. So, one night in February, Vincent noticed instantly when Apollo slipped away from the dinner party, and found it much more difficult to focus on the polite conversation with his neighbors. Surely they noticed Apollo’s chair was empty, too, but they could attribute it to his youth, impatient with polite conversation, or his foreignness. Vincent knew better.

Luckily the neighbors had a long journey home, and so they did not stay for cigars in the lounge afterwards, and Vincent left their dishes in the sink to soak and climbed the stairs.

He found Apollo where he knew he would, in their bedroom, and stooped to pick up Apollo’s discarded clothing before allowing himself to look up at the bed. Apollo was twisted up in the bedclothes there, the white sheets just covering his groin, his tail flicking around his elbow.

“I missed you,” Vincent said.

Apollo made a little catlike mrrr. “I missed you too.”

Vincent started to undo his tie. “May I join you?”

“Oh, I think you’d better.” Apollo lunged forward on the bed to help Vincent undress, groping him thoroughly in the process.

When he was bare Vincent cupped Apollo’s face, looking into his yellow eyes as they slitted with pleasure. “Even an hour is too much to not see your face.”

Apollo squirmed underneath him. “Fuck me about it.”

“I don’t suppose you took the time to prepare yourself for me?”

“I didn’t touch myself at all.”

Vincent pulled down the white sheet, down over Apollo’s hips to his thighs, and took Apollo’s half-hard cock in his hand. “What got you all worked up?”

“I was just watching you, while you talked to those people, and I thought about how competent and handsome you are and how they all like you but I’m the only one who gets to touch you, you’re mine.”

“And I must be very important to have such a pretty pet in my bed.”

“Exactly,” said Apollo, breathless and squirming as Vincent took the head of his cock in his mouth. Vincent’s hands were aristocrat-smooth but even they were not as soft to Apollo’s oversensitive skin as his mouth. “Oh.”

Vincent pulled back enough to speak, the tip of Apollo’s cock shiny from his mouth. “Spoiled kitty,” he teased. “Just lying in bed waiting for me to come service you?”

“To fuck me,” Apollo protested. “I’ll be so good for you. ‘M’not spoiled.”

“Of course you’re not,” Vincent soothed. Apollo spread his legs so easily, relaxing for Vincent to get a finger inside him. Vincent found his prostate with practiced ease, confirmed by the change in the tenor of Apollo’s noises. “My sweet pet.”

Apollo’s hands found Vincent’s hair and wound into it, tugging gently. “Yes, yes, all yours.” A second finger, more pretty noises. Vincent was getting hard now, too, and he feared that making a mess of the sheets was becoming inevitable.

“Are you ready for me?”

“Uh-huh.” Apollo didn’t let go as Vincent guided himself inside, and his eyes drifted closed in a look of pure satisfaction. He wiggled his hips a little. “Fuck me.”

The plaintiveness of his voice rendered Vincent weak as a kitten. He chased his own pleasure, fucking Apollo till he was out of breath. He’d waited all evening to get his hands on him and he couldn’t be bothered to delay now, not until he spilled deep inside Apollo’s pliant body.

“Oh,” said Apollo.

Vincent pulled out and moved down the bed. Apollo’s hole looked ruined, dripping with lube and cum, the rim all swollen and sensitive, all for Vincent. Vincent kissed the wet head of Apollo’s cock. Apollo gasped and squirmed, fucking the head of his cock against Vincent’s tongue. “I’m empty,” he complained, and Vincent smiled and plugged up his hole again with two fingers, pressing his thumb to the skin beneath Apollo’s balls the way he knew he liked, curling his fingers up until Apollo was well and truly broken, begging Vincent over and over again, using Vincent’s mouth as his toy, until he came too, legs tensing and squeezing tight around Vincent’s shoulders as if to keep him there forever.

Vincent swallowed and wrapped his lips gently again around the head of Apollo’s cock, licking him clean, pulling back only when Apollo’s rapid breaths turned to a pained little oversensitive whimper. Then Apollo took hold of his arms and pulled him back up to lie on top of him like a weighted blanket. Apollo held him tight, claws against Vincent’s back just enough to feel.

And then Apollo shuddered, and his claws were rounded fingernails again. The tail curled against Vincent’s thigh disappeared, and when Vincent met his lover’s gaze, Apollo’s eyes were brown again. Seeing it was even better than his orgasm had been - Vincent loved holding Apollo while he turned back into a human. It made him feel like he’d done well. Like he’d been enough to satisfy even a beast.

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enchantedviolin · 5 years

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I went to the orchid festival at Kew and found a moss menagerie 💚 #orchid #orchids #orchidfestival #kew #kewgardens #royalbotanicalgardens #moss #topiary #sloth #panther #turtle #tortoise #dolphin @kewgardens (at Princess of Wales Conservatory) https://www.instagram.com/enchantedviolin/p/BuqlkXvl-F0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13wq6coypl7oe

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hortascountrysidenotes · 5 years

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Preparing for the Opening

The one thing you need is good weather leading up to a garden opening as even though you might think the garden is in pretty good shape, when you really analyse it as you go round, the list suddenly gets incredibly long!! Must remember to cut the dead bits out of that, must remember to water and feed something else, actually think I might just move that to a spot about 12″ further down for a better effect and so on. Luckily despite the desperate need for rain, we did have a little on Sunday which perked everything up, and since then the weather has been perfect for these minor adjustments. The forecast for the weekend is mixed - it will be cool - good so things dont wilt in unexpected heat, a little rain on Saturday but hopefully not so much as to make mowing and edging a nightmare, but there is a chance of a rather feisty wind on Saturday afternoon which just might spoil the absolutely perfect apple blossom. Fingers crossed it doesnt materialise.

At last all the clients follow up plants have been delivered to their new homes and I have time to focus on here. All the sweet peas are now planted out and watered. The new Agapanthus have been put into the two pots by the topiary owls - these replace an unmatched pair - the right hand one having dwindled to nothing last year. So the stronger original has been split up - see photos - with much huffing and puffing, and spread between 4 pots at the front of the house. The new ones are called Black Panther - very dark blue - and highly suitable for a house of black labs.

I have risked planting out 3 dahlia Twynings After Eight which are only just poking through, but have marked in the borders where the dahlias will be going. They look so good in the cold frames and as the night temperatures on Friday are due to drop to 3C it seems silly to risk putting them out just for the opening. I will wait until mid May and then they should be OK. Equally I am saving the Cosmos and Night Scented Stocks until then, but the snapdragons should be OK now. We have a good array of things in the greenhouse making it look busy and productive and tomorrow or Friday I shall set up the tomatoes we are keeping - the rest can be sold on the plant stall.

Asparagus is coming on well, and veg are growing and showing - the spinach and chard is OK and the first carrots have now germinated. Sowed another row this week plus the Beetroot Chioggia with the pink stripes. More mustard mix is in and a row of Catalogna lettuce which always does well. The Lakeland lettuces will be ready to plant out in a week or so. Broad beans have their lower strings in place.

We seem to have fended off the roe deer for the moment but I must remember to take down all the CDs and weird things before Sunday! However the mole has popped up again this afternoon.

Yesterday I went all the way to Woodbridge in Suffolk to see a nursery called Botanica as a possible alternative for buying shrubs and trees as my lovely supplier of 23 years is closing down this summer. The land is being developed for housing - another habitat loss and very sad for all their customers - they have been totally reliable. Was sad to see that glyphosate is still being used in such large quantities - round nearly every margin of every wheat field there is a yellow stripe of dying wheat - to keep back any “weed” that dare move from margin to crop. Was also horrified by how much the council use around the bases of roadsigns and verge markers - surely they dont think the weeds are going to grow so enormous as to obliterate a road sign? What a waste of money and time plus such a lot of damage to ecostructures.

The swallows are well established - in and out of the garage all day and it is a joy to listening to their chatter. We feel the dawn chorus is not so good this year and are wondering why - certainly we are missing pairs of song thrushes this year around the common - perhaps last summers drought meant fewer young due to less slugs and snails in damp places. We also have the jays of course which could mean everyone lies low so as not to give their nest sites away. We do have several black caps which is great but the level of warbler song in general is definitely down .....

Wisterias are spectacular - we have two, one I would imagine is good old Prolific, the other the amazing macrobotrys, with racemes about two foot long cascading down over the house windows. They in tandem with darling Maigold rose will be a sight for Sunday and it is lovely to have the garden open at this slightly different time.

Dogs are fine - Scout is feeling her age a little now, and though she longs to do every walk with her beloved Miss Horta who is currently home, we are having to say no occasionally as her feet are a bit sore nowadays - I know the feeling! Mavis and Inca however are loving the long outings in the evenings and they sit quietly with whoever is taking them to watch the foxes and deer down in the little valley. We cannot work out where the earth is, but the hunting is being carried out quite fearlessly in broad daylight - the dog fox is stunning, deep deep chestnut brown.

Current jobs to do - veg time in abundance, soon time to plant out climbing beans but be patient with the weather being unpredictable. Watch out for capsid bug on all sage plants and salvias - they leave horrid little shot holes and cause distorting of flower shoots - can be eradicated with soft soap rather than insecticide. Same applies to aphids on honeysuckle. Also pick off lily beetles and squash - great sport. Water newly transplanted sweet peas to really get them going and give twigs or string for support down low till they really get going. Be careful not to cut grass too low in this dry weather - East Anglia - Spray roses with soft soap if aphids about, other wise try and leave them. Keep hydrangeas well watered so they really kick off well later on. Remember that when you cut box towards the month end its not a bad idea to feed it. This helps to prevent blight getting in and keep an eye open for Box moth - if caught early it can be eradicated. Final thought, dont try and tidy up everything - remember to leave odd areas of unstrimmed grass, cow parsley, dead nettles etc - they are vital for the ecosystems.

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