birnamwood.bsky.social
Artist + writer. Poetry! Folklore! Feminism! Medical Humanities! Art! The Gothic! ‘90s Music! Zines! The occult! Collage! Books! Ginger cats! More art! Sylvia Plath! Aesthetics! Tarot! Cake! Bit more art, maybe!
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Thank you, I totally see what you mean about P&G. It’s nice to make something for yourself occasionally; feels like a little luxury.
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Thank you!
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Go on then, one more…
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Thank you! I think I must have developed my aesthetic sensibilities in those two months in 1995 when everyone had that sun-moon-and-stars wallpaper, and I still can’t let it go. 🌞
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Three important points I’d like to add: I don’t have photoshop, I’m making these in Pages. I’m not selling the book or the cards; it’s just for personal use. Writing alt text really makes you think about your work, even if it’s hard to describe surrealist collage in a way that makes sense.
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These are the header pages for each suit of cards. I’d say that the project was informed by both the fine art collage tradition and also by culture jamming: images, advertising images intended to sell products in particular, are injected into my world and should be fair game for transformative work.
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The day you realise it is the day everything changes.
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Thank you for your kindness. I can’t pretend that anything positive can come from having someone like that in your life, but I can say that recognising that behaviour has allowed me to keep myself, and sometimes other people too, safe and protected from people who’d try the same thing.
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They will always find a reason. Always. Even if it wasn’t you that did the Bad Thing, the Bad Thing will still be used to justify your mistreatment. This is how abusers are. Even confronted with evidence of their transgressions, there’s a shitty justification somewhere if they look deep enough.
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The first time I saw Brief Encounter I got it confused with Strangers On A Train and spent the whole film wondering when the murder was going to happen. Very disappointed.
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C for sure.
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Wow, that was quick! Thank you, I’m excited to get started!
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That’d be very cool, I’ve been wondering how RSS stuff works but I’ve never quite been able to get into it.
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My boy Milo has one of those, it’s always covered in tiny little tooth-holes where he’s bitten it into submission.
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This was an unexpected end to my Wednesday. Also the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. And I’m inclined to agree with the people demanding pictures.
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That was a surprisingly level-headed briefing considering how some people can be.
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That is a lovely lovely thing. Do you name yours?
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I did that to the girl taking phone orders at my local Chinese. Although she makes chips arrive at my house, so I do love her a little bit.
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That’s even creepier than when they were just openly posting misinformation.
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*THAT I can strongly recommend; that was a particularly damning typo.
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Elinor Cleghorn’s book Unwell Women is a more specific view than I can strongly recommend — a journey through the history of medicine as it applies to women.
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Roy Porter can be wonderful for a general introduction, but there’ll be a ton of other more specific works that other people will be better placed to recommend.