#art to start 🎨
...the watcher

'Owl'
Artist: Huang Yongyu
#painting #ink #InkPainting
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Once there were songs for everything,
Songs for planting, for growing, for harvesting,
For eating, getting drunk, falling asleep,
For sunrise, birth, mind-break, and war.
For death (those are the heaviest songs and they
Have to be pried from the earth with shovels of grief).
Now all we hear are falling-in-love songs and
Falling apart after falling in love songs.
The earth is leaning sideways
And a song is emerging from the floods
And fires. Urgent tendrils lift toward the sun.
You must be friends with silence to hear.
The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—
They are the most rare.
-- 'Singing Everywhere' by Joy Harjo from 'An American Sunrise'

#FridayPoem #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry

(Art credit: Hung Duong)

#art to start 🎨
...casting shadows

'The Bievre at Gentilly'
Artist: Henri Rousseau
#painting #oil #OilPainting #landscape

#art to start 🎨
...enjoying the easy life

'The other room X'
Artist: Mieke Jonker
#painting #oil #OilPainting

@bookstodon A completely fascinating look at those creatures we new-kids-on-the-block humans wouldn't and couldn't even exist without - plants.

The author, a journalist, spoke to a number of plant scientists, visited their labs, and went out into the field with them. She learns and shares what they have discovered about particular plants, and explores the questions and ideas those findings turn up. Zoë Schlanger's enthusiasm and curiosity are catching and it's easy to lose yourself in the world of plants.

As for the plants themselves, it's amazing what observation and research is uncovering about all their different stories, and humbling to realize how much we don't know. Highly recommended.
#BookReview #reading #botany #plants #bookstodon

#art to start 🎨
...blending in

'Orchard Woodcock'
Artist: Wilhelm Goebel
#painting #oil #OilPainting

#art to start 🎨
...street scene

'Via Bandiera from the first floor of n 67'
Artist: Francesco Cuttitta
#painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting

#art to start 🎨
...seeing light

'Looking Up'
Artist: Barbara Hranilovich
#painting #watercolor #WatercolorPainting #gouache #landscape

#art to start 🎨
...at the ready

'Still life'
Artist: Tamar Nakaidze
#painting #watercolor #WatercolorPainting #StillLife

Basking in sunlight
blushing gold, burgundy red
sweet-tart temptations.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cherries
#haiku #micropoem #SmallPoem

(Art credit: Agnieszka Praxmayer)