Artist (thread painting, pencil, ink, mixed media - no AI used); voracious reader; advocate and supporter of libraries; trying to walk as lightly as possible on our beautiful land of the Pacific Northwest; accidental haiku writer. (Posts are usually deleted after six months.)
#art #embroidery #EmbroideryArt #FineArtInStitch #MastoArt #haiku #SmallPoem #NoAI #PacificNorthwest #PNW #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateJustice #nature #wildlife #libraries #FreedomToRead #reading #bookstodon
Those marvelous librarians at the Seattle Public Library have put together another wonderful book list, twenty-seven books by women writers in translation that have been published this year and are available now. Just in time for August's Women in Translation month.
#books #reading #libraries #WomenInTranslation #PNW #Seattle @bookstodon
https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/72450558/2814755497
August is Women in Translation Month, which aims to bring awareness to the lack of women writers whose works are translated as well as celebrate the works of individual women authors. Learn more at https://www.womenintranslation.org/. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. Created July 2025.
Nature finds a way, always. These three mushrooms, Ruby Bolete, Hortiboletus rubellus, found a seam between two concrete blocks to grow from.
@StefanieH Blessed by a butterfly - how marvelous! Just about the time you were getting a refreshing cooling break in your weather, we had a few uncomfortably warm days (for us that is!), but I can't complain, this summer has been quite mild so far.
I've really appreciated having several useful options for getting search results that are not packed with environment-destroying AI garbage, but I'm especially pleased that GoDuckGo will now use the major AI blocking lists for image results, and will work to develop more extensive filters too. 💃🏼
I absolutely agree with you and Michael Dirda (such a wonderful writer about books and reading), book bans don't work. Readers will always find a way and banning them only makes people seek them out. What really worries me is that big mainstream publishers will pull back from publishing all the voices and stories that should be heard. Not that they're doing especially stellar work on that front now...
#art to start 🎨
...reflected light
'Summer Days, Woodland Glade'
Artist: Amanda Horvath
#painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting #landscape
Using brushes he fashions himself out of the grasses and reeds around him, Chinese artist Wang Mansheng's large ink paintings on silk scrolls imagines the world without humans and the damage we've done. The interesting imperfections the brushes create as they're used add something more organic to the landscapes that factory-produced brushes can't.
#art #paintings #InkPainting #nature #landscape
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/wang-mansheng-handmade-brushes/
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