Environments from my Earthsea project for my school diploma that I totally forgot to upload here. So there you go! (they are starting to get a bit old, but heh)
I cannot explain how much I love Ursula K. LeGuin ‘s Earthsea cycle. Those books are amazing and once you’ve read them you are changed forever.
Hold onto your hats and start practicing your best and loudest squees, because the Department of Impossible Cuteness has a real doozy for us today. Whether or not you actively like, fear, or are completely indifferent about spiders, these macro photos reveal that spooders have extra-adorable feets. In fact they don’t just have feet, they have furry paws!
“In more scientific terms, a spider’s “paw” is called a tarsus, and it’s only one of eight parts that make up a rather complicated leg. Just like cats or dogs, spiders also have claws attached to the paws, but in their case, legs also work as ears and nose picking up subtle changes in the air to hear and recognize smells.”
Head over to Bored Panda for many more close-up photos of completely kawaii arachnid tootsies.
Indian Act speaks of the realities of colonization – the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Canadian Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with red and white glass beads. Each word is replaced with white beads sewn into the document; the red beads replace the negative space.
Every time I see this it gives me chills.
So impactful and creative. It must’ve taken forever.
This is honestly one of my favorite concepts/collections. I think about it every now and again, and it’s always so striking.