Deborah Conti

• EYE OF THE SEED • Artist • Creator • Designer • Marketing • Mystic • Humanitarian • Nature Lover • Collector of Seeds (Thoughts and Ideas) •

[The Andy Warhol Museum @TheWarholMuseum]

Happy Valentine's Day!

Andy Warhol, "Heart with Bow", 1983, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said that her pumpkins act as self-portraits. The idea began as her parents ownded a plant nursery and she has described the pumpkin as “a spiritual home,” a form in which she sees herself reflected #SelfPortraitWeek

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Grace Gillespie, contemporary printmaker #Womensart

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'Sun' print by contemporary printmaker Claire West #WomensArt

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Genesis, 1969
Lithograph by UK artist Barbara Hepworth #WomensArt

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Indian artist Bharti Kher
"Squaring the circle" 2007
Bindis on painted panel #WomensArt

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Remembering Sinead O'Connor on her birthday. Here in 1992 by photographer Jane Bown #WomensArt

[Deborah Conti @glowqueen2000]

#gobirds

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See you at 8:15pm sharp 😉

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Colour etching by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami (1911-2004) #WomensArt

[Guggenheim New York @Guggenheim]

A meeting point between two halves.

In "A Poem for Deep Thinkers," Rashid Johnson places the Vesica Piscis at the center—a symbol drawn from the divine, now reimagined through layers of history, family, and the idea of a liminal space.

Don't just scroll-come see.

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Georgia O'Keeffe carrying her canvas in the desert, c.1920
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'Four Ravens' screenprint by Susan Point, contemporary First Nations, Musqueam Coast Salish artist, who works in the Coast Salish tradition #WomensArt

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Peggy Guggenheim (1898 – 1979) wealthy US socialite who became one of the most significant modern art collectors of the 20th century #WomensArt

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Thank you very much for following WA. Have a great Friday!

[Deborah Conti @glowqueen2000]

Go Birds! 🦅
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Ready to kick off the season

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“As a child, my best friend was terrified of marriage. An avid reader of fairy tales, she noticed a pattern: A young person goes off on some kind of adventure, meets weird creatures, travels to strange lands, overcomes obstacles, learns valuable lessons, and eventually, at the end of the story, gets married. The adventures and the challenges and the lessons differ, but the ending is always the same. In a picture book, when you get to the picture of the wedding, you know that that is the last you’ll ever see of the protagonist you’ve come to love. If marriage is where the story of your life ends, then marriage is like death. That’s the moral my friend took away from fairy tales, anyway. It’s also the moral you might take away from Taylor Swift’s love songs.

By the time I became a Swiftie—in 2013, her ‘Red’ era—my life had, by the fairy tale metric, ended more than once.

People advise you, ‘Forget him!’ as though that were a thing you could will yourself to do. Swift replies: That’s about as helpful as telling me to will myself to know a complete stranger. The first time I heard the song, I interpreted that reply as purely dismissive, but as I listened to it over and over again I came to realize that it contained a tantalizing Platonic suggestion. Plato thought that learning was recollecting, which is to say that when you seem to be acquiring new knowledge, what you are really doing is uncovering knowledge that was buried deep within you. If the same logic applied to love, then it might, in fact, be appropriate to think of the rush of falling in love as willing yourself to suddenly fully know a stranger. Buried in Swift’s songs is a theory of love. To bring it into view, take a step back.”–@AgnesCallard

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“In this time, in this world, we are inundated with images of endless pleasures. Our culture sells us on the idea that hard work is beneath us, or out of reach. That entertainment is our highest calling. That strife and disappointment are wrong, frustration something to run from, discomfort something to avoid at all costs. None of these things are true, and they keep us locked in a perpetual chase with no fulfilling destination. And because of that, I need to pull us out of that warm wintry nest of pleasures and into the reality of what makes it so profoundly and deliciously pleasurable—and that reality is work. Hard and demanding work.

As romantic as the soft days of this country life may sound, they are only soft because of the hard days.” —Tara Couture

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'The Flower Maiden' by Annie French (1872-1965), Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer associated with the Glasgow School of Art #WomensArt

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'Summer moon' by contemporary UK printmaker Carol Lander
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This weekend's #August #fullmoon is known as the #SturgeonMoon 🌕

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Hollie Chastain, contemporary US artist who works with collage #womensart #FridayFeeling