☆ kelsey

paint luvr

[h a n a @bukayocore]

mogged

[ѕєиɪ @zalatwicc]

full moon i love you

[urethra franklin @DoodooSimpanero]

That dawg in me lowkey a cat

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

i want to read so many books but there are so many books

[Academia Aesthetics @AcademiaAesthe1]

Alex Alemany (b. 1943) - Mediterraneo.

[Bryan Larsen @BryanLarsenArts]

I’m Bryan and this is what I create

[lucy ♡ @ALcveSupreme]

Robbie Williams live at Knebworth, you will always be famous.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Jester Pepita - Dreaming of the Blue Tiger

[☆ kelsey @kelshallart]

@BryanLarsenArts ooh id love to see how you set up ur palette if you ever wanted to do a video on that!

[Dark Meta Knight @ssbultmk]

Still the toughest thing I have ever drawn I’m afraid

[Bryan Larsen @BryanLarsenArts]

‘Viriditas’, the ‘greening power’ of nature, is a philosophical concept from Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, described as a constant pressure pushing toward pattern and ever more complex forms.

It’s not just literal greenery (plants and ecosystems) but a cosmic, life-affirming force that counters entropy, fostering vitality and interconnectedness across the biosphere, noosphere (human thought and culture), and lithosphere (the planet’s crust).

Later in the trilogy, it becomes almost a quasi-religious concept, but I like it as a term for adapting and thriving in previously inhospitable environments through curiosity, perseverance, and innovation…or the tendency for life that can do that to thrive wherever it goes.

I also like the recognition of the interconnectivity of complex systems on the individual level…mind and body…and more broadly on a species level…civilization and nature…as a feature. I don’t think human consciousness makes sense outside the context of the biological body it is an emergent property of, and human civilization doesn’t make sense separated from the natural world we evolved in. The opposite is also true…a body without a mind is just meat…biologically the same, but fundamentally different. The same holds for the natural world/human civilization relationship. Humans could survive in a sterile, concrete-and-steel environment, (don’t get me wrong…I love concrete and steel) but we would become something different. The natural world could technically exist without humanity’s experience of it, but outside of that context it lacks meaning.

Even if it were possible to transfer a human mind into a machine, that consciousness would become something fundamentally different...because we are not software running on hardware; we are analog. Our ‘software’ is an emergent property of our ‘hardware,’ and our software constantly remakes our hardware as it runs.

So I love the concept of engineering new biomes and self-sustaining ecologies as part of our moving out into the stars. I don’t think it is a matter of making life more comfortable or beautiful…I think it is necessary to keep us human. The worlds we build will be the worlds our children grow up in. They will be shaped by those worlds just as they shape the worlds their children grow up in. They are part of the same, integrated process of growth…the evolution of our species. So, in my analogy, we are the ‘software’ running on the ‘hardware’ of our environment, and constantly reshaping that environment is a part of our nature. I tried to capture a bit of all of those things in this painting—the mind, the body, the natural world, ingenuity, beauty, curiosity, and technology. This is the future I want.

‘Viriditas’ 24x20 inches, oil on aluminum composite panel.
Original available through Rehs Contemporary in New York

[trish @ultragloss]

picking up the hem of my baggy pants to walk up the stairs like it’s a ballgown

[lucy ♡ @ALcveSupreme]

i just wanna feel real love... feel the home that i live in. 'cause i got too much life... running through my veins... going to waste.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Adolf Hirschl - The Birth of Venus