Your body is away from me but there is a window open from my heart to yours. From this window, like the moon I keep sending news secretly. ~Rumi

FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR SANITY PRAY IT ISN'T TRUE! Richard Matheson raids Nigel Kneale's 'what if we chuck science and the supernatural in bed together' with music from Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgeson from the Radiophonics team! Join #thefilmcrowd THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE at 8pm UK time! Link 👇

i once found marilyn monroe, fragments, a book of her intimate written ephemera & emily dickinson, the gorgeous nothings in the same visit in different corners of my favorite secondhand shop — like magic, but i think they must have come from the same home. or at least, they are now both in mine.

Christmas Eve from The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. I’m selling giclee prints & originals (I’ll post the originals & their prices here on Bluesky) of the illustrations I made for this book. Visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more. Giclee prints £75 (free P&P - UK only - I do ship worldwide also). Ta 👍🏻

an evening in october.

This person took this when they called the race

autumnal bouquet. ⚘

september's eventual transformation to october happens in the light.

september is almost over. milena writes about the "frantic carousel" of leaves blowing from the streets to the rooftops on frozen november nights in vienna in an article entitled "dance over the abyss", and i am imagining the loose hair and long coats of yohji yamamoto’s fw 1999 collection.

Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️‍🌈 Oral History Project I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home. If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:   📧 [email protected] 📞 +447902489831

when the low heavy sky weighs like a lid on the spirit, aching for the light...

The Los Angeles Times California Home Book by Carolyn S. Murray (1982) #CaliforniaPoppy

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

frederico garcia lorca (selected letters), 1921

I got a little lost, but it doesn't matter, because you may have come along, and now we're both lost. Franz Kafka, 1920.

finding egon schiele in the wild, last year. egon once wrote to anton peschka "i want to leave vienna soon... in vienna there are shadows." i am tired too of shadows.

3rd avenue el station windows 1. arnold eagle, 1936 2. lothar stelter, 1950

🎞️John Cimon Warburg Under the Red Light, 1909

this drawing I made of a frog is considered unanimously as one of the greatest drawings of our century

Clarence John Laughlin. The Ego-Centrics. 1940.

"It is your duty in life to save your dream." - Amedeo Modigliani 1884 – 1920

tonight we all meet at café herrenhof.

i love him, silly boy. #caturday

milena jesenskà and friends, but most importantly, with a cat, mid-1920s. #caturday

the beautiful art of caryn drexl. please see the urgent message from the artist below and consider buying some of her art if you can (directly via IG is best, please see prices & available work on her etsy). #art #artcommunity #artist . www.etsy.com/shop/caryndr... www.instagram.com/caryndrexl

This lilac unleaves. It falls from itself and hides its ancient shadow. I will die of such things. ~Alejandra Pizarnik

“Art offers some unspeakable truth... When two strangers are struck by a work of art and each invests it with a sense of their innermost being—perhaps involving trauma, memory or impossible desires—they relate to one another at a level of intimacy and vulnerability otherwise inaccessible.”

"I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I ripped my beating heart from my chest and gleaned its red, red secrets. I spilled my guts and divined those slick, steaming mysteries. I looked within and deeper still and I never stopped looking.

may is here.

Better a Pig Than a Fascist youtu.be/ZPdLV8WvFrw

Espagne antifasciste et révolutionnaire, 1936

Mended Stockings, 1934 by US photographer Dorothea Lange, who brought the human cost of the Great Depression to the world #WomensArt

If you've ever wondered why the Irish are overwhelmingly #proPalestinian independence, here's a clue. The poem itself dates back to the 1797-8 Rebellion. For more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sha...

‘The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.’ Federico García-Lorca.

ㅤ — Ilya Kaminsky, A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck; Deaf Republic ㅤ

mood: 1. nathan lerner, a girl with two face, 1932 2. george shiras iii, two deer in the woods at night, 1906

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A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.

sunday, i am here. photographs by willy ronis, 1955.

If you create things— write, paint, draw, make music, take photos, or dance and dream... Whatever you make, thank you. The world needs you so much right now. Please, never doubt this. And never stop.

the psychic relief of discovering the columbo screenshots account is here.

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁