With the approach of July 4, just another reminder that this is the only orange monarch we need.

#JosephBeuys Portraits by my father Carl Köhler (1919-2006)

Kurt Vonnegut's advice to high schoolers: “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction... no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience BECOMING, to find out what’s inside you, to MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW.”

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist." ~ Winona LaDuke

44 years ago today, Joseph Beuys transformed a replica of Ivan the Terrible’s crown into what he deemed a peace symbol, recasting it as a hare & sun sphere. ‘Friedenshase’ (Hare of Peace), 6/30/1982, Kassel, Germany ‘The future we want must be invented, otherwise we get one we don’t want.’ JHB ++

"Now let's do a silly pose. Now a serious one." Great Horned Owl and Chicks #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #owls

There „were only three major [anarchist/leftist] incidents in the United States between 1882 and 1906, next to 3,080 known lynchings in that same period.” thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...

These are precisely the sort of reforms that Abundance-pilled Democrats are working to legislatively entrench via "permit reform," a euphemism for negotiations with Trump Republicans to cede control of our future to energy & technology companies. It's just bipartisan looting.

I went outside to see the strawberry moon rise but it was too hazy. So I spent some time with the Eastern Cottontails instead.

Mondays, man. #MetalGarfield

A quiet refraction. Taken June 2021

"I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time." Joseph Beuys, "Christmas"

🙏🏻 This gives me hope for humanity and our climate. “….trees are worthy of protection, including the right to life, to natural growth, to integrity and to regeneration….A tree is like a human being. It breathes, it lives, it takes in water. It protects us from all sorts of things."

River clean-up/impromptu snail rescue mission. Five pairs of hands got a lot done this morning. Organized by @hawriverassembly.bsky.social

‘For me the rose is a very simple and clear example and image of this evolutionary process toward the revolutionary aim, for a rose is a revolution relative to its origin…’ Joseph Beuys +

Adrift… Taken in Gibsonville, NC. I was waiting for owls I could hear but not see so I shot for the moon instead.

Humans are the biggest threat to mankind. We are such a peculiar species.

At some point we are going to have to choose between being alive and this. Why wait

The absurdity is all too much. No one from the future will believe us.

Every child born on US soil is a birthright citizen.

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." — Pablo Neruda

Chatham County, North Carolina.

Joseph Beuys: ‘I'm a rabbit. I run through a furrow, and if they want to get me, I have another furrow in my head without thinking too much.’ André Müller: ‘And finally, bury yourself in the ground. Then nobody can find you anymore.’ JB: ‘I have long since melted into the earth anyway.’ 1980 ++

Fear drives a world which could so easily exist without. It is a choice. It is control. A world without fear takes no bravery, no sacrifice, no gods. Only choice. To relinquish control. How tragically foolish to waste very short lives in fear. You could change everything.

"Everyone is an artist", Joseph Beuys once famously quipped (1969). And that lovely sentiment is quite different from Andy Warhol's reactionary claim that "Everyone will be famous for 15 seconds" (1967). 17-22

The monsters are eating each other alive. Because that's what monsters do.

National SO-111N Portable Phonograph & Keyboard (1960s) "Sometimes I think all I'm ever doing is trying to convince myself I'm alive" insheepsclothinghifi.com/japanese-por... youtu.be/ecIPJaxkZ7w?...

Snapshots from Bombay Beach in California in 2023. This is a defunct resort that shuttered in the 1980s. Now it’s a sprawling artscape lining the polluted waters of the Salton Sea.

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

Folks need to pay far more attention to how permitting stuff people don't want (AI data centers, fossil fuel infrastructure) leads to opposition to permitting for green infrastructure. Very serious flaw in "tech neutral" and "all of the above" energy policy otherwise touted as savvy DC politics.

6/22/1967 - Joseph Beuys with Johannes Stüttgen announcing the founding of the German Student Party in front of Düsseldorf Academy. This was in response to the deadly police shooting of Benno Ohnesorg in Berlin weeks before at an anti-authoritarian protest during the Iran Shah’s state visit. ++

“We must imagine while we build, always both.” -Mariame Kaba

‘The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor’ illustrated by Harold Speakman, published in 1915

‘Into what never was and what never could be Beyond what could be felt and what could be seen Away from shackles and away from restraint Away from all the eyes that held me at bay And I'm never going back again I swear I will never return’

"I always thought everyone was against war, until I found out that there are some who are in favor of it—especially those who don't have to go." Erich Maria Remarque

Joseph Beuys with his son Wenzel in 1967, who later planted the remaining 7,000 Oaks after his father’s passing in 1986. Photo by Liselotte Strelow

Vogelgesang, Hitze, Kirschen, Wespen, Sommer, Sonntag.

On his way to steal yo berries 🍇 (Cedar Waxwing)

Just some Least Tern Acrobatics. What’s really happening: I got to observe bird courtship from a beach blind. I think he won her over. Good job, bro. Outer Banks, NC 2024

This fountain that shows date and time in Czech Republic. Original post

‘Honey is flowing in all directions.’ Joseph Beuys ++ For the love of bees.

Reykjavík. Iceland. June 2026. #Reykjavik #Iceland #June

'Truth must be found in reality, not systems.' Joseph Beuys btd 1921 d 1986 #German #art ㅤ Cc Gianfranco Gorgoniㅤㅤ

Not Australian singer and songwriter Nick Cave. Rather American Sculptor Nick Cave.

Langston Hughes, published in 1925

I fell asleep to rain. I woke up to rain. I’m ecstatic and so grateful. We needed this.

The truck parked beside me at the university has its headliner covered in small photos of different cities…sunsets…landscapes…assuming they’re places the truck owner visited. It’s beautiful. I want to snap a pic but I’d rather not be an intrusive weirdo….those moments belong to them, not me.

Flower peek ‘Honey is flowing in all directions’ JHB ++

"He discarded his past self and became something new: an artist and shaman, who communes with animals on behalf of humanity, to help heal the social wounds that he knew all too well and all too personally."