#Flipped

Close-up of An Ethic is a Root, a #woodcut installation. The work centers on a map of my migration. I repeatedly subvert the colonial map, placing the original woodblock upside down and revealing only its reflection below the prints. #printpromptmonday #flipped 💜🖼️ 📸 @khimmatahipol.bsky.social

Close-up of An Ethic is a Root, part of my larger series, The Negotiation Table, of print-based art installations.

To build the installation, I take my hand-carved woodblocks and after printing the editions turn the blocks into tables. Underneath the tables are linoleum and mirrored tiles, which reflect a woodcut of my migration route and create patterns of light on the walls and prints.

An Ethic is a Root navigates and negotiates how we arrive at our ethics. What do we risk when we uphold our ethics? And what makes the risks worthwhile?

The central image in this series is a map of my migration route, from where I grew up on the lands of the Kansa, Osage, Kickapoo, and Shawnee, to each of my homes including Teejop (land of the Ho-Chunk, Madison, WI) to my current home on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh in what is called Vancouver, British Columbia.

In the two woodblock prints, I made water, instead of land, the geographic anchor, with the Great Lakes blooming at the top of the map. I oriented the map with my route(s) growing downward.

My mother still resides in my last childhood home in rural Kansas. Agricultural runoff and nearby development have made the soil poor. The land around my mother’s house regularly erodes and floods when it rains.

Yet the iris flower continues to grow here. Irises are known for growing in places with polluted water, effectively removing toxins and holding soil together.

Photo by Khim Hipol.
2025-01-30
Tilfældigt vand ved hul 7 - februar 2022

#upsidedown #flipped #reflection #vandspejling#tilfældigtvand #hillerødgolfklub
2024-12-19
Don't trust your eyes, they are easily deceived

#nature #naturephotography #flipped
Ray Baptistraybaptist
2024-11-16

shigeru komatsuzaki 1971

I love everything about this. the dolphins have pants! and breathing apparatuses (apparati?). No idea what this is from originally but I love it. I was born in 75 so I grew up in the era when stuff of this caliber was still floating around and I think maybe them days are past. 👎

this guy:

70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/

has an awesome book out.

peace and love ❤️

2024-10-04

Further to this disgraceful story, Politico’s Scott Waldman & Thomas Frank write in their recent article that “Trump initially refused to give California wildfire aid because it’s a blue state, ex-aide says” (1).

I repeat, for the benefit of #American readers, our experience of this kind of #politicisation of #disasters in Australia: we had a #conservative prime minister that in 2022 was faced with massive #floods and #politicised the response to them: #funding his party’s seats and states but not the other party’s seats and states (2). What happened to that prime minister is instructive: he led his party to the next #election and was soundly #defeated: recording the worst result for Australia’s #centre-right #governing parties in seventy years. The state #government that benefited most from the disaster funding also lost office.

When the election results begin to come in on Tuesday #Nov5 and the former #POTUS inevitably starts #lying about another ‘stolen election’, spare a thought for those in states affected by #Helene who #flipped their #vote #blue after Trump’s disgusting behaviour following the #hurricane: it will be these #voters, amongst many others, that he will be trying to #disenfranchise.

(1) eenews.net/articles/helene-isn

(2) sstuwa.org.au/WesternTeacher/2

#2024Election #uspol #uspolitics #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #HarrisWalzLandslide2024 #HarrisWalzBringHope #WereNotGoingBack #ANewWayForward #VoteKamala #Harris #KamalaHarris

Evik Dwi Priagungevikdwipriagung
2024-10-03

20241003 #1 20.33 WIB
277/366 Days 12,587

Old but good, simple story but truly lovely. It is correct that no need to take revenge but let them realize. Love cant be stopped because of the response that we got.
Acting: 8.5
Story: 8.5
Visual: 8
Music: 7
Plot: 7.5
Moral Values: 7.5
AVERAGE: 7.83/10
Source Picture: Google

#2024

2024-07-24

"Feeling lucky?" The slick little guy in a zoot suit leaned against a lamp post.
Jerry stopped and stared in puzzlement.
"You're thinkin' 'bout askin,' her out, aintcha?" He pulled out a big coin, "Gonna do you a favor. Heads she will, tails she don't. Easy peasy."
Jerry considered fate, predestination, and free will, "Nah. Not gonna leave it up to chance" and walked away.
The greasy vulpine fella #flipped it anyway and bared his teeth, "Heads" he whispered. "Thank me later."
#wss366

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