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i run a tight shipwreck; coming here was your first mistake. fuck ai. i block that shit on sight. this be the art account of @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social art samples - https://upfromsumdirt.wordpress.com/visual-art/

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · Dec 28

well. here im is.

"art anshit"

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 3h

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · Jun 18

years ago, my favorite way to write when doing so by hand...

$abstract drawing and text spiraling around the page in red ink: central image is male-presenting figure with a cube-shaped head wearing a baseball cap with "fela" written on it. the face of the cube-head reads: abstrack africana. its head separates the word "myth" in half. "run-dmc" is on its shirt. shango runs up its right arm. coltrane runs down its left arm. junior kimbrough is written on its left leg. mahalia jackson is written on the right leg. this handwritten text spirals around it: beginnings: beneath all this rubble is ancestry, still and uncomplete sentences / improper structure / i am not built soundly / fundamentally i am beautiful in all broken places / i sample and i still. i am stolen but do not reside in ruin / will not preside over evil at the expense of others mother-colored / beneath this sunflower shell is anansi's tale. poetry is my umbilical cord between bullshit and blackspirit. i am improper fraction; séance fiction / revolutionary self-definition is a sub-condition of american slavery; "freedom is free of the need to be free." - george clinton / "if you are afraid to tell the truth you don't wven deserve freedom." - el hajj malik el shabazz / this black heart has an egungun engine. voice is vévé. i hvae no choice, love grants me power / selfishness pollutes the soul. honoring my elders makes me self-supreme. everything celestial is internal combustion. believe in me! or don't; it won't stop me from believing in us.$

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 3h

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · Jan 31

i havent written poems by hand in years, but i really miss creating meandering, labyrinthine poems with no ending in mind until youre about to run out of white space...

a dozen or so short, disjointed poetic stanzas of handwritten text in blocked sections.

Throwing Out My Spells

every agent of the in-between eventually reaches his or her plateau.
he or she (in order to advance their obia abilities©) must throw
away all of yesterday's playbook... because spells sometimes spoil
and the throat closes up, allergic to the mildew of old mojo; most
wisdoms can be re: frigerated but all spiritual ingredients come with
an expiration date. unused portions of new portents break down and
become poison (potentially!) some seal their songs in vaseline and
tobacco leaf or within the sugarcane sheath...but it takes a true
conjure-pure to make any good cure from an obia's bad idea. best to
not take that chance, but fear of a bad rune is not the reason i'm
throwing out my spells... it's time i rinse myself anew in rainbow
excrements, wash away the silt built up on the basins of my
uncommon senses, rinsing spiritual resins in self renewal: this is the
difference between a good roux and old gravy and there can be no
rancid gravity to a pro conqueroo's gris! i must journey to the ascend
of the universe... connect through crossroads to the rising sun; secret
handshake with shango anew; hymn with the egun; slap five with the
penumbral, the pharaohs from middle africa long forgotten. i throw
out my spells to go and make a myth of me, becoming the most
mortal, a portal to my own people - the pigment of your imagination.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 3h

G. Mackenzie Bacon, On the Writing of the Insane (London: John Churchill and Sons, 1870).

book cover. gold type on dark red cloth cover that reads "on thr writing of thr insane" G. Mackenzie Bacon, M.D.

hundreds of line of handwritten words written in a spiraling, double-circular fashion.

a graphic of 2 circular balls of various sizes of handwritten type.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 11h

some bot fucker is using my name to sell a product... ive lodged a complaint with amazon and waiting to hear back from them. but theyve likely data farmed some old blog of mine where im lauding on bearden, fusing us together. & pretty sure they dont have permission from bearden's estate.

screenshot of some ol' bullshit where my creative name is linked with romare bearden's artwork on amazon.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 11h

ALL the writing...

i will sponsor yalls fireburning if yall start with packaging manufacturers.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Damn yo what if the United States empire was collapsing. Just imploding & losing all its function because its white supremacist history culminated in a dictator. That would be crazy, yo. Nah that would never happen.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 1d

Black and Purple Petunias #americanart #okeeffe

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 1d

a distress plea if ever there was one...

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 1d

ms. james... is you ops?!?!

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 1d

juss keeping eye on this design bullshit because i have bookcovers to design...

youtu.be/OcOQQlfDVsI?...

2026 Graphic Design Trends You Should Know

YouTube video by Kittl

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 2d

and i caint wait!!

got the popcorn ready and er'thang!

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

victorian cyclists
CROSS CULTURAL RACE
(documentary excerpt)

youtu.be/7H9q43ZI2vQ?...

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

i found it on flickr posted by Jim Kellett about a decade ago and used in his documentary on Victorian Cyclists.

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

we used to own a small coffeeshop that sold 6" pizzas (the crust was store-bought but the toppings were fresh) - i loved the one with mozz, cherry tomatoes, and fresh spinach...

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892) - Portrait of an Arab, oil on canvas

bust painting of a brown-skinned man wearing a green head wrap.

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

as a teen, i'd add butter and slices of kraft cheese to my frozen pizzas... it was lovely af.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

im always leaving out key details, like "wearing layered robing"...

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

Theodoros Ralli (1852-1909) - Stringing pears oil on canvas, 1882.

painting of a black-skinned merchant wearing robed layers and sitting on a decorative bench his hands before his face as he's stringing pearls.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

Rudolf Ernst (1954-1932) - The chibouk smoker, oil on panel.

painting of a brown-skinned person sitting in a room with polished marble floor and tiles on the wall with geometric patterns on them smokes a long slender pipe.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 6d

Gyula Tornai (1861-1928) - A guard, oil on panel, 1911.

painting of a black man in red robes holding a ceremonial axe with both hands. he wears a slightly canonical brown fez on his head with a sack of provisions strapped over his back.

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 7d

'tippy toes' by alison saar, 2007

photo of a sculpture of all-black material: a female-appearing figure is lifted from the ground by a wire-frame cone-shaped object that the figure wears like a skirt. the figure's toes point down as the cone lifts it up the height of its body.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 7d

noah verrier, oil painting of a wendy's hamburger meal with fries and milkshake spread in front of a ball brand mason jar full of assorted flowers [with alt-text that basically says the same thing]

life-like oil painting of a hamburger unwrapped from & sitting on silver foil, next to a container of french fries, and a milkshake. a jar of flowers sits behind it all.

House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 9d

Remedios Varo - Papilla Estelar (Star Porridge), 1958

painting of a person sitting in a gazebo feeding a crescent moon trapped in a cage.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 11d

ok, "carl spackler", calm tf down...

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 13d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Minda Honey is the author of The Heartbreak Years. She writes a newsletter about being mid(life) on Substack. Follow her at @mindahoney.bsky.social and don’t miss her zine, “Thoughts Liberated from My Notes* App,” in the Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping this week!

Thoughts Liberated from My Notes App Zine Machine
*art by real humans

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