Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
@quiddityks.bsky.social
Art, nature, environment. she/her
Settler on Blackfoot Territory.
I blog at www.thiswildcuriosity.com
Settler on Blackfoot Territory.
I blog at www.thiswildcuriosity.com
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Idk who needs to hear this, but talking to blorbo on the plagerism machine is crossing the picket line.
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Idk who needs to hear this, but talking to blorbo on the plagerism machine is crossing the picket line.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Grasslands dawn #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Grasslands dawn #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14
No one said this had to be recent art, right? My mom recently regifted this pottery tile that I made when I was a kid back to me. She says that it's good because you can tell what it is. Thanks, Mom.
No one said this had to be recent art, right? My mom recently regifted this pottery tile that I made when I was a kid back to me. She says that it's good because you can tell what it is. Thanks, Mom.
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14
No one said this had to be recent art, right? My mom recently regifted this pottery tile that I made when I was a kid back to me. She says that it's good because you can tell what it is. Thanks, Mom.
No one said this had to be recent art, right? My mom recently regifted this pottery tile that I made when I was a kid back to me. She says that it's good because you can tell what it is. Thanks, Mom.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
If we let AI kill creative careers it means in less than 10 years you're going to have nothing new to enjoy. No new shows. No new books. No new music.
AI isn't human and can't create what you need.
AI isn't human and can't create what you need.
December 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
If we let AI kill creative careers it means in less than 10 years you're going to have nothing new to enjoy. No new shows. No new books. No new music.
AI isn't human and can't create what you need.
AI isn't human and can't create what you need.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
The UCP has made 2025 one of the darkest years for Alberta’s democracy.
Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026.
By simply being Albertan.
Let me explain. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026.
By simply being Albertan.
Let me explain. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The UCP has made 2025 one of the darkest years for Alberta’s democracy.
Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026.
By simply being Albertan.
Let me explain. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026.
By simply being Albertan.
Let me explain. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13
I've been dabbling in lino block printmaking and I was pleased with this little mountain scene.
I've been dabbling in lino block printmaking and I was pleased with this little mountain scene.
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13
I've been dabbling in lino block printmaking and I was pleased with this little mountain scene.
I've been dabbling in lino block printmaking and I was pleased with this little mountain scene.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12
This miniature stained glass set of drawers is from a few years back. It's roughly seven inches tall.
This miniature stained glass set of drawers is from a few years back. It's roughly seven inches tall.
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12
This miniature stained glass set of drawers is from a few years back. It's roughly seven inches tall.
This miniature stained glass set of drawers is from a few years back. It's roughly seven inches tall.
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11
Another soft sculpture object, this one with honeycomb stitch on the base and sides.
Another soft sculpture object, this one with honeycomb stitch on the base and sides.
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11
Another soft sculpture object, this one with honeycomb stitch on the base and sides.
Another soft sculpture object, this one with honeycomb stitch on the base and sides.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10
Another handmade book, this time one that I made for my awesome friend and poet @ajdolman.bsky.social
Another handmade book, this time one that I made for my awesome friend and poet @ajdolman.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10
Another handmade book, this time one that I made for my awesome friend and poet @ajdolman.bsky.social
Another handmade book, this time one that I made for my awesome friend and poet @ajdolman.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9
Another soft sculpture object, the wings of this whatsit are embroidered using honeycomb stitch.
Another soft sculpture object, the wings of this whatsit are embroidered using honeycomb stitch.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9
Another soft sculpture object, the wings of this whatsit are embroidered using honeycomb stitch.
Another soft sculpture object, the wings of this whatsit are embroidered using honeycomb stitch.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
5. Apetalous catchfly
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
5. Apetalous catchfly
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
#ArtAdventCalendar
For Day 8, I present an image from my plant pattern series, featuring the striped stalks of a ‘Peppermint’ chard.
In the limited space of our urban garden, I choose to grow colourful vegetables that are uncommon in the grocery store.
For Day 8, I present an image from my plant pattern series, featuring the striped stalks of a ‘Peppermint’ chard.
In the limited space of our urban garden, I choose to grow colourful vegetables that are uncommon in the grocery store.
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar
For Day 8, I present an image from my plant pattern series, featuring the striped stalks of a ‘Peppermint’ chard.
In the limited space of our urban garden, I choose to grow colourful vegetables that are uncommon in the grocery store.
For Day 8, I present an image from my plant pattern series, featuring the striped stalks of a ‘Peppermint’ chard.
In the limited space of our urban garden, I choose to grow colourful vegetables that are uncommon in the grocery store.
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 8
I made this embroidered aerial view of a shoreline a few years back. It includes different yarn fibres for the waves and patterned fabric rocks.
I made this embroidered aerial view of a shoreline a few years back. It includes different yarn fibres for the waves and patterned fabric rocks.
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 8
I made this embroidered aerial view of a shoreline a few years back. It includes different yarn fibres for the waves and patterned fabric rocks.
I made this embroidered aerial view of a shoreline a few years back. It includes different yarn fibres for the waves and patterned fabric rocks.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
[comes back] Look, I just need tech bros to understand that when people say "I do not want to use genAI", they don't mean "I want the ability to ignore it". They mean "I want the ability to nuke it from orbit because that is the ONLY way tech bros will respect people's choices NOT to use genAI".
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
[comes back] Look, I just need tech bros to understand that when people say "I do not want to use genAI", they don't mean "I want the ability to ignore it". They mean "I want the ability to nuke it from orbit because that is the ONLY way tech bros will respect people's choices NOT to use genAI".
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7
Another of my embroidered soft sculpture projects, this one is decorated with beads in addition to stitches. It wasn't my intention, but it definitely reminds me of a jellyfish.
Another of my embroidered soft sculpture projects, this one is decorated with beads in addition to stitches. It wasn't my intention, but it definitely reminds me of a jellyfish.
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7
Another of my embroidered soft sculpture projects, this one is decorated with beads in addition to stitches. It wasn't my intention, but it definitely reminds me of a jellyfish.
Another of my embroidered soft sculpture projects, this one is decorated with beads in addition to stitches. It wasn't my intention, but it definitely reminds me of a jellyfish.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
In remembrance:
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#EcolePolytehnique
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#EcolePolytehnique
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In remembrance:
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#EcolePolytehnique
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#EcolePolytehnique
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6
An abstract embroidery from a couple of years ago. I love the colour transitions that come from using variegated threads.
An abstract embroidery from a couple of years ago. I love the colour transitions that come from using variegated threads.
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6
An abstract embroidery from a couple of years ago. I love the colour transitions that come from using variegated threads.
An abstract embroidery from a couple of years ago. I love the colour transitions that come from using variegated threads.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
The color of the year is obviously Rage Red
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The color of the year is obviously Rage Red
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
Segway faded away but overhyping useless technology lives on every day.
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Segway faded away but overhyping useless technology lives on every day.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
I mean this with all sincerity, and I think I speak for a lot of others: we would rather see undisciplined, amateur art by hand than shitty AI "art" any day.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I mean this with all sincerity, and I think I speak for a lot of others: we would rather see undisciplined, amateur art by hand than shitty AI "art" any day.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.