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Joel Pedersen

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Human. Artist. Doing human, artist things in the desert at xxyxxy.com! - Born at CO2 327ppm. - Find me at https://mastodon.art/@joel when this place eventually goes bad!

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · Aug 20

So, I've landed on offering small prints to fill in the gaps in paintings, and since I've been doing a lot more sketching lately.

Anyway, they're up on xxyxxy.com/available/Pr... if you're interested in checking them out!

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 2h

Oh!
How nice,
a lecture
from a stranger
on the internet
about how I should feel,
about how my failures are
simply an error in thinking,
about how they know so much better.

#poetry #reverseNonet

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Vincent @chente.bsky.social · 6d

When the birdseed doesn’t have sunflower seeds.

A lil red bird on a branch saying, “cheap.”

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French New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social · 7h

#MondayMotivation

Andrei Tarkovsky:
the artist exists because the world is not perfect

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 6h

their policies entangle us
to strangle us

and any support they will chop
until we stop

every single act doubling
our struggling

they do not find this troubling
quite the contrary; it is bliss
and they cannot, will not resist
to strangle us until we stop our struggling

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry

Our Struggling

A 5x7 fine-art print from a graphite illustration of a prime minister from decades ago. Image is printed 4x6 with a 1/2 inch border on a 5x7 inch sheet of 50lb matte paper. (May be shipped first class...

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 21h

oof! yes!

Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 1d

he sneaks into your home at night
in a sort of self righteous trance
and takes a most perverse delight
peeing in all of your houseplants
then he dances a little dance
with an ingratiating bow
and slyly removing his pants
ponders the things that you allow

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #huitain

A Little Dance

A 5x7 fine-art print from a graphite illustration of an architect of destruction talking. Image is printed 4x6 with a 1/2 inch border on a 5x7 inch sheet of 50lb matte paper. (May be shipped first cla...

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 2d

Lovely!

Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 2d

they
are not
to be held
responsible;
this is their entire party platform

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

Held Responsible

A 5x7 fine-art print from a graphite illustration of some speaker evading responsibility. Image is printed 4x6 with a 1/2 inch border on a 5x7 inch sheet of 50lb matte paper. (May be shipped first cla...

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 2d

I got a very kind email about this book this week so I figure it’s time to remind all you gentlefolk I have a book out and people seem to be really enjoying it! 📖📚🔭

Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Mar 19

Hello folks in spite of The Everything™️, my next book is out in one week!! 7 days!

If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!

To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...

🧪🔭📚 #booksky

The author’s hand holding a copy of 40 Ways to Know A Star, by Jillian Scudder, PhD, against a beige wall.

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 3d

from whence
all this brutal
violence? Well, I have
a notion, but you're not gonna
like it

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

This Brutal Violence

A 5x7 fine-art print from a graphite illustration of a gun toting family. Image is printed 4x6 with a 1/2 inch border on a 5x7 inch sheet of 50lb matte paper. (May be shipped first class without track...

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 3d

I’m right there with you on the Meta front. I think the federated activityPub sites will be viable for longer than BlueSky, frankly, just because of how it’s organized, and who is funding it.

Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 3d

Didn’t realize you were on the fediverse. Followed you there as well!

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Sillycat Glassblower @sillycatglass.bsky.social · 4d

Création d’une Feuille Éternelle 🍂✨️Creation of an eternal leaf 🍂✨️

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 4d

Hey! I'm gonna post this reminder every now and then: You can now check my books out from the San Diego County Library (via Inter-Library Loan if you're outside of this system). Hot damn, I love the library!

#poetry #library

Search — San Diego County Library

Explore San Diego County Library. New titles, recently rated, and recently tagged by the library community.

sdcl.bibliocommons.com

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 4d

Abstract land/seascape in blue and white. Mixed media on panel, 40 x 50cm #abstractart #landscape #seascape #mountains #coast #mixedmedia #irishart

A heavily textured mixed media (oil, acrylic & charcoal) painting: landscape/seascape in limited palette. Very hard to describe! Suggestion of water in the foreground, with strong indigo marks on the left, shoreline behind, with right edge accentuated by brighter blue. Charcoal outline of hills behind, roughly shaded in same grey/white as the sky.

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 4d

contempt, delivered
with indignation,
without a care for
their reputation

#graphiteOnPaper #poetry #lethrannaegechtMor #bondiBites

Without A Care

A 5x7 fine-art print from a graphite illustration of some unscrupulous attorney general about to sell out yet again. Image is printed 4x6 with a 1/2 inch border on a 5x7 inch sheet of 50lb matte paper...

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · Aug 19

Still thinking about last Saturday, driving on the Oregon Coast, south of Bandon where I took the photo that inspired this painting! I don’t think I could replicate that lighting if I tried, it was one in a million conditions. 😍

#watercolor #landscape #ocean #OregonCoast #driftwood #art