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morethanmud.bsky.social
House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly
@morethanmud.bsky.social
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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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another from SCJ...
copper bust of a woman's head atop a black base.
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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"Chester" (made of hammered copper) by Sargent Claude Johnson
sculptural bust of a male head with his right hand resting against the right side of his head. the copper bust sits on a black base. same as before but from a more straightforward view
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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artist Sargent Claude Johnson
a man in a hat holds in his hands a sculpture he is working on
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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 Accra Optimists Club, 1930 - JK Bruce-Vanderpuije
12 black men in formal suit & tie gather around one side of a table (most sitting, some are standing) for the photo closer detail of the 6 men on the left side of the photo closer detail of the 6 men on the right side of the photo.
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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The Synchronist by Kajahl
painting of a black-skinned scientist dressed in black and wearing a squared beard sitting at a table of wonders (globes, candles, crystals, trinkets, etc). the figure sits on a balcony with a sea & jagged rocks at his back. close-up detail of the previous painting highlighting the figure's facial features: dark skin, full lips, strong nose, philosopher's hat. close-up detail of the black-skinned philosopher's desk containing gyros and obelisks and bottles and other small trinkets of medieval marvel.
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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do i need these for drawing? because i think i need these for drawing...
photo of tinted motorcycle goggles.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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more by mcgrath
illustration of a figure in a white dress floating above the ground near a black horse; a ray of orange/pink arcs between them.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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art by michael mcgrath
stylized illustration of a woman with butterfly wings flying over a garden scene illustration of a giant dragonfly between 3 figures below standing side by side and a floating eye weeping large tears between 2 flying black birds illustration of a dragonfly, 2 geese, a black bird and 3 celestial balls above a black mountain a figure in a black skirt floats above the ground next to a black dog-like animal near some bushes. in the background is a house next to a tree. two solar objects float in the sky.
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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someone trying to save your soul, obviously....
comicbook panel: a hatted man wearing glasses and a scarf mask holds up a yellow book with the words "the history of jazz" written on the cover. in a word bubble he says "a book--? who in satan's name would send me this book?"
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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every. single. time.
illustration of a wizard in robes and pointy hat inspecting a variety of different sized bottles before him. it is captioned "it's always the motherfuckers with no magic trying to tell you what to do with yours" - image was found uncredited on tumblr
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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tHiS cOuLd Be Us BuT yOu PlAyIn'....
still shot of the soul train dance line with dozens of people lined up on two sides waiting their turns to dance through the middle.
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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forever in love with the way Jack Davis drew Big Bird & Sesame Street
colorful illustration of all the sesame street puppets as autonomous characters running and playing chaoticly in a park colorful illustration of sesame street characters eating and making messes in a large kitchen. big bird wears a chef's hat and is serving spaghetti. illustration of a sesame street street-scene; bidg bird stands outside of mr. hooper's store holding several lollipops while other characters are in the background another illustrated sesame street street scene
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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by Akindele John
painting of two black-skinned women wearing blue dresses. their black hair assumes an umbrella shape, blending into a shared, united form. the left figure holds a red boxy container and the the right figure holds a white dove with a stalk of laurel in its beak. the background is pink with a single yellow sun encompassing the space behind both of their heads.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Volontaire by Madeline Berger
watercolor of a young black woman with palette colors of mostly green and orange of various saturations for skin and clothing. she wears what appears to be transparent horn-rimmed glasses and her hair is braided back in cornrows.
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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by Agnes Cecile
watercolor painting of a brown-skinned woman with hair plaited into several, thick, long braids. she wears a dress decorated with flowers and her shoulders are bare
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Poise and Presence by Abasiama Umoh
photo of a painting: a dark-skinned woman with full facial features and an afro sits with her back to an ornate wooden desk. a gold framed mirror is above the desk and she is dressed in a long white gown baring her brown shoulders.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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bookcover for Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883 edition) by Ignatius L. Donnelly illustrating how a comet crashing into or closely bypassing earth is what ended the last ice age ended.
photo of a book with a dark blue cover and gold illustrations of the sun, a comet, the earth, and a glacier.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The Skater
- Leonard Koscianski
bird's eye view painting of a neighborhood of a dozen small box houses covered in snow at night around a frozen moon-lit pond where a lone figure skates on the frozen aqua-green ice.
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The Puddle Bathers
- Fiona Watson
painting of winter scene: a snow-covered field with black birds around a watering hole or puddle near a group of stark black trees.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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in god we trust by Eric Amann
the words "in god we trust" repeated in 13 lines one above the other; with each line the dollar symbol replaces one letter starting from left to right until all the letters of the last line are fully replaced with dollar signs.
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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reportedly, Lois Duncan disapproved of hollywood turning her Hitchcockian psychological thriller into another slasher flick and tho ive never read her work i 100% agree with her...
bookcover for i know what you did last summer with a painted illistration of 4 young adukts, 2 male and 2 female, standing next to the open door of a car.
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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who robbed the louvre? right answers only.
photo of a bald grace jones shot by jean-paul goude. she is dark brown, wearing a white satin bowler hat completely covered in silvery crystals making the hat appear metallic or made of glass. a lit cigarette is clenched between her teeth and puckered lips. her eyebrow is a line of metallic silver.
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Storm by Brian Stelfreeze
illustration of the x-man character, storm, with a white mohawk with pink highlights. her brown skin appears atmospherically green (the sky behind her is green) as pink lightning streaks behind her.
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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or maybe it was spring 2024? 🤔 surely it hasnt been that long...

i only hesitate to consider because the sketches are preceded by the scraps of a poem at the front of my new collection of poems - THAT OFFICIALLY RELEASES TODAY!?!? a poem begun in spring of last year.
to lay prone as if black mold against the wall of you new gods rendered terribly mortal incised simply on the mere idea of love's tempestuous longing.
October 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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ah. the since-forgotten-about spring 2025 storyboarding for the planned graphic novel of my Fayre Gabbro suite of poems...

*stares wistfully out into the darkness*

"someday, my darling... someday."
quick sketch of a woman descending feom the clouds two close-up panels of a woman's face, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed sketch of a conch shell with a few lines of text, "the sun burgeons, a long division between terra and divinity, so sepia, so celestial. until, like yemoja stepping from her conch, gabbro emerges. drylongso." sketch of a floating eyeball surrounded by text, "love is a bouquet of apertures; lean into this lens. your depth of field curls and unfurls around your soft, dark diameter."
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM