Ariana
@resonance-archive.bsky.social
Sculptor, printmaker, sound artist. Art/design educator.
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Ariana
@resonance-archive.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Some questions I’m working with in my practice: How does it feel to be porous? For the membrane that separates your body from its environment to thin, tear, or dissolve? What do we absorb in this state of vulnerability? What if this sublime merging is also the byproduct of pain, injury, or illness?
This was so moving and a reminder that we don’t have to live in a world without rituals, without attunement to the seasons, without ways of calling back to the Earth and offering something of ourselves. We can live an a world teeming with life💫❄️
Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the premiere of my piece Orchard Chorus with a wassail-inspired performance on Sunday.
And thank you to Nika of Greenpoint Cidery and the Oral History Summer School and Wave Farm for the support of this project.
(Online audio to come)
And thank you to Nika of Greenpoint Cidery and the Oral History Summer School and Wave Farm for the support of this project.
(Online audio to come)
February 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This was so moving and a reminder that we don’t have to live in a world without rituals, without attunement to the seasons, without ways of calling back to the Earth and offering something of ourselves. We can live an a world teeming with life💫❄️
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I've seen power users who post a lot on Bluesky forget to add alt-text. I know new habits are hard, but taking a few extra seconds to add alt-text to images increases accessibility for many other users and the site's experience overall. Please make a consistent effort to add alt-text to images.
If you're not used to writing alt text for every image, I found it helpful to enable this accessibility setting on both desktop and the Bluesky mobile app. The point is to be descriptive, as it helps users who visually impaired and blind, as well as users who have muted specific words or phrases.
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I've seen power users who post a lot on Bluesky forget to add alt-text. I know new habits are hard, but taking a few extra seconds to add alt-text to images increases accessibility for many other users and the site's experience overall. Please make a consistent effort to add alt-text to images.
As smooth as glass and hidden in plain sight. Handmade and embossed cotton and abaca fiber paper with embedded wood shavings from driftwood found on the shores of Lake Michigan.
I’m excited about this little experiment and can’t wait to make more.
I’m excited about this little experiment and can’t wait to make more.
February 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As smooth as glass and hidden in plain sight. Handmade and embossed cotton and abaca fiber paper with embedded wood shavings from driftwood found on the shores of Lake Michigan.
I’m excited about this little experiment and can’t wait to make more.
I’m excited about this little experiment and can’t wait to make more.
This week, I’m in the last stretch of installing a big project I’ve been working on for months. This is one tiny part:
Electrolyte Shield [homeostasis], 2025,
Salvaged Tetrapak, stainless steel jump rings, hand-carved poplar wood, petrified wood, stone, drift wood, water.
Electrolyte Shield [homeostasis], 2025,
Salvaged Tetrapak, stainless steel jump rings, hand-carved poplar wood, petrified wood, stone, drift wood, water.
February 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This week, I’m in the last stretch of installing a big project I’ve been working on for months. This is one tiny part:
Electrolyte Shield [homeostasis], 2025,
Salvaged Tetrapak, stainless steel jump rings, hand-carved poplar wood, petrified wood, stone, drift wood, water.
Electrolyte Shield [homeostasis], 2025,
Salvaged Tetrapak, stainless steel jump rings, hand-carved poplar wood, petrified wood, stone, drift wood, water.
For a long time, I’ve anticipated the collapse (or weakening/fracturing or coopting) of current U.S. arts funding streams. Federal, state, and local grant funding, & academic/institutional funding, but also the withdrawal of private foundations afraid of getting caught in political cross-hairs
February 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
For a long time, I’ve anticipated the collapse (or weakening/fracturing or coopting) of current U.S. arts funding streams. Federal, state, and local grant funding, & academic/institutional funding, but also the withdrawal of private foundations afraid of getting caught in political cross-hairs
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Congrats to Finnegan Shannon, whose work was a touchstone for Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (edited with Rebecca Sanchez, avail. open access)
nyupress.org/978147981936...
nyupress.org/978147981936...
February 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Congrats to Finnegan Shannon, whose work was a touchstone for Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (edited with Rebecca Sanchez, avail. open access)
nyupress.org/978147981936...
nyupress.org/978147981936...
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One thing I am genuinely excited about that is coming out of my current institution :
Totally agree. And it's great to see this *ambitious* Zimmerli Art Museum (@ Rutgers University) exhibition of indigenous art, which she curated!, is opening on February 1 (and up through December)! What a great way to celebrate her life.
February 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
One thing I am genuinely excited about that is coming out of my current institution :
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I spend quite a bit of money on subscriptions, but at this point I really think the mantra has to be, pay for the media you wish to see in the world
January 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend quite a bit of money on subscriptions, but at this point I really think the mantra has to be, pay for the media you wish to see in the world
Truly one of the few things keeping me from sliding into dysfunction and inaction is the physical, bodily pleasure of making things. I treat my art practice more like a bodily function—like eating or drinking water than as as an activity that distracts from urgent community work, mutual aid, etc.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Truly one of the few things keeping me from sliding into dysfunction and inaction is the physical, bodily pleasure of making things. I treat my art practice more like a bodily function—like eating or drinking water than as as an activity that distracts from urgent community work, mutual aid, etc.
Thinking about her: little Lake Michigan driftwood fragment swimming in a new tiny, inland sea. Part of a larger work I’m still building out in the studio this month about cold water swimming as pain relief. 🌀
January 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Thinking about her: little Lake Michigan driftwood fragment swimming in a new tiny, inland sea. Part of a larger work I’m still building out in the studio this month about cold water swimming as pain relief. 🌀
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Added @mikedangeli.bsky.social to the Indigenous Artists of Bluesky Starter Pack Vol. 1
Check out Vol. 1-3 in my Starter Packs for more Indigenous Artists to follow on Bluesky.
If you're an Indigenous Artist and would like to be added comment below or send my a DM.
go.bsky.app/CgoknnP
Check out Vol. 1-3 in my Starter Packs for more Indigenous Artists to follow on Bluesky.
If you're an Indigenous Artist and would like to be added comment below or send my a DM.
go.bsky.app/CgoknnP
January 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Added @mikedangeli.bsky.social to the Indigenous Artists of Bluesky Starter Pack Vol. 1
Check out Vol. 1-3 in my Starter Packs for more Indigenous Artists to follow on Bluesky.
If you're an Indigenous Artist and would like to be added comment below or send my a DM.
go.bsky.app/CgoknnP
Check out Vol. 1-3 in my Starter Packs for more Indigenous Artists to follow on Bluesky.
If you're an Indigenous Artist and would like to be added comment below or send my a DM.
go.bsky.app/CgoknnP
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How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:
January 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:
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Two Coats put together a list of other people you’d like to hang out with at an opening —> go.bsky.app/UfTv98D
January 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Two Coats put together a list of other people you’d like to hang out with at an opening —> go.bsky.app/UfTv98D
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artlinks artlinks yayyyyyyy artlinks!
January 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
artlinks artlinks yayyyyyyy artlinks!
I love seeing people’s art but I also love hearing the ways artists think.
For visual artists newly arriving to text based platforms & missing image-sharing, I offer some ways to lean into this form as it is:
For visual artists newly arriving to text based platforms & missing image-sharing, I offer some ways to lean into this form as it is:
January 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I love seeing people’s art but I also love hearing the ways artists think.
For visual artists newly arriving to text based platforms & missing image-sharing, I offer some ways to lean into this form as it is:
For visual artists newly arriving to text based platforms & missing image-sharing, I offer some ways to lean into this form as it is:
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It was amazing to see the multiple bylines below headlines about the impact of the fires on artists and the art community in LA from the NYTimes and Hyperallergic. It also highlighted the difference in resources compared to ARTnews.
January 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It was amazing to see the multiple bylines below headlines about the impact of the fires on artists and the art community in LA from the NYTimes and Hyperallergic. It also highlighted the difference in resources compared to ARTnews.
I strongly identify with this yellow-clad cautious lad. Welcome @goblinpurwin.bsky.social ☀️
January 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I strongly identify with this yellow-clad cautious lad. Welcome @goblinpurwin.bsky.social ☀️
Some of my favorite artists are trickling in and it’s making me, dare I say, hopeful (?)
Bound-to
Handcarved and ebonized walnut, linen
Brooch
2024
Going to start posting here and see how it goes.
Handcarved and ebonized walnut, linen
Brooch
2024
Going to start posting here and see how it goes.
January 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Some of my favorite artists are trickling in and it’s making me, dare I say, hopeful (?)
Some questions I’m working with in my practice: How does it feel to be porous? For the membrane that separates your body from its environment to thin, tear, or dissolve? What do we absorb in this state of vulnerability? What if this sublime merging is also the byproduct of pain, injury, or illness?
January 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Some questions I’m working with in my practice: How does it feel to be porous? For the membrane that separates your body from its environment to thin, tear, or dissolve? What do we absorb in this state of vulnerability? What if this sublime merging is also the byproduct of pain, injury, or illness?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the mixed feelings many people are holding about the necessity of virtual spaces for community organizing and the dissemination of creative work—which for many artists, writers, scholars, etc—are intertwined.
January 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’ve been thinking a lot about the mixed feelings many people are holding about the necessity of virtual spaces for community organizing and the dissemination of creative work—which for many artists, writers, scholars, etc—are intertwined.