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Hieronymous Borscht
@secretlentil.bsky.social
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— i'm helen
— making clothes while rome burns
https://secretlentil.com/pages/lentillinks
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It's the day before my open studio.
My display space, with a large hand painted wall in oranges, ochre and muted pink, with mostly black clothes on a rack, a row of abstract paintings on the wall, a rack of black and silver bags, and just a bit of my chandelier because I'm fucking fancy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Raoul thinks that gazing upon his feet may help.
Raoul is a gray tabby with one clipped ear. He's lying down with his head up, staring directly at us, with his large adorable front feet in the foreground.
December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Setting up for Saturday's open studio, featuring "(I'm Not Dead But Sometimes) I Don't Feel So Good."
In front of a long turquoise curtain, next to a clothing rack, the back of a black canvas jacket on a dress form says "I don't feel so good" in stitching and paint.
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I could have chosen clamming, junking or selling blood for self-employment, but not artist. 👀
Long alphabetical list of job options on a form.
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Hello. My not-handmade-BUT-uniquely-hand-dyed other shop has everything at 50% off. I'm on my way to the studio to pack orders so if you grab something now it will be in a box to you this afternoon!
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Dal DyeWorks along the top above a picture of a rack of my hand-dyed clothes against a hand-painted orange and pink wall. On the rack above the clothes I've written "this is not tie dye" in bright yellow pipe cleaners. Below that image, this text: ALSO did I mention that I did this in person? In real life? Using pipe cleaners? This is not tie dye. Don't make me tap the sign, people. — helen"
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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My one leaving-the-house appointment got cancelled, so I have the thrill of getting out of something (even though I wanted to do it) AND I can stay home in my pajamas all day and sew things for next week's open studio.
A dress form in my work space is wearing a black canvas jacket with cream piping trim, and there is a pile of black, white and silver canvas bags hanging on it. Another dress form in teh fuzzy background has a black detachable collar draped around its neck.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Bob Newhart on the phone. Bob Newhart on the phone.
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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We may have gone overboard with toppings. Would do again.
Close-up corner of a homemade pizza with possibly too many toppings and crispy brown cheese. Top shot of entire rectangular pizza on a parchment paper.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Oh it's a 70 pound max. This is from NY to Wisconsin. Is yours coast to coast?
USPS ground advantage is 120.65, Priority Mail 159.22, Priority Mail Express 488.35.
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Mike has taken to calling Jimmy "Mr. Cushions" which is funny enough, but he just called him "Sourdough Cushions" and I can't stop laughing.
Sourdough Cushions is a hefty orange and white cat. He's sitting on a table, on top of a white plastic bag, staring toward us, but yes, he was just licking it. Ewwww.
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I work in a big warehouse full of artists in Syracuse NY and our open studio event is December 6th. It's a great space. I'm building one-of-a-kind improvised clothes and paintings. That's what I do.
An abstract painting in browns and pinks with this text over it: secret lentil and Delavan Studios OPEN STUDIO - Saturday December 6th 10 until 5, Delavan Studios 501 W. Fayette St. Syracuse NY
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Persimmon with cat feet.
Overhead shot of a gray and black formica table with 4 gray cat feet and some floof along the top and one persimmon.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I had to block him first. I'm furious at how insulting it is to suggest that following a worldwide child sex trafficking ring involving the most powerful people in the world is some kind of GOTCHA to the "other side."

Also wanting it to matter and being surprised by it are 2 different things.
Will Stancil post: Also, very funny how the Dems keep trying to do this "release the Epstein files!" thing as a naked base pander in mimcry of the other side's conspiratorial muckraking, and then the files actually do get released, and it's like "oh wait Trump really is all over these things, he really did it huh"
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Instead of making the third one even larger than the 1st and 2nd I've got a reasonable one brewing back there. When I build clothes I mostly improvise but bags are not as open to that, so I drafted patterns for these as I made them. And by "drafted patterns" I mean "traced a shape on kraft paper."
Two large canvas bags on a dress form ar blurry in the foreground. In the back against a white wall, a smaller bag sits on an industrial sewing machine table with a light shining on it. The bag is black canvas, with a curved shape and mostly painted with white and silver. It has an arching zippered top but no straps yet.
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I made a handy flashcard.
Red background with pasted excerpt from Maxwell / Epstein email "that dog that hasn't barked is trump. VICTIM [name redacted] spent hours at my house with him"
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I'm making a cluster of bags out of canvas that I painted.
A large curved bag on a dress form in my workspace, with sewing machines and lights in the background. It's made of panels of differently painted black canvas, in white and gray with lots of silver dots.
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Duke Riley.
www.instagram.com/p/C18GfRJspE...
A recycled plastic container painted to look like inscribed ivory, with an ornate scene that includes a factory dumping waste into the water, someone hunting a whale, maybe someone drowning?
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Mamdani is going to impose Shari Lewis law, under which everyone's left forearm will be replaced with a cute fuzzy sheep puppet.
Performer Shari Lewis and Lambchop, a puppet
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Maddie went a few days without a gong performance but then we saw that the mallet had fallen down behind the sideboard. She's back to her regular schedule now.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Raoul Batmanuel, Faithful Protector of Clean Laundry
Raoul is a gray tabby cat and he's lying on a folded pair of pants at the top of a full laundry basket, his mouth gaping open so much his eyes are squinched shut. He's not reaaly fierce, he's just yawning.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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DANG. It's almost the density of cheesecake.
And very delicious.
Low slice of lemon loaf with glaze dripping down it, on an orange fiestaware plate in front of an orange wall.
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Our loaf is square.
The lemon loaf just came out of the oven and is on top of a black cast iron grill on our stove. It's in a square white pyrex pan with a green floral flourish on the side.
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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*taps the sign*
It's Bart Simpson in the classroom punishment-writing on the chalkboard. He's writing "AI is a fascist endeavor. If you're using AI you are fueling fascism."
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A friend and I used to come up with business card ideas that would ruin our businesses. Now I've made this. I continue to stand by my credo that I'm here to entertain myself.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Okay I'm ready to open the 3-ring binder.

(It's my studio sewing notes.)
My cutting surface, with a gray basket full of all black notions - ribbon, elastic, thread, and next to it a white three ring binder - the cover has brown kraft paper with a photo of Karl Marx and it says THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION above it. And above the text two hands are seizing it. I make myself laugh, you see.
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM