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jenn's little art blog
jenn's little art blogAug 16, 2026
science vs. vegetable faces
i like to dilly dally on my way home from therapy because it's often the one day i go to manhattan and there's always some bullshit going on, especially between madison park and herald square. there were a bunch of boxes of books on one corner and one of the two that caught my eye and went home with me was the earth moves by dan hofstadter, relation to doug unknown. this was one of those history books where i can tell that dan da man knew what he was talking about but HOLY CROW did he use a lot ...
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Plush Diagnosis
Plush DiagnosisAug 2, 2026
Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Sepulchral art offers insights into historical Northern European attitudes toward mortality.
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jenn's little art blog
jenn's little art blogMay 14, 2026
deceive my eyes, please
trompe-l'œil, french for deceive the eye, is a very old - i'm talking ancient greek old, not hit clips old - artistic technique where 2d surfaces (like paper, canvas, walls) are turned into 3d works of optical illusion. i've written about op art on here before, as well as one of the great modern artists in the space, rené magritte, so we all as a society know and can agree that this is totally my shit. The Human Condition, 1933 by Rene Magritte optical illusions often require a hyper-realistic d...
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jenn's little art blog
jenn's little art blogMay 5, 2026
boterismo makes me smile
i have wanted to talk about the art of fernando botero for a couple weeks and part of me wanted to wait until i spent a day with my dear pal, juan, who i had not seen in person in at least a year until last week. here we both are in 2015 dressed as wayne and garth from wayne's world. wanna feel old? a decade ago, i was working out of bocoup's nyc office near canal plastics. we had an awesome wall mural by my then-co-worker, isaac durazo. it was the coolest part of that office, followed closely b...
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jenn's little art blog
jenn's little art blogMar 29, 2026
hand tremors and other physical disruptions to making art
a few years ago i was diagnosed with hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid, with one of the most self-disrupting symptoms at that time being hand tremors. when my hands shake, it makes for a very frustrating and unsuccessful session of drawing grids by hand for my pixel art paintings. autoimmune symptoms are typically heightened by the stress that they initially cause, a hilarious (laugh so i don't cry and get stressed out) and cruel cycle. to work through this adversity, i looked to...
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