Hidden Figures
I cannot recommend this movie enough. It’s very important to me as a person of color who also studied science and always looked to space. (I’m pretty sure my eyes weren’t dry at any point.)
Would love to know the artist’s name/handle so that I can provide credit…can anyone help, please?
FEATURED ARTIST: Tschabalala Self
Tschabalala Self’s current body of work is concerned with the iconographic significance of the Black female body in contemporary culture. Her work explores the emotional, physical and psychological impact of the Black female body as icon and is primarily devoted to examining the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality. Collective fantasies surround the Black body, and have created a cultural niche in which our contemporary understanding of Black femininity exists. The artist’s practice is dedicated to naming this phenomenon.
Tschabalala Self lives and works in both New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. She is trained as a painter but her work extends to printmaking and sculpture. In all mediums, Self explores both the formal and conceptual tensions between two and three- dimensionality.
Tschabalala Self, Swayze, 2016. Mirrored plexiglass and wood. 72” (H) x 22” (W) x 2” (D) inches. Image courtesy Tschabalala Self and T293 Gallery.
Covers from Der Hammer, a Yiddish communist magazine. [x]
happy labor day, my fellow north american yidden
The Milky Way Mirrored On Salt Flats In Bolivia
In May 2016, Russian photographer, Daniel Kordan, traveled to the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia – the world’s largest salt flat and took some photos that look out of this world. Using a Nikon D810A astrophotography DSLR and a 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikon lens, he managed to capture the Milky Way being reflected on the flooded salt flat at night, and the results are absolutely breathtaking.
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