#lesley oldaker

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Lesley Oldaker

Circle Time, 2018

Oil on canvas

#lesley oldaker #art #painting #oil painting #oil on canvas #contemporary art

[elixir]

Interrelations, Lesley Oldaker, 2022

#lesley oldaker #photography #art #nature #landscape #aesthetic #portrait #contemporary art #painting #abstract #architecture #curators on tumblr

[pankurios-templeovarts]

Lesley Oldaker, Into the Light.

#Lesley Oldaker #art #contemporary art

[guy60660]

Lesley Oldaker

#lesley oldaker #art #transit

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Art: Painting by Lesley Oldaker)

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Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

~Kahlil Gibran (Book: The Garden of The Prophet)

[Philo Thoughts]

#Kahlil Gibran #The Garden of the Prophet #Philo Thoughts #Lesley Oldaker

[unsubconscious]

Lesley Oldaker, 'A New Day’, 2021 Oil on canvas, 50 x 50cm

[l-just-want-to-see]

something in the static by @bonerot19

on the American tragedy, rivers, parents that loved you up until the time they couldn’t save you, friendship, Hamlet, the seemingly unending darkness at the end of the tunnel and then, nevertheless, the light.

nodus tollens definition, Eunoia / Sisyphus, Andrew Bird / THE NIGHT BEFORE I LEAVE HOME, Elisa Gonzalez / After the Movie, Marie Howe + Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin / The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald / Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson + Van Gogh Never Watched The World Burn, Aja Trier / A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara / @/bitsbyt3s on Twitter / An American Tragedy (1931) movie poster / Rivers, Nicolás Guilén + Ophelia, John Everett Millais / Funeral for Unreturned Ashes, Travis Chi Wing Lau / Homesick, Noah Kahan / “The world is a beautiful place,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti + Hamlet’s ‘Antic Disposition’, Reviews Rangs and Rambles / The Holdovers (2023) / Nothing Changes, Hadestown / Another Day, @/lesley-oldaker on devianart / Some days of wine and pastry, Samiya Bashir / First Light Last, Paul Mariani / Poster by Despair, Inc. / My Own Private Idaho, @bellamysgriffin / Disco Elysium / @catadromously / Dead Stars, Ada Limón + phot from pexels by cottonbro studio / The View Between Villages (Extended Version), Noah Kahan /@catadromously / An Incomplete List Of Platonic Soulmates, Molly Burford / énouement definition, eunoia

#Jason todd #stephanie brown #batfamily #something in the static #<- love this series fr

[primordialsoundmeditation]

You cannot save anyone. You can be present with them, offer your groundedness, your sanity, your peace. You can even share your path with them, offer your perspective. But you cannot take away their pain. You cannot walk their path for them. You cannot give answers that are right for them, or even answers they can digest right now. They will have to find their own answers. ~Jeff Foster

(Book: The Way of Rest https://amzn.to/3YMoy2C )

( Art Credit: Lesley Oldaker )

#ad #English #novel #modern #literature

English Literature

[eddy25960]

Lesley Oldaker "Circle Time"

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Lesley Oldaker

Panic, 2020

Oil on canvas.

#lesley oldaker #art #painting #contemporary art #figurative art #figurative painting #oil painting #oil on canvas

[entheognosis]

There was no country to which one could flee, no quiet which one could purchase; always and everywhere the hand of fate seized us and dragged us back into its insatiable play. Constantly men had to subordinate themselves to the demands of the State, to become the prey of the most stupid politics, to adapt themselves to the most fantastic changes. Always the individual was chained to the common lot, no matter how bitterly he objected; he was carried along irresistibly.

Stefan Zweig

illustration by Lesley Oldaker

#stefan zweig

[kafkaesquebibliomaniac]

(The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald)

(Artwork by Lesley Oldaker.)

#bookworm #book quotes #quotes #wordsnquotes #poetry #literature #franz kafka #classics #writers and poets #painting #the great gatsby #f. scott fitzgerald

[guy60660]

Lesley Oldaker

#lesley oldaker #art

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Painting by Lesley Oldaker.

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All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "naturally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, stock manipulation, insider training, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system. 

~Michael Parenti (Book: Blackshirts and Reds)

[Philo Thoughts]

#Michael Parenti #Blackshirts and Reds #Lesley Oldaker #Philo thoughts #quotes #conservative ideologies #inequalities #income inequality

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Lesley Oldaker - Self Acceptance (2017-18)

mydarkenedeyes via penna-zerodue

[unsubconscious]

Lesley Oldaker ‘Past Times’, 2013 Oil on canvas, 150 x 125cm