Weekly 5 is a round-up the past week’s creative news, discoveries, and happenings in my world!
Best thing that happened in my world this week:
The Unfinished is now FINISHED! I had a good chunk of time this past Tuesday to tackle the last stack of notes remaining in my Unfinished Business folder. Now my various lists and notes are separated and more easily accessible in their new home in my little red filing cabinet. This has been one of those “stupid chores” I’ve been evading or picking at here and here for the last few years. I finally had the fire in me to get this task off my desk – literally and figuratively!
Why Toilets Keep Turning Up in Contemporary Art
From Artsy
These works may seem like, ahem, potty humor, but both are fundamentally concerned with the concept of art, turning everyday items connected to unhygienic bodily ablutions into luxurious sculptures. Today, many contemporary artists are creating new ways of thinking about toilets and bathrooms, asking audiences to consider social codes, gender discrimination, systemic violence, and sexual freedom. Many highlight the inherent eroticism of bathroom decoration, or exaggerate the disgust associated with toilets to question wider cultural discomforts.
©Maurizio Cattelan
Artist discovery: Robert Pruitt
My practice includes Sculpture, Animation and photography but is primarily focused on large scale, figurative drawings rooted in a fictive ethnography. Through dress and adornment, I juxtapose signs and symbols of Science and Science Fiction, Hip Hop, Afr-American culture and political struggles and African traditional cultures to reveal a radical past, present and future.
©Robert Pruitt
Desacralize your art supplies (for gods’ sake)
From Art Post on Substack
They were too pretty and pristine as whole crayons. But, as halves, I have felt additionally free to rip off the paper and use them on their sides, to take them out in my tiny bag where they’re surely getting smashed by other things (so far, not too badly), and to try out all kinds of layering possibilities without being worried about using them up (I still have the other halves, set aside in a repurposed tin, after all).
Playlist of the week:
This week’s playlist is dedicated to the memory of Beach Boys
co-founder Brian Wilson (1942-2025)
