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Celestial Body

@celestialbody.space
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Typographic artist using braille as an ironic visual metaphor to express underrepresented ideals and identities. (She/Her)

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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 06/05/2026
Stone Gardens We once built wonderous gardens with the dead, where one could walk among the living and talk to the stones. It's interesting how much our views on, and interaction with these places, have changed in the last 150 years. Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 01/05/2026
0.01 % of 8 Billion is 800,000 I always find our perception of scale falters when we get in to these numbers. Trying to reconcile that number with the fullness of even one life, its like trying to hold 10,000 years in your mind. Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 29/04/2026
Fish on a Lamppost and the loss of public art. Yeah that will be one of the more out their titles ill ever write, but don't worry you didn't just lose braincells, it does say what you think, and that does indeed imply that fish covered lampposts will teach us. Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 23/04/2026
Earthenware memes - Staffordshire ceramics Something fascinating was captured when the market for ceramics in 19th century England shifted. Now im aware that “fascinating” and “19thC English ceramic market” aren’t 2 things many would place together, but... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Earthenware memes - Staffordshire ceramics
Something fascinating was captured when the market for ceramics in 19th century England saw a shift. Now im aware that “fascinating” and “the 19thC English ceramic market” aren’t two things many would...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 21/04/2026
Brass flowers Entrenched by others greed & fear, we carve our humanity in to shell casings, ironic reminder of their canvases antithesis. Brass flowers in the mud. Trench art is perhaps the most poignant medium of art we have... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 17/04/2026
Another's tongue on your meal. That is how id best surmise a lot of online discourse. Comment sections seem to have moved on from the long lost age of "first" through to a thousand open mic nights, on now to wading through ten thousand more contrarians... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 16/04/2026
Under Pressure It is the September of 1940, France has fallen, the people caught by bombs, blitzkrieg, and broken leadership. The mailed fist of fascism tightens. Those who work in cultural/national institutions find out they are to be replaced... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 15/04/2026
Peripheral failings. It's safe to say we've all seen at least one video online in which a situation unfolds dramatically & suddenly. I think its also fair to say that we've all seen comments on such videos to the affect of "how did they not see that coming" Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 15/04/2026
Caught in the rain
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 14/04/2026
On to the next, you haven't finished the last. An incessant rush, feckless & headlong. You "looked" before you leapt, but what you looked at was the promise of what's next, not the gap in front of you. Now the fall has started, is it too late to catch ourselves.. Read more: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 13/04/2026
Torn a sonder Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor' A descriptive title for a painting, its neutrality matched to its subject. It is in that neutrality we find the openness to apply ourselves outside of ego... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 30/03/2026
A Real-Time Social System. That is, in-part, the title of an artwork created by Hans Haacke Utilising maps, photographs of buildings, documentation both of the properties and myriad intermediary shell corporations that owned them... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/a-real-...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 18/02/2026
You don’t need permission - Guerrilla Art Whilst I know the obvious thing to write about here is graffiti, this goes beyond that, beyond mediums. From the performance art of protest and its painted placards, through intermingled poetry with political outcry... Read more at: tinyurl.com/fr5xctbb
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 18/02/2026
I loved capturing this moment. Taken whilst in Paris on a work trip, the sun had not been out for days. Yet at golden hour on the last day, it came through. I went out, and there across the road was this woman. Amongst all the hectic beautiful movement that is Paris… stopped in a moment of bliss
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 23/01/2026
The Dead Can't Take Selfies - Why art must stand up for itself. The online space is particularly fixated on this idea that an artworks value should be inexorably linked to that artists social network... Read more at: tinyurl.com/n6a2wh3f
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 21/01/2026
Do you see the people paint? Painting the face of angry men. It is the morning of the 14th of July 1789, A thousand civilians stand before the imposing cold stone walls of a medieval fortress known as the 'Bastille'... Read more at : www.romangraffiti.blog/post/do-you-...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 16/01/2026
What can you do? It's 1830, acclaimed French painter Delacroix writes to his brother; "My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work. I've embarked on a modern subject—a barricade. And if I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her". Read more: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/what-ca...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 09/01/2026
From the Third of May to the Third of January It is the start of the 19th century, throughout Spain (and the rest of Europe) the reigning Spanish Sovereign, Charles IV, is regarded as an ineffectual cuck in all aspects of his life. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/from-th...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 08/01/2026
I miss when I could hear what my friends had to say online, when their words weren't drowned out by facsimiles of their own voice thrown by profits algorithmic ventriloquists.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 11/12/2025
An unprofitable truth. Art does not need to be owned to be experienced. Its fullness can be drunk in without a share in a company, or purchase price paid. All it requires is you to be there with it. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/an-unpr...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 10/12/2025
Flawed and Forced Perspectives. No post production VFX or AI models are needed to fool us, and despite all our self assured statements about how "we can always tell what's real" our egos cannot alter the path of light to our eyes. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/flawed-...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 09/12/2025
You aren't seeing the bigger picture A narrow rectangle makes up our window, 3 inches wide and 6 inches tall. Rather than look to all that could be outside this slight frame, we have compressed our worlds to fit inside it... a reduced approximation Read more: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-are...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 08/12/2025
You're surrounded by manipulative, amoral, "cant's" know how I know? Because you're on social media, and in 2025 it is nigh on impossible to partake in this particular online landscape without being surrounded by an abundance of these people... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-re-...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 03/12/2025
Cultural cannibals - The intersection of nostalgia and propaganda. We are desperately clawing at today, trying to tear its face off, just to get a look at yesterdays smile. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/cultura...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 26/11/2025
You're doing maths, not curating art I took a look over some of our "leading Light" accounts in the crypto art space. I scrolled back a few weeks, a month or 2 maybe, on each of them, and you know what I saw? Not a single post talking about art... Read more: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-re-...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 10/11/2025
Thieves of Eyes & Legs It is no longer enough to have ones finger on the pulse, now you need to have that blood under a microscope, checking each cell everyday and posting your findings quickly before it oxidises and the content impact is lost. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/thieves...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 28/10/2025
Mistimed Magic - Technical mastery cant fix poor thinking. We've all seen this, a stunningly rendered movie monster fills the screen, that shot cuts to the next where the actor stumbles back.... and the cables on which you suspended you disbelief snap.... www.romangraffiti.blog/post/mistime...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 27/10/2025
Standing ovations for simple jokes - How outsized praise distorts outside perception. We see this with regularity in the art world, some piece is held up, elevated by the oligarchs or institutions, and we all scratch our heads wondering why? Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/standin...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 24/10/2025
The collective is greater than the corporation - Artists against the machine A group of titans stands atop us, demanding ever more of our space, and that we pay a subscription for the privilege of what little we have left... Read more at : www.romangraffiti.blog/post/the-col...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 20/10/2025
Swarm Tactics- Focusing collectives to amplify messages. You feel stuck, helpless. They’ve flooded the feed with noise, so genuine cries can hardly be heard. The news cycle a deranged treadmill chewing our legs off... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/swarm-t...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 16/10/2025
Optical alignment - Misplaced notions and outrage. You’ll see these posts occasionally they’ll take a logo from a large brand, draw centre lines across them, and gleefully tweet about how “big company make dumb mistake” because the image doesn’t line up. www.romangraffiti.blog/post/optical...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 09/10/2025
Divine intervention - Shock, Disruption and Senselessness in art. This notion of shock, of disruption, recurs throughout art history. Each time it occurs it brings forth discussion, and in the ideal, that discussion brings needed change... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/divine-...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 02/10/2025
You don’t need permission - Guerrilla Art. From the performance art of protest and its painted placards, through intermingled poetry with political outcry, to replacing a companies hold music with “ciao Bella”, art is needed everywhere now... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-don...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 26/09/2025
They replaced it all with grey - The importance of graffiti No one ever asked the people if they could destroy the forest. No one asked you if they could block the blue sky with grey bricks and blind the stars with lesser lights... Read the full post at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/they-re...
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 22/04/2025
One of my few physical artworks. A series of printed receipts & poems documenting and reflecting on the aids epidemic. They denote death toll and moments of defiance These receipts were then scanned in, recompiled, and printed on birchwood to decompose.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 07/03/2025
We need more political art. So much more. In fact we, as the contemporary wave of artists and collectors, have a responsibility to raise our voices with hard spoken words. For we teeter on the edge of loss So we need maps drawn to guide us back to hope & deliver us from evil.
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Mars Dorian - commissions open! @marsdorian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Today‘s sketch: A disturbed boy 2025 (Experimental character design)
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 05/03/2025
No angel will reach out to stay our hand. We must accept that the choice is ours. Do we sacrifice the needs of tomorrow, to indulge our wants today? Do we lick the boot? Or help pry it off the necks of others.
A black and white image, textured like charcoal, rough in shades. At its centre A grotesque man reaches out their arm in a horrific salute. All around him people flee or reach out to hold him back. Below him hundreds of people leap to be crushed beneath his bulk and lick his boots. Around the page are columns of text, they contain the Panama papers, names of Jan 6th criminals, and a report in to facebooks role in genocide.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 31/01/2025
If there are limitations, create strengths around them. Dont bastardise an idea by forcing it in to another’s skin. Art first, always.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 27/01/2025
The Aftermath of Greed This building stood for over 100 years, it had protected status. The newest owners left it, much needed housing, vacant, derelict, rotting, for a decade. Simply because the land was more profitable without the building The city was recently forced to destroy it for safety.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 31/12/2024
NASA and JPLs DSN explored through art. Typography, illustration, and digital collage combine with subtle elements of poetry. Focused in particular on Canberra. I sourced the collage elements by collecting and scanning a large amount of vintage paperwork.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 20/12/2024
A definite contender for my favourite photo of those I’ve taken. The area is a set of overpasses, the pedestrian is just emerging from a tunnel that has a LED billboard in it providing the backlight. Shot at 200mm handheld, stretching up over a wall, leaning beneath a railing.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 16/12/2024
Moments
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altgnon @altgnon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
putting words in my mouth
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 12/12/2024
Sometimes photos aren’t perfectly sharp or in focus for whatever reason, but that’s not always an excuse to discard them. Else you run the risk of cutting off your nose to spite your face”
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 11/12/2024
We won’t be stopped; Be it poverty or madness, missing parts or materials, from glaucoma to government restriction… We wont be stopped. Because we can’t stop, the world is too much for us not to react to it, we are violently artistic. We won’t stop.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 09/12/2024
I didn’t expect fall in love with street photography so much. It’s forcing me to face my social anxiety, at the same time as helping me expand my creative outlook and skill set
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 04/12/2024
Getting better at finding photos and following the light. Trying to vary my editing so as to treat each photo as its own piece, rather than just throw my presets at them.
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 02/12/2024
Trying to improve everyday, hunting light, having patience when I find a spot. All the moments in between taking the photos
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Celestial Body @celestialbody.space · 02/12/2024
Sunset street photography practice around Vancouver
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