墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Haven't posted in a while because I was burned out on social media, but I see all the accounts that were shithead sinophobes on X are the same here. Way to go, guys. Being racist asses on one platform just didn't cut it, huh? 010
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 07/01/2025So in April I'm returning to China with a friend. Two destinations are set: Shanghai, because she wants to see it, Hangzhou because me + Xiling society = happiness. Recommend us museums, historical sights, both ancient and China's modern/socialist period, curiosities to visit etc. 050
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 03/01/2025人無癖情無深 "Those who have no strange obsessions lack deep sentiments" 3 by 3 cm First side inscription: 同癖齋印 "seal of the pavilion of shared obsessions" Second side inscription: 墨花刻 2025.01.03 "carved by Inkflower on 2025.01.03" Seal script Based on《長岱•祁止祥癖》 011
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 21/12/2024心齋 Fasting of the heart-mind 2.5 by 2.5 cm Seal script 150
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Got these absolutely beautiful Qingtian 青田 seal stones! Already have a project for most of these, can't wait to start carving them. Zhou Lianggong noted of his brother that he loved seal stones so much, whenever he got any, he held them in his palms and looked at them into the night. Can understand. 140
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 18/12/2024吾書 "My book/calligraphy/writing" 2 by 2 cms seal script side inscription: 吾無知也 "I am the one lacking knowledge" Initially wanted this to be my 藏書印, but the many possible meanings of 書 made me realize this is a multipurpose seal. I love how abstract and art deco it is. #china #art #sealcarving 161
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Been editing a volume of essays on Chinese thought for our department's quarterly publication. It was and to an extent still is a bumpy fucking ride, three people danced back on publishing with us, but so far we have about 75 pages. Dare I say we are so back? I'm enthusiastic about it again. 040
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 14/12/2024So I post a lot about seal carving stuff, but would anyone be interested in the seals that I carve through my studies? Like this one saying 吾心在太古 "my heart-mind in remote antiquity" in seal script. #china #history #carvedseal #sealcutting #sealscript #art #xiling #hangzhou #antiquity #stranger 020
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 13/12/2024From simple to simplified through oracle bone, seal, chancellor, traditional regular and simplified regular on 龍/龙 and 鑿/凿. 7 hour train ride got me tweaking. #china #history #calligraphy #oraclebones #sealscript #chancellorscript #regularscript #traditional #simplified 0121
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 12/12/2024What happens when you have awesome DnD nerds for friends? You get amazing hand painted Beholders as gifts. 🤩😍 #dnd #beholder #nerds 020
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Nightly reading about Wu Changshuo and learned of two interesting concepts he employed. Seal for attention, also seals like this is why Wu is still the GOAT of seal carving. Read on below. 151
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Chuds say Ally Louks' PhD thesis devalues the institution of doctoral studies while having full subscriptions to Ph-so-called-D programs of hacks like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate of all people. Pull your heads out of Elon's ass. Get a goddamn grip. Go outside. Touch grass. 011
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Ordered a set of these gorgeous Qingtian stones, each will be dedicated to a carver that influenced me, in no particular order: Wu Changshuo, Zhao Zhiqian, Huang Mufu, Deng Shiru and Chen Guobin. A sixth different stone will be dedicated to Zhou Lianggong. My switch Deng Shiru out with Qi Baishi. 230
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Nearing my 13th playthrough of SOMA over the years, that timeless masterpiece by @frictionalgames.bsky.social Over the years and repetitions it never lost even one ounce of its depth. Seal depicts a stylized Construct waving to Simon with scan lines distorting Simon's vision. Side inscription: 感谢. 022
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I swear, the《賴古堂印譜》from 1667 has some of the most dramatic seals I ever saw. This one says "first among the sorrowful men all under heaven". Beautiful seal tho. 1110
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Ever since I first saw seals carved by Chen Guobin 陈国斌, I have been obsessed. How tf does he achieve this effect? And the way how deliberate his carving is, like this seal: it's off center both as a whole and as single characters, yet the full effect is still harmonious. #china #art #chenguobin 040
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 05/12/2024From the《賴古堂印譜》1667, based on the biography of Tao Hongjing in the Biographies of hermits chapter of The history of the Southern Dynasties by Li Yanshou: "[he read books by the ten thousands] and if he ever found anything he didn't know, a deep sense of shame overcame him". 😎 051
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Hungarian artist Imre Baász (1941-1991) in 1977 illustrated Hungarian poet Endre Ady's (1877-1919) poem titled "Two kurucz [soldiers] talking". For the occasion he carved a seal, but it was created with the same aqua forte technique as the illustration itself. Beautiful! #art #poetry #baasz #ady 070
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Almost midnight here and was planning to go to sleep, but discovered the calligraphy of Southern Song painter Chen Rong 陳容 (c. 1200–1266) and oh my...love at first sight! His writing seems so modern, it's gorgeous! Need more, much-much more! #china #history #calligraphy #art 0131
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Today I was learning about "set seals" 套印, aka "child and mother seals" 子母印 because they are a larger seal with a smaller seal inside. Large and small seals all have inscriptions: two, even three. Prominent from the Eastern Han all the way to Wei-Jin and Six dynasties. #china #history #seal #art 1124
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Seeing right wing gobshites whine about @allylouks.bsky.social thesis about the literary representation of smells and their social implications, and NOT OF THE SMELLS THEMSELVES, I might write something about the literary representation of the taste of ink in the 飲墨 "drinking ink" tradition. 180
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 03/12/2024So I ordered a Zhao Zhiqian 赵之谦 seal book off Amazon, but got refunded because turns out the listing was up, but they didn't have the book in warehouse. So then I took my money to AliExpress and ordered this seal book about Huang Mufu 黄牧甫. 040
Reposted by 墨花Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 01/12/2024!New article! - Detectives and Thieves an Asia I It deals with the relationship of Edogawa Ranpo and Maurice Leblanc's writings. You can read it here: juewangshidai.neocities.org/Ranpo_articlejuewangshidai.neocities.orgDetectives and Thieves in Asia I 033
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 01/12/2024This 17th century seal saying "sober and crazy" makes me feel so seen. 😂 Finally, someone who doesn't blame his insanity on alcohol. 😎 #china #history #carvedseal #sealcutting #mingdynasty #qingdynasty #sober #crazy 170
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 30/11/2024"A record of the Buddhist monasteries of Luoyang"《洛陽伽藍記》be wild like that sometimes. There follows a lengthy description of what he supposedly saw in the netherworld. #china #buddhism #yangxuanzhi #luoyang #netherworld 051
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 28/11/2024When Emperor Yao presented to the throne to Xu You, the latter ran to the hills and washed out his ears in the Ying river. Qao Fu, another sage, wanted to water his ox in the river, but lead it away complaining that Xu You contaminated the river. 0144
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 26/11/2024利於人謂之巧，不利於人謂之拙。《墨子·魯問》 "Anything that benefits people is called skillful, and what doesn't is called inept" (Mozi - Lu's questions) Mulberry paper, seal script and red ink to make it look properly imperial. 0124
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Learning about Han military seals. These were often carved in the moment, very fast as ranks switched, some demoted, others promoted. Hence they were called 急就章 "haphazardly carved seals". I love their style, so natural, reminds me of contemporaries like Chen Guobin. 34515
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 19/11/2024One section from Wang Yangming's "Instructions on practical living" I chose for our yearly essay contest. The other one will probably be something about the highest form of good 至善 being the mind perfectly encompassing the principle of nature 天理. Eng. Trans.: Wing-tsit Chan. 041
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Time for our yearly essay context. This year I think I'm going to suggest something either from Instructions for practical living or one of the Ming essays. Let's see how it goes. High school students get the excerpt, they have to write on it, winner is granted university entry without entry exam. 021
Reposted by 墨花墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I love the《警世通言》because you're just chilling reading the story and suddenly someone says 若胡說時，變做七十二隻雌狗，在押司娘家吃屎 "If I'm being untruthful, may I be reincarnated as seventy two dogs all eating shit around your house." 😂😂😂 #china #literature #fengmenglong #storiestocautiontheworld #mingdynasty 052
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I love the《警世通言》because you're just chilling reading the story and suddenly someone says 若胡說時，變做七十二隻雌狗，在押司娘家吃屎 "If I'm being untruthful, may I be reincarnated as seventy two dogs all eating shit around your house." 😂😂😂 #china #literature #fengmenglong #storiestocautiontheworld #mingdynasty 052
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Checking whether these ones by Hong Mai are on the table. My eyes hurt. 150
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Reading how Xu Wei was considered a child prodigy, he could write eight legged essays at 8 yrs old, was a xiucai by the time he was 20, but after a short military career, around the time he was 30, he either feigned madness or went mad, attempted suicide 9 times, survived each. 1263
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 16/11/2024自我嘲弄的三种变奏 Three variations on self-parody #china #history #calligraphy #semicursive #selfparody #variation #art #selfportrait #mock #makefun 092
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 11/11/2024I spent the majority of Saturday grinding ink. By the afternoon I had 200 mls of ink. 040
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Watcing Amongst white clouds about Buddhist monks on Zhongnan mountains. Absolutely breathtaking. Here's the link to it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRMX... 071
墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Hello, BlueSky. Hopefully you're a nicer place than X. Calligraphy is 青天墨花 "Blue sky and ink flowers" in cursive and seal scripts. Seal stamp is 无事此坐 "sitting here with nothing to do". 0274
