iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You have been selected for a random Monday inspection. Please remain calm. 📷️ @carlbovisnature.bsky.social

A male Blackbird stands facing the camera on a grassy lawn, fixing the viewer with a steady, serious stare that makes it look as though it's waiting for an explanation.

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🥄 ✂️ 📻 'Do You Speak Design? The ‘Ekco’ of Wells Coates' @remydean.bsky.social tunes-in to the fluent design-language of Wells Coates who was a major influence on broadcast #design from household radios to studio #architecture 🔘 medium.com/signifier/do...

three black and white photographs: the distinctive curved facade of BBC Broadcasting House and two studio interiors designed by Wells Coates. A colour 'catalogue' photograph of his Ekco ‘AD65’ Radio in the best-selling brown Bakelite edition on its stool-like floor-stand.

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🪑 🐕 🎨 David Hockney’s Dog Days “…I realised I was #painting my best friends, Stanley & Boogie. The subject was not #dogs but my love of the little creatures.” @kimvertue.bsky.social on how Britain’s favourite artist found solace in canine inspiration Signifier 🐾 medium.com/signifier/da... #art

photograph showing the wall in David Hockney's studio with many paintings of his dogs hung on it - detail form a larger photograph used on the back cover of his 1998 book 'Dog Days'

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🔷 🟥 🖼️ 'The Power of Merz' @remydean.bsky.social explores the collages & architectural assemblages of Kurt Schwitters that have left left a lasting legacy & remain highly relevant in #art #GraphicDesign & pop #culture ✂️ medium.com/signifier/ku... #ArtHistory #illustration #history

two early abstract ‘Merz’ collages (c1920) by Kurt Schwitters - detailed analysis and descriptions in article via link in post

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight (Friday 25th) is Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival (中秋节) 🐇 Tsukimi (月見) 🎑 Guardian In Pictures 🥮 www.theguardian.com/culture/gall... ...& Harvest Moon, 1st Full Moon after equinox, will be at its fullest for UK at 17:49 BST on Saturday 26 September: BBC 🌕 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Rabbit lanterns, the largest holds a mooncake lantern, in Macau, China.
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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌝 祝福中秋佳节快乐 🐇 月圆人圆事事圆满 🥮 Hoping for an elegant, ethereal evening - so, it’s time for the perfect accompaniment & suitably celestial song + MV from 🧸 #咬人猫 🪷 #Yaorenmao aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat 🐾 playing the dual role of Chang'e & Jade Rabbit 月白 Moon White ⚪ youtu.be/PihiXh5VNbM?... #music #中秋节

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【咬人猫】月白 ❤️ MV [Yaorenmao Channel]

YouTube video by 咬人猫Yaorenmao

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🥮 in place of mooncakes we pitched-in & made a batch of scallion pancakes in honour of Ming Yi (Lu Yuxiao's character in 'Love in the Clouds') plus they are an acceptable lunar-looking & tasty substitute to get Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival underway 🌝 #food

three photographs by Remy Dean one of the uncooked rolled-up rolled of scallion stuffed dough - some straight out of the pan - one looking light golden and textured to resemble the harvest moon, presented on a plate with a simple art nouveau rim pattern

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

tonight's #Moelwyns sunset put on a good slow show, one of the nicest I've seen in a while, after an unseasonably warm & sunny day [pic 19:30] 🔴 #landscape #photography from #Eryri

landscape photograph by Remy Dean oof a mountain range silhouetted by a cloud-mottled sky catching the fiery orange of sunset

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

some interesting volumes to be found at the Getty Virtual Library: 700+ free to view/download #art related #books & reports from their searchable online collection (tick-box to select freely accessible titles) 📖 www.getty.edu/publications... #booksky

image showing thumbnails of a selection of book covers covering medieval art, amber, photography, vitrines, living materials in art, enamelling, constellations, Courbet, African masks...

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SOS (save our snails) "British zoos are setting up 'ark populations' of the glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa) one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion." "Beguiled by their cuteness" 🐌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #conservation #Wales #Cymru #kawaii

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Zoos help to save snail found in only one lake in Wales

Once prevalent across the UK, this mollusc is now only found in one lake in Wales.

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌧️ 🛤️ 🐇 'Rain, Steam & Speed' "Can our #art meet exponential technological developments such as quantum computers & AI?" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores Turner’s lasting impression of rapid change - an image of the Industrial Revolution’s sublime momentum 😶‍🌫️ medium.com/signifier/ra... #ArtHistory

detail of the locomotive's firebox frontage in the painting ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed, The Great Western Railway’ (1844) by Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RIP Yayoi Kusama ...here's @kimvertue.bsky.social on the relationship between the individual & the infinite through the work of Japan's globally renowned artist: 🍓 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #fashion #kawaii #ContemporaryArt #sculpture #Japan

‘Filled with the Brilliance of Life’ (2011) one of Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinity Mirror Rooms’ [images courtesy of Tate Galleries, presented by the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro 2015, accessioned 2019 © Yayoi Kusama]

Yayoi Kusama with bright orange hair, dressed in a gown of swirling yellow and black infront of her large signature polka dot pumpkin sculpture displayed in a yellow and black polka environment

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🪨⚒️🪽 'Jacob & his Angels' "the huge figures shocked many of Epstein’s contemporaries just as his first commission for the façade of the BMA Building had shocked Edwardian sensibilities in 1908" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Jacob Epstein's monumental #sculpture of Angels 👼 medium.com/signifier/ja...

two photographs: detail pf Epstein’s sculpture of Jacob and the Angel is a larger-than-life depiction of Jacob’s all-night struggle with an unknown assailant - the grappling figures are angular, monumental. The angel wings are almost abstract, retaining the shape of the original huge block of alabaster; large bronze statue of ‘St Michael’s Victory over the Devil’ by Jacob Epstein at Coventry Cathedral (detail)

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

designing our homes away from homeworld travelling light & building with what's there to provide habitats & workspaces plus privacy & comfort when everyone is remote & working from home... on the Moon or Mars DesignBoom 🚀 www.designboom.com/architecture... #design #space #science #architecture

artists impression of the 3D-printed lunar base designed by European Space Agency in collaboration with Foster + Partners

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"During the most recent Ice Age, when much of the British Isles were beneath a vast continental glacier, the depleted sea levels opened a walkable 'lost land bridge' between modern-day Pembrokeshire & the south-east tip of Ireland, around Rosslare..." BBC 🦣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Cave art discovery suggests first humans in Ireland came from Wales

During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#RemyReviews 'My Man Godfrey' (1936) • 90 years old today! "...will certainly appeal to fans of P.G Wodehouse’s & anyone who enjoys a top-hole classic screwball #comedy. But I don’t think its appeal is limited to nostalgia." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎬 medium.com/framerated/m...

four black and white film stills featuring William Powell and Carole Lombard in various moods - there is also a white goat.

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🌼 🌷 🏵️ 'Preserving Paradise' - how we can manipulate the environment to suit our aesthetics @kimvertue.bsky.social discusses Marc Quinn’s ‘The Garden’ & our eternal desire to capture & keep the essence of beauty. 🌻 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #flowers #landscape #sculpture

‘Wilder Shores of Desire’ by Marc Quinn [photographed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2018 by Remy Dean] is a large white sculpture of an orchid flower

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

lovely short [14.min] film about local artist Falcon Hildred whose drawings & watercolours document the area in & around Blaenau Ffestiniog... with cameo appearance from fellow #artist Carole Shearman (we often meet them & chat on dog walks) ▶️ youtu.be/f2m2BK0PcCg?... #art #hustory

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FALCON HILDRED 2026

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hello World!👋 This is the Bluesky debut of 'Found Worlds' a Medium Publication for diverse writers & readers. Let's share our journey of discovery as we explore global culture, arts, languages, travel tales, histories & media - a search for knowledge, beauty & connection. medium.com/found-worlds

Shintei - Chikyu Bankoku Hozu (Squared Map of all the Countries on the Globe) is a Japanese world map by Suido Nakajima made in 1853 (Kaei 6)

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#butterflies #conservation Explore what makes each British butterfly unique, pick your favourite & help them take flight 🦋 you can learn & vote @savebutterflies.bsky.social until 7 June 🌼 britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk #illustration by Richard Lewington⬇️ www.richardlewington.co.uk

beautiful illustration by Richard Lewington of a small tortoiseshell butterfly with its wings spread open - it is dusty grey-brown with striking orange and yellow patterns on the wings

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🪟 👗 📷 'Lady of Light' — a new fashion in photography @remydean.bsky.social on how Clementina, Lady Hawarden, forged her own genre to light the way for #fashion & fine #art #photography "In the mid-1800s, becoming a photographer was like joining a cult" 🪑 medium.com/signifier/la...

a photograph by Clementina, Lady Hawarden of one of her daughters side-sitting on the floor near a large window, resting her arms and head upon a chair and seemingly deep in thought

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🐛 🏵️ 🦋 'Merian’s Metamorphosis: Discovering the Cycle of Life' @kimvertue.bsky.social takes a closer look at the #art & #science of C17th illustrator & pioneering entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian 🐜 medium.com/signifier/me... #art #illustration #イラスト #biology #botany #entomology #ArtHistory

scientific illustrations showing the metamorphosis of the Garden Tiger moth, its plant host, and parasitic wasps, and life cycle of the Dark Tussock moth on its host plant, the dandelion (both published 1679)

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.

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Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk · 02/04/2026

Watching butterflies slows time - so why not take a break and notice their beauty 🦋 You can also let us know when you’ve seen a butterfly on the #SignsOfSpring survey: www.field-studies-council.org/signs-of-spr... In partnership with @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth

Two polaroid style photos - one of a holly blue butterfly, the other of a yellow brimstone butterfly

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🪨 🧚‍♀️ 🐕 🏰 🧁 🐉 🦄 🔥 🛩️ #ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel 📚 🆓 free to subscribe for a limited period Chapter 11 published today! "You’ve seen that face, haven’t you! No way was I going into the woods on my own – at night – to say, ‘Hi,’ to that creepy thing!" threerealms.substack.com/p/wanted

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THAT REALM, WHEREIN WE HUME DO DWELL: Chapter Eleven

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🐣 💎 ❄️ 'Cracking Spring Bling!' @kimvertue.bsky.social tracks the success of Alma Pihl & her exquisite Fabergé #jewellery #design that grew out of #folklore to rank among the most coveted & costly creations craved by collectors 🥚 medium.com/signifier/cr... #art #history #WomensHistoryMonth

description taken from article via link in post: "Alma Pihl’s Winter Egg was carved from rock crystal and decorated with platinum snowflake motifs and lines of tiny rose diamonds (4,500 in all), which glittered like trails of ice in sunlight. It was presented on a base of rock crystal carved to depict a block of melting ice. Inside the hinged egg was a small trellis basket made of platinum, containing wood anemones fashioned from quartz, gold, and garnet, with leaves of nephrite, nestled on a gold moss base..." more analysis and information in article via link in post

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🪞 ✂️ 🕴️ revisiting this insightful article by @kimvertue.bsky.social about Frida Kahlo & some of her revelatory self portraits that challenge feminine stereotypes for #WomensHistoryMonth 🪑 medium.com/signifier/al... #art #ArtHistory #painting #illustration #Mexico

detail of the painting ‘Self Portrait With Cropped Hair’ (1940) by Frida Kahlo shows the subject seated and wearing a men's grey suit - details description and analysis in article via link in post

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

RIP Len Deighton - a great author & chef here's an archival interview from 2014 when he spoke to @kimvertue.bsky.social for our sister publication 'The Scrawl' 🖋️ medium.com/the-scrawl/l... #BookSky #writer #writing #fiction #movies

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Len Deighton — In Spy Ring Writer

Len Deighton talks with Kim Vertue about his long and varied writing career.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Rakiura is such a good mother - still compulsive viewing, especially on #MothersDay (UK)💕

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

'A Romance of the Little Forest' 两个人的小森林 (2022) is a feel-good, silly, cute, will-they-won't-they romcom. Esther Yu as a beauty-vlogger & Vin Zhang as a botany professor. Took a few episodes to settle into, now deeply immersed as regular ‘comfort food’ viewing. on Viki: www.viki.com/tv/38805c-a-...

four film stills: Esther Yu Shu Xin (虞书欣) wearing a white dress with red polka and trim with a very large floppy brimmed sunhat; Nicky Li Jia Qi (厉嘉琪) in a lace-trimmed pale blue top looking sideways as if a little baffled or thoughtful; Vin Zhang (张彬彬) studies a feathery-leafed plant while Esther Yu seems to be studying him; and they look at each other closely, she seems surprised at his sudden attention.

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"largely overlooked since her death, a major retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in 2023 helped to place Richier centre stage once more & acknowledge her #art" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Germaine Richier’s Hybrid Beauty & the human form in extremis ✝️ medium.com/signifier/ge... #WomensHistoryMonth

‘The Ant / la fourmi’ (1953) and ‘Water / l’eau’ (both 1953) - two sculptures in blackened bronze by Germaine Richier - left is a figure that suggests both ant and woman, seemingly weaving a cat's cradle with thread; right is a seated female form that morphs into an amphora form at the shoulders.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

currently watching the rewarding Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest + fluff-lump chick! 🪶 www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2... #birds

frame from the live cam showing an adult bird tending its chick - black and white night-vision image

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🌹 🌷 🌺 'Mother of the American Modern' No one painted flowers quite like Georgia O’Keeffe. @kimvertue.bsky.social looks at some of the artist's early blooms & "a totally new approach to still life, one that merged realist elements with abstraction" 🌼 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #painting

brightly coloured painting of ‘Red Canna’ (1924) by Georgia O’Keeffe in which the heart of the flower fills the canvas and looks like fire

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

👩‍🍼 🎨 🖌️ 'This Woman’s Work' Paintings by Berthe Morisot now command some of the highest prices at auction of any woman #artist, but @kimvertue.bsky.social discovers that it wasn’t always this way… 🖼️ medium.com/signifier/th... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history #WomensHistoryMonth

detail, of a mother looking at a baby in a veiled crib, from ‘The Cradle’ (1872) a painting by Berthe Morisot

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#RemyReviews 'Forbidden Planet' (1956) • 70 Years Later looking back on the development & legacy of the Shakespearean #scifi classic that brought the Golden Age to the screen & changed everything, maybe inspiring #StarTrek my retro #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🛸 medium.com/framerated/f...

four film stills: United Planets Starship C-57D preparing to land on Altair IV in ‘Forbidden Planet’; Jack Kelly as Farman, blaster in hand, Warren Stevens as “Doc” Ostrow, Leslie Nielsen as Commander Adams, all wearing grey military style uniforms; Leslie Nielsen again talking to Walter Pidgeon as Dr Morbius with Robby the Robot and Anne Francis as Altaira Morbius wearing a mini-dress in the background in a Modernist interior; a marvellous matte painting of the vast alien machinery of the Krell with three tiny figures walking past a row of glowing spheres along a long platform.

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Red Sparrow @redsparrow.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📚 📖 🐦 for #WorldBookDay listen to Red Sparrow Writer Remy Dean re-tell a traditional #FairyTale from the #folklore of #Wales 🐕 it features #fairies🧚 & their magical #dogs 🐶 watch the video of @remydean.bsky.social reading from the epic #fantasy novel #ThisThatAndTheOther ⬇️

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

#RemyReviews John Boorman's excellent 'Excalibur' (1981) my #movie #review of the mythic epic masterpiece remastered @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K #Bluray & it's never looked better! "For it is the doom of men that they forget." @framerated.co.uk 🐲 medium.com/framerated/e...

four film stills: Nigel Terry as King Arthur with his knights behind him under a red banner; Nicol Williamson as Merlin wearing his distinctive silver helmet and holding his staff, topped by twin silver snakes; an ethereal vision of a caped king; Helen Mirren as Morgana sprinkles glitter over Robert Addie as Mordred, clad in golden armour.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🐇 🐇 🐇 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! It's a rainy St. David's Day in #Eryri but here's some golden sunshine on our local #Moelwyns woodlands with hope for a brighter future for all🍻

landscape photograph by Remy Dean of a wooded slope, the leafless branches catching some low golden sunlight

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

📐 ✏️ 🦋 the #mathematics & #architecture of natural beauty - an exploration of the Platonian ideal by #artist Rafael Araujo #interview & #art showcase via Autumn Salon: 🐚 www.theautumnsalon.com/aswritings/i...

two illustrations by Rafael Araujo applying 'golden section' maths to butterflies in flight and a seashell - the forms are surrounded and intersected by a complex gid of lines and curves based on architectural approaches to form

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

'Leonardo da Vinci, the Way of Water' "water fascinated Leonardo & it’s believed his first #drawing was of water" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores how aesthetics & mechanics flow together in the work of the great Renaissance #artist who was Master of Water for Florence 💦 medium.com/signifier/le...

Leonardo da Vinci's intricate drawing of a cataclysmic deluge swirling over broken buildings (c.1518)

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

'What the Impressionists Saw' - the #art of making the private public & the unremarkable remarkable @kimvertue.bsky.social selects three #paintings of women to explore the interconnectivity & shared influences of the Impressionists 🎨 medium.com/signifier/wh...

details from the three paintings of women done in different styles as described and discussed in article via link in post

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Kaguya & Tsukimi Yachiyo 🌼 'Ray' from 'Cosmic Princess Kaguya!' MV cleverly continues a few core story threads 🐙 read my #anime #movie #review @framerated.co.uk ❣️ medium.com/framerated/c... かぐや (夏吉ゆうこ) x 月見ヤチヨ (早見沙織) #超かぐや姫 ❗ youtu.be/356MRZ6P5h0?... #アニメ #music #JPop

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【Official MV】ray 超かぐや姫！Version / かぐや (cv.夏吉ゆうこ)、月見ヤチヨ (cv.早見沙織) from #超かぐや姫！

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🌿 🌼 🍀 "Have you ever sat in the grass of a summer meadow, perhaps as a child, to make a daisy chain, or to examine a cricket singing? Only to be mesmerised by the many plants & flowers flourishing together at your feet?" 🌱 medium.com/signifier/to... #art #ArtHistory #botany #illustration

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To See the World in Dürer’s Great Piece of Turf

Celebrating the small, tangible things in our everyday world with Dürer and considering why we still connect with his vision.

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Selected #art writing from the Signifier team: transgressive stained glass, mothers' love, still life, living life long, ghosts, #illustration, collage, #kawaii culture & Remy on Remy + more! Our Winter #Solstice 2025 🎄 Newsletter has dispatched! Are you Signified? medium.com/signifier/a-...

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A Yuletide Writer Round-up

Welcome to Your Winter Solstice Special Edition of Signified

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

👁️ 👁️ 👁️ standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny) #landscape #photography from #Eryri #Moelwyns #folklore

photograph by Remy Dean of a section of a birch tree trunk with knot marks that look like four eyes looking out in different directions

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

“Creatures” #art by Zel Cariad was our December 2023 #exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery : 6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie... #ContemporaryArt #animals #folklore #illustration #イラスト

Three illustrations of Velvet Worms colourful Pop Art in style while remaining biologically accurate. "Solórzano's velvet worm, Mongeperipatus solorzanoi (the pink one) is one of the biggest velvet worms, growing to around 22 cm long. Other species are much smaller, about 5cm long on average, but some species are even smaller. Eoperipatus totoro (the brown one) was named after the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. The first specimen was caught in 2007. The team that found it wanted to name it after Totoro because the velvet worm's many-legged cuteness reminded them of the Catbus in the film. So far Eoperipatus totoro is the only velvet worm described from Vietnam. The species can grow to be up to 6cm long. The New Zealand Peripatus, Peripatoides novaezealandiae (blue one) gets its name from the word 'peripatetic' meaning 'wandering'. The Māori name for velvet worm has a similar meaning - ngaokeoke comes from the word 'ngaoki' meaning 'to crawl'. This particular species is about 10cm." more in article via link in post.

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