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James Ormiston

@ondine22.bsky.social
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Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.

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Silkworm @silkworm0.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Erotic City Digital collage
Digital collage of cityscape. Two nude male figures stand in foreground with oversized painted nails for masks. A hooden horse stands in left foreground. In the background stand towers, one crowned with circular sign displaying a closeup of Madonna snogging in the 80s.
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Silkworm @silkworm0.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Moontit Digital collage
Surrealist assemblage of mannequin head with oversized vinyl nail mask and bird wing headpiece. Abstracted body parts cluster around it.
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Silkworm @silkworm0.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Grotto
Collage of nude man standing in front of yellow shower curtain, with flowers, fungus and vegetation surrounding.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I see you in everyone Collage
Collage of nude male figure with shell headpiece standing in front of an abstract scene. Behind him to the right a surrealist figure composed of a leather glove with legs holds an antique globe partially open in its spherical case.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
“Stone Girl” by John Wieners
A simple poem
About love is what I want
To write:   words
Without mystery, but
Shoulders touching
In a slow song,
                            Watching the
Words come out,
                            Like a snake
From its box, it winds
About our shoulders and
               Neck like a noose.
We wait on the bed
                            Scaffold
                                     To drop
Into its pit and hang
                       Hung up there.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
that perfect joy. John Wieners
Let the heart's pain slack off
To that secret place we go to in time
Without rhyme's safety to assure us,
All gift is, that perfect joy. Some sign.
Smoke rising from parapets of glass.

No book I turn to but I hear
An inner voice so dear say
"Pass over the commands today; forget
What is allowed, and what is not.
What youth has got. The bizarre symptoms
Of yesterday. The past equal to now."

No words here fit for print, no worlds
either disclose themselves, just debris
solid enough to erect a wall against
all mentioned above; open only like
doors to love.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
John Wieners
WIENERS

I hear the sound of rushing waters.

I see planets drifting around in great blobs, through immense spaces

I dont want to see any more of this world. I close
my eyes;       blue light!
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Cecil Collins, Figure, 1958 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
date inscribed
Presented by Elisabeth and Cecil Collins 1979
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Piglet and totem
Collage with flower-phallus totem crowned by a wasp, emerging from pink high-heeled shoe. Figure standing by, partially constructed from a latex fetish pink pig suit.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Rites of Spring Collage
Digital collage featuring frog latex fetish figure, anthropomorphised four-leaf clover and vintage hunk.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Bunny Collage made this Easter, featuring Bette Davis smoking & hen cloaca.
Collage featuring Bette Davis smoking and diagrams of hen cloaca.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
From Invisible Cities collage series
Collage of a cityscape. Abstract elements juxtaposed with photographs of architectural/sculptural details.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Baroque Queen Pen & ink plus digital colour
Surreal Crystalline bust of woman constructed from baroque gemsSurreal Crystalline bust of woman constructed from baroque gems
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jordiETE @jordiete.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
🖼️ Balkan Folk Song No.3 🎨 Katalin Ladik 🏛️ + info: www.moma.org/collection/works/284264
Balkan Folk Song No.3
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Tree Calendar (fragment) Drawing & digital collage
Abstract digital collage of treelike silhouettes against successive highly saturated colour discs of neon pink, orange and lime green.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Poppy Goddess Drawing & digital collage
Drawing of anthropomorphic poppy
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“Where the compassionate live with the compassionate” Palestinian singer Ahmed Abu Taymia killed by the IOF #Gaza #Palestine youtube.com/shorts/L7LuV...
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Palestinian singer, Ahmed Abu Taymia, has been killed by the IOF. #gaza #palestine #shorts
YouTube video by Wear The Peace
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The epiphany of encountering a new-to-me Ithell Colquhoun artwork.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I reached for the arm which was less than one micron long but weighed more than Saturn and time stood still I knew I had to escape but every time I tried to flee, the record was in front of me youtu.be/Mkg1OjgqTck?...
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The Black Hit Of Space (2003 Digital Remaster)
YouTube video by The Human League - Topic
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight. When true simplicity is gain'd on.soundcloud.com/y8WaxPqfuu1T...
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Simple Gifts No. 2 (feat. Steve Katona)
Listen to Simple Gifts No. 2 (feat. Steve Katona) by Poser #np on #SoundCloud
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Ever decreasing circles
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
You started it @rivaldealer26.bsky.social by summoning up Neko Case again for me, a joy untold! 💚
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Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social · 10/01/2021
"Medieval writers thought honey was a form of weather," from the preface of Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan's Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Absolute thunder from Tbilisi. The Shit & Shine remix is every bit as filthy as one would hope too 🔥 on.soundcloud.com/zZAVnTa7CAjP...
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Zesknel - Fly (with conviction) EP 12'' [SNIPPETS] [PRE-ORDER]
Zesknel - Fly (with conviction) EP 12'' w&p by Zesknel Remix by Shit and Shine Distribution: Clone Mastering: Noel Summerville [3345 Mastering] Art and Design: Tengiz Begoidze Tbilisi, Georgia
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Repost with a cool song that’s under two minutes. youtu.be/KglJfGEMTPg?...
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Kleiner Krieger
YouTube video by Popol Vuh - Topic
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
An exuberant call to arms from these French anarchopunks in 1989, sadly just as needed now, if not more so. The incitement to solidarity against fascism and racism is truly joyous. youtu.be/FpH0gre8AQw?...
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Bérurier noir - Porcherie live 1989
YouTube video by punkmusiclovers
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M. Geddes Gengras @m-geddes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
For me it’s this small piece I ripped from the wall of The Black Ark and stuck in my back pocket in 2013. Has lived in my studio since, often travels with me to shows, I can always look at it and ask “what would Scratch do?” The energy coming off this thing is insane, my most precious possession.
a small chunk of concrete with pebbles imbedded inside it.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Whoopsie, made a oopsie The flow, the styling, the choreography….. just immaculate!
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Propulsive beats pound with libidinal insistence and cum pyrotechnically in acid technicolour 🎆🎆🎆🎆 youtu.be/oNYdtK07UoQ?...
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SHXCXCHCXSH - ttt!!!!! [NE106]
YouTube video by Acidalia
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
All I want for Christmas is a set of stylish knee protections looking like lions.
Probedruck von Hans Burgkmair d.Ä., um 1511, gezeigt wird Hektor. Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, Graph Burgkmair 6, Blatt 26r.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
@bsky.app bumping up the request for you to account for why people in #Gaza are unable to shift from toxic X and create profiles on Bluesky. We’re decamping from Musk’s cesspit to in the hope of a more equitable platform here, but we need you to pull your weight now on these ethics.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Tell us your birth year by sharing the cover of an album that was released the year you were born.
Artwork for Never For Ever by Kate Bush. An illustration of Kate with a plethora of animals flying out from under her skirt.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Sliding towards the solstice - midwinter sunrise with Belasko on Wanstead Flats
Black dog wearing striped jumper standing on heathland in front of a pair of tower blocks. Sunrise.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This one courtesy of Jack Rollo’s early bird show on NTS. Let’s indeed travel light. youtu.be/gIxS-35tE50?...
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Let's Travel Light
YouTube video by Slapp Happy - Topic
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Probably my favourite day of ‘24, immersed in sublime wilderness with dearest friends.
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The gay / his diva
Clearly homosexual man in eastend greasy spoon cafe after devouring fry-upPJ Harvey in pink catsuit
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“International Grotto Directory” -The Grotto, Wanstead Park
Ruins of an eighteenth century grotto in Wanstead Park, East London
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Etel Adnan, Untitled, 1965/1966 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund (both by exchange)
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
tenebreaudio.bandcamp.com/album/basic-... Tectonic plates grinding for the dancefloor. Love Tenebre’s chthonic textures.
tenebreaudio.bandcamp.com
Basic Shapes, by TÉNÈBRE
5 track album
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
on.soundcloud.com/rjvMSQcJZqNS... Walking through the North Kent Downs to Coldrum Long Barrow feeling all primal and druidic listening to some nice 90s acid wormhole fare 🪱🕳️🧠👂
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[PREMIERE] Synergy - Governed by Rhythm | Seven Hills [2023]
@seven-hills-records It's been nearly 2 years since our last reissue comp, so we're pleased to announce SHRR06: Seven Hills Presents Governed By Rhythm 94 - 97! We're taking another wild excursion in
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James Ormiston @ondine22.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Coldrum Long Barrow
Neolithic long barrow, ColdrumColdrum Neolithic long barrow
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
all those who have pierced us with joy James Broughton
CANTICLE


Open your doors   Open my windows
I dwell in you and you dwell in me
We are a duplex of comradely miracles
We are a house as large as mankind

Those we have sat lovingly beside
those we have ached for or laughed with
all those who have pierced us with joy
become residents of our habitation

Who needs to have it explained?
Who needs to have it defended?
This is an alleluia of life
This is the humming of humansong
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