Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If anyone is at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend, stop by and say hi. I’m at the dispersed holdings table, M6. 010
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I love New York Fashion Week. Just as fall is showing its teeth, runways are filled with spring looks. Are we coming or going? Do we spring forward or fall back? This was written under the influence of runway walks, Persephone’s descent, poet H. D.’s wartime writings, and Joseph Campbell.salrandolph.substack.comFashion PlateWhen NYFW meets Joseph Campbell and H. D. 000
Reposted by Sal RandolphJoy Amina Garnett @joyamina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Cover reveal!! THE BEE KINGDOM: A MEMOIR by Joy Amina Garnett Paperback / 366 pages Gaudy Boy, January 2027 “TRUE, STRANGE, FAMILIAR, AND FANTASTICAL.” —YOUSSEF RAKHA “A VIBRANT MEDITATION ON ART AND IDENTITY.” —DALE PECK 221
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A few days ago I had a sudden, unexpected, vivid longing to be standing in Walter de Maria’s The Lightning Field. Was it a wish to time-travel backwards into memory, or the intimation of a future I haven’t made any plans for? I don’t know! open.substack.com/pub/salrando...open.substack.comIn the Lightning FieldA story from The Uses of Art 050
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 11/09/2026End of summer, beginning of autumn; strong sun and cool air; loss and hopefulness. All of the distances in myself are pressed together. As a friend recently reminded me, a commonality or connection can be found between any two things, no matter how unlike they may seem at first glance.salrandolph.substack.comCathedral and MarigoldFor the last days of summer. 010
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Monkey Notes It’s a black monkey, the feeling I mean… 000
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026One of the pleasures of teaching in collaboration is engaging with the imagination of another writer and trying out their exercises. Here are some of the fragments and notes I wrote during the recent workshop I taught with the wonderful Sarah Kokernot. salrandolph.substack.com/p/the-seeing...salrandolph.substack.comThe Seeing HandEkphrastic experiments 010
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026RIP Wendell Berry 14210
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026As I’ve been preparing to teach a workshop on beholding and writing from art this evening, I’ve been revisiting Diana L. Eck’s beautiful small book, Darśan: Seeing the Divine Image in India.open.substack.comWays of Seeing: DarshanBeholding the sacred image. 020
Reposted by Sal RandolphPeter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I love how aspirational this title is: 1154
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We are meteors in a planet’s mouth. Our sky is a vigil, our course a chase, and our quarry a drop of light. -René Char (tr. Cid Corman) 1227
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I’m thrilled to be teaching a class next week with the amazing Sarah Kokernot, fiction writer, essayist, dharma friend, and author of the monthly, Your Wild and Radiant Mind. The class, More Than Seeing: Writing From Art, will meet online next week Thursday (August 27). I’d love to see you there!salrandolph.substack.comMore Than Seeing: Writing From ArtAn online workshop with Sarah Kokernot and Sal Randolph coming August 27 010
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’m back from this summer’s silent retreat, stepping into ordinary life again. Whoah! It was an intense time for for me, as you’ll see from this I gave at the retreat, in which I encounter myself in the form of a demon, in the form of a painting, and in the form of a hermit-nun.salrandolph.substack.comIf You See a DemonFinding yourself in art, finding yourself in the world of ten thousand things. 020
Reposted by Sal RandolphJose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026new workshop: The Art of Brevity: Prose Poems, Microfiction, Lean Verse, Minimalism. Reading Lydia Davis, Jorge Luis Borges, Elaine Equi, Charles Simic. Maxes at 15 participants. 033
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Yesterday I handed my new book manuscript to my editor. Tomorrow I leave for two weeks of silence at the Village Zendo’s annual summer retreat. Somehow it seems part of the same gesture!salrandolph.substack.comJust SittingInto the silence of deep summer. 350
Reposted by Sal RandolphMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Caravaggio, Basket of Fruit, c. 1599 www.ambrosiana.it/en/discover/... 4558
Reposted by Sal RandolphSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"Let us say that about one-fifth, then, of the papyri circulating at the peak were copies of the Iliad: so, between 200,000 and 500,000 Iliad rolls" — Netz, Reviel. “A Quantitative Model of Ancient Literary Culture.” Chapter 5. In Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture, 536-7 (CUP 2020) 414821
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Here’s another episode in my hot classics summer, in which I am visited by ghosts and cry out for the strength to wash away the deeds of the reigning Caesar.open.substack.comI Hear a Ghost, I See a SignAnother episode in my hot classics summer. 010
Reposted by Sal RandolphJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Over at @parisreview.bsky.social, they've published the intro @annvandermeer.bsky.social and I wrote for 5, the new César Aira omnibus from @newdirectionsky.bsky.social! A great author you should be reading! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07...theparisreview.orgCésar Aira’s Art of Not Editing by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeerJuly 9, 2026 – “A bird, for example, flew into Aira’s café while he was writing, and he worked it into the story.” 1404
Reposted by Sal RandolphH e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow." -- Virginia Woolf, The Waves #BookSky The Odyssey is much more than a tale of heroism. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...bbc.com'A story of sex, strategy and power': How women shape the plot of Homer's OdysseyThe protagonist of the epic poem is a heroic male – but the story is shaped by the stratagems and seductions of the women, nymphs and goddesses he meets along the way. 0388
Reposted by Sal RandolphAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The books are shelved as he left them, using Eco’s “good neighbor” policy, and this is said to have helped him make unexpected connections. It also seems to me to hint at connections he made or hoped to make in work he may have left finished, a map to ideas he was still having. A profound honor. 926548
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Welcome to my hot classics summer. Iʻve had Homer in my ears, and Virgil and Shakespeare. Such a confusion of glories, such poetry, such violence! Iʻm driving under the influence of all of them, but whenever Caesar comes, for me itʻs not only Julius who appears, but also Gertrude Stein.salrandolph.substack.comCaesar ComesAnother episode in my hot classics summer 052
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 01/07/20265.30 p.m. I sit on the front steps, watching clouds … white-breasted waterhen cries in the paddy … tulsi plants flourish … a pair of white butterflies 081
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 25/06/2026While Pride month is still throwing its glitter around, I thought I would celebrate with this queer “way of seeing” from the archive. It takes inspiration from a passage on disorientation in Sarah Ahmed’s wonderful book Queer Phenomenology.open.substack.comWays of Seeing: Queer DisorientationInspiration from Sara Ahmed, Eve Kosfsky Sedgwick, and José Esteban Muñoz. 010
Reposted by Sal RandolphLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The Iliad really has some brutally beautiful and detailed descriptions of battle wounds. Somehow I was not expecting like explanations of how the diaphragm got dragged out with a spear. 3391
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Tea Bowl / Joseon dynasty, Korea, 1700s for @tristan-moss.bsky.social 4245
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026This week I’m writing from the season of storms. salrandolph.substack.com/p/lightning-...salrandolph.substack.comLightning RaginiIn the season of storms 030
Reposted by Sal Randolphdesigngeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Alexander Calder, 1973 424226
Reposted by Sal RandolphEdward Winkleman @edwardwinkleman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026NYC: more evidence that JOY is the cure for what ails this broken country. 061
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This is what happens to you when you finally read the classics.open.substack.comOdysseyThis is a real voyage! 010
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I am away from home this week, spending some time near the sea. And you? Where do you find yourself? On land? On sea? Heading off towards adventure? Stranded on an island (metaphorical or otherwise)? Dwelling or abiding? Turning back home? salrandolph.substack.com/p/odysseysalrandolph.substack.comOdysseyThis is a real voyage! 000
Reposted by Sal RandolphNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026‘Recumbent Doe.’ Roman #sculpture (1st Century AD) #art 660085
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Barbara Hepworth / Perianth 1948-57 0347
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I wonder if there is a space to write about books you love that isn’t quite reviewing but something more like telling a tale or entering into the poem of a novel. I tried it out with Hiroko Oyamada’s The Holesalrandolph.substack.comThe HoleA book story 040
Reposted by Sal RandolphDr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Octopus vase! 🐙 This Mycenaean pottery jar, made more than 3000 years ago, is decorated with a fabulous image of an octopus - look at the swirling tentacles, & those big round eyes! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky 181102160
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This botanical tale began in reading Penelope Fitzgerald’s short, strange, brilliant novel, The Blue Flower. salrandolph.substack.com/p/the-blue-f...salrandolph.substack.comThe Blue FlowerA botanical story. 000
Reposted by Sal RandolphCarausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This Minoan jug is in the Kamares style, typified by its light on dark decoration. This piece sports a lovely stylised flower. It’s thought that only highly skilled craftsman could produce this ware so it was likely for elites only. 🕰️c2100BC-1700BC 🏛️Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷Wolfgang Sauber 7612119
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Cycladic Marble Head, c. 2500-2400 BC 317625
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Better still, get up and read while you are still sleeping. 010
Reposted by Sal Randolphkimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Forrest Bess / Untitled.111, n.d. for @lattaj.bsky.social 1121
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 21/05/2026What is the Source? To Remedios Varo, and possibly to Thomas Cole, the Source was an overflowing chalice set in a mysterious landscape. The Source is magical and inexhaustible (like a fairy-tale soup pot), hidden and yet waiting to be found, ready to be discovered not once but endlessly.salrandolph.substack.comLake Tear of the CloudsWhat is the Source? 020