http://diannasettles.website/latest daily 0.75 2024-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1665518048199-H76RTFGNFU5MJ42ZYK74/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older All we ever wanted was everything (looting — immediate communization — shares no common ground with the world of the commodity. And yet, it expresses something abyssal within that world: the possibility that everything could be free.) 2022 24”x32” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645917479084-8UPF0B5FP3HKDNHS996V/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older The way out is across, in ardor (That Spring when the deer who had been ravaging the field was hit by a car one morning and the farmers came to weed the field and found her in the road, still warm) 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1665518048199-H76RTFGNFU5MJ42ZYK74/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older All we ever wanted was everything (looting — immediate communization — shares no common ground with the world of the commodity. And yet, it expresses something abyssal within that world: the possibility that everything could be free.) 2022 24”x32” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881732274-IJ74ZABFOZAJNOH80UBL/Dianna-Settles-destructedangels.jpg 2021 and older To become destructed angels And as destructed open to all activities against the law and financial institutions (the fireflies are waiting), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930865685-TI5LZ11WQJX0XYBZD7SV/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older We must exist more and heavier // we are learning discipline everyday, Bench pressing, jiu-jitsu training, training for our future study, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930807823-TFJJKIIN7JZY0H5UFMYL/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Steam like Stinging Nettles, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645917569490-1NOTZ0E2EJ3IPMEZ9FRP/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older “In My Room” by The Beach Boys (A liberation from all speculation And an awareness that metaphysics is a consequence of not feeling very well.) 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645919650984-72SIF9SQBYQUIN4ZADA1/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Construction for the Endless Séance (no exile where we will not hear ‘welcome home’), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881782196-HOFPZXZXE3S5CEL2XQWR/Dianna-Settles-self.jpg 2021 and older Self-portrait after Elin Danielson-Gambogi’s ‘After Breakfast’ 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881769545-VBPWR0TBY10SDH5EM1DI/Dianna-Settles-allthingsaredear.jpg 2021 and older All Things Are Dear That Disappear (Yoon, A Joint, Hainanese Chicken), 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624931095019-8UGJS21TJI54SA6ZQQ9V/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Deep stretching, deep pulling, deep sweating, deep breathing (a feeling that at moments hinted at rivers running backwards), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645918523889-IMG0EX5GUZWBARX3KJIQ/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older The only master favorable to us is Lightning who sometimes illuminates us and sometimes cleaves us. (No sympathy to those swimmers who think that they should be the only ones), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881782606-VT8Z2XA96GC8EE4O3IJD/Dianna-Settles-summer.jpg 2021 and older Summer Is Not All (the chickens try to eat embroidered butterflies off garments and we follow their cue to pursue our wants, our whims, our hungers) 2020 30” X 24” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930319391-RQGSPDVYDYVG9Q0CPVJ8/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older The warm and hot baths’ insistence on our porosity: confine your measure to the boundary of the sky (water is the only one who knows what has always been), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624931222595-C2UES98HUQ8UH1550SMR/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Nothing is not borrowed & hunger doesn’t compromise together we made this place together we can leave it, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645916809039-WIRPBTKA1EX1BEQE87YS/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Co-regulating in the city without love; “When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities”, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881730140-XYQDSNIKANWHE14N2A6V/Dianna-Settles-ask.jpg 2021 and older Remember you can have what you ask for, ask for everything (free oranges taste sweetest), 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645919925642-MNOKODEFAY864PDJIUP7/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Where will you find stars? (Wet wood makes smoke), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881734192-FSPQ0MH59T29V62Y9T06/Dianna-Settles-maythe5.jpg 2021 and older May the land grow green, May it swallow our mistakes (this year we won’t dig the trenches so deep), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881783897-QGGODLIV6FS41NQ5X5YD/Dianna-Settles-theycametoeat.jpg 2021 and older They came to eat the moon again (does anyone feel like cooking this week?), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881730570-4UXHM85OL2DJ0QDW690S/Dianna-Settles-amidst.jpg 2021 and older Amidst the trees (Malik), 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614881731441-ZVSZAX0F3G6GJRC0EVG3/Dianna-Settles-curtainedsun.jpg 2021 and older In the curtained sun (Lauren, Faye, Tika), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614884519303-K3OIFSNCO1AIQLKLU5UN/No+Accidents%2C+No+Miracles.jpg 2021 and older No Accidents, No Miracles (Choji Plant), 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579291507033-NU045TEPHPL8D14JSTV1/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Yoonhwa, Chanel, and Onyew Outside Videodrome, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930748655-JNQPG6EKO75U829SGPM3/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older That Summer Feeling, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614882003786-7A2ZHO84JMWYXQRWZLQ3/Infinity+Doesn%27t+Interest+Me.jpg 2021 and older Infinity doesn’t interest me, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614882317117-AH5AVRTOTINJ87RABQ54/venusvessel.jpg 2021 and older Venus Vessel, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1614971978394-B35GWVYSYWFJ05Y9ZHSV/Dianna-Settles-wereturn.jpg 2021 and older We Return As Often As Leaves, As Numerous As Grass (the second snake we pulled out of the chicken coop when Meg was in town), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579295420981-1BM6CMLN4ZRUHQOKO3OI/99flowers.9529.jpg 2021 and older BURGER JOY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1619745932420-F2RCIGYN3LROBGYWDSRY/selfwithlongevity.jpg 2021 and older Self-portrait with Longevity, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930535849-YRAXRG79JL3VA46DM7WM/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older May our only struggle once again be the ultimate struggle within our own mind/heart The struggle to open further Open to all humans To all beings To all that is All that can be, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930676304-L97U6AG5T40F0N8IOEVD/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Sometimes it feels like it is over and it’s not. Sometimes it feels like it has just begun and it’s over. 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624930962509-1QB9L4DKDDAZZLZLRBCV/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Yoon in Spicy-Not-Spicy’s Bedroom, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1624931036309-LLTHJD6NOEPWC4NVIBPG/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Defend the Forest, Defeat the Police, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645915979808-S77SAV72KL7NRGR50DG7/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Snake Season, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645916673175-G1MNHQJNLH065WWRIQJN/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older It’s a good idea to have good, working transportation (learn all that you can and share what you learn), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645916631160-DY0HTRNGO3KMRFLTWNTQ/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Thunder storm in the land of summer, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1665520111712-IVNYPIA32FTMAEW6T8UF/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older On the stroll of the stolen life (ripe for the taking), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1535149781331-0X6ZLRK4D970I2O3W388/99flowers.9517.jpg 2021 and older CROWN OF THORNS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1645919506632-QZKCETG2R2PQN5L0U9ZY/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Until our most fantastic demands are met, fantasy will be at war with society, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1665520245461-PYFST0481RVLS3UPDP1E/image-asset.jpeg 2021 and older Vertical ray of the sun (a head start on Spring), 2021 http://diannasettles.website/murals daily 0.75 2020-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311199788-HE2QZZPXNYL8JO20VNC5/image-asset.jpeg Murals To Our Friends | À Nos Amis, 10eme Arrondissement, Paris, France July 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311199788-HE2QZZPXNYL8JO20VNC5/image-asset.jpeg Murals To Our Friends | À Nos Amis, 10eme Arrondissement, Paris, France July 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311483833-C1C9WLYLG2XVXL3DK6EO/Dianna+Settles3__%C2%A9AgathaeMontecinos.jpg Murals To Our Friends | À Nos Amis, 10eme Arrondissement, Paris, France July 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311520975-Y3GX1GWBZZQQZ0FHUAEG/Dianna+Settles2__%C2%A9AgathaeMontecinos.jpg Murals To Our Friends | À Nos Amis, 10eme Arrondissement, Paris, France July 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311608162-GKQV74B05SJWG5MN46MY/IMG-9515.jpg Murals To Our Friends | À Nos Amis, 10eme Arrondissement, Paris, France July 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311636992-AJLI4USR08KGVRKUDGNA/IMG_0658.JPG Murals Braddock, Pennsylvania September 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579311736651-WYDLGJW5HC55SVLTV8EJ/IMG_0985.JPG Murals Braddock mural (progress shot) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579312271242-VLF9ES2OERFITJAGCEO5/IMG_0990.JPG Murals Braddock mural (progress shot) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579312170443-9XLKZAUPVADOPBA9IVN1/IMG_2022.JPG Murals Here to Stay, Buford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia August 2017 (progress shot) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1579312226006-VAI09AFNZ70MP0R4I5CK/IMG_2023.JPG Murals Here to Stay, Buford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia August 2017 (progress shot) http://diannasettles.website/drawings daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728059724304-E114D4H6THCQ34N0KM34/drawing1111.jpg Drawings romano bean season, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728059724304-E114D4H6THCQ34N0KM34/drawing1111.jpg Drawings romano bean season, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728059743938-9NGXI5VXHURBXF76S0N8/drawingsformarch.jpg Drawings fig season, 2022 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/604117997ae35f02c09db9c9/604126395b97b50af76388b0/1728067029746/ Drawings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728063615562-LYEVJTK2CKI7AAAZ9D6E/Scan.jpg Drawings lotus flower harvest, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728063748544-Q5ERXHEORXD5GNR4CRV2/Scan+1.jpeg Drawings sketchbook, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728066079762-6SW4VC7R1YI7J872NHQL/marchdrawings+1.jpg Drawings shearing season, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728066246515-HFBYCNPPWUIXUP7TAFC5/marchdrawings+3.jpg Drawings weaving study, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728066258882-DXZ6EQTSRJ12J3ZHGBIP/marchdrawings+4.jpg Drawings spinning study, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728066522281-16WE62B9JKRAXI2Y9187/highdrawing.png Drawings Left to Themselves, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728066710221-1XKGKWX4O6CQREN7G2AR/highdrawing1.png Drawings A Play for Voices, Turn your body A-round, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728066851558-809KTK8MYEQ18WWOA1GV/highdrawing2.png Drawings Full Moon Madness, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728065083131-I6TJQ8U3YSI6WKOLG4Z5/pastels5.jpg Drawings pastel study, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728065164185-QGWSCW3VCT9SDR0418S4/pastels6.jpg Drawings pastel study, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728065178559-3UXEYGLTIVE4UY7YOTJ4/pastels7.jpg Drawings pastel study, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728065206737-Z4033M5Y11YL1CYCH4GV/pastels1.jpg Drawings pastel study, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728065251317-CLFXXHF66Q4NHP3JDLFA/pastels2.jpg Drawings pastel study, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728065191063-KFO0CDAUWKVEW3W6I1ZH/pastels3.jpg Drawings pastel study, 2024 http://diannasettles.website/2024 daily 0.75 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820004966-GJGLMTDHPY29PAAWLHZE/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI033.jpg 2024 Again we're going to begin all of us against the great defeat of the world (blood from a stone), 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820004966-GJGLMTDHPY29PAAWLHZE/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI033.jpg 2024 Again we're going to begin all of us against the great defeat of the world (blood from a stone), 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820025805-X0KCQINGLUV83NLCE1ZJ/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI036.jpg 2024 The earth drank the juice, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820038261-1MY00X4M4KRK5DCZ52YB/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI034.jpg 2024 Hard, ungrateful, hostile and holy. Carving rock with wind, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820057473-TLMDTZCMWF9FLS0EPGE4/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI031.jpg 2024 Little compañeros who never end or who burn like fire in the memory again and again and again, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820070205-SZT5VWHXIL5THYD9YPEJ/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI037.jpg 2024 Awaiting the madder and crocus, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820083226-KF94ACQKFCRPUK6FNGU1/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI035.jpg 2024 A life as a stable (the Living are on their way. The Dead only have come home between heaven and earth, a traveler's lodge), 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820097377-EER6IGG5XK5NL22XLGP4/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI032.jpg 2024 Self annihilation alongside the rubble, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727820110929-AK3UEXQZAILTX3PIINBG/Dianna+Settles+SETTDI030.jpg 2024 In folding and being folded by the suns, the struggles, the Springs, 2024 http://diannasettles.website/2023 daily 0.75 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822597421-F8OLDJ0IMVO75L04TJ26/3B7A5701.JPG 2023 Good is the reckoning that uses no tallies and does no counting, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822597421-F8OLDJ0IMVO75L04TJ26/3B7A5701.JPG 2023 Good is the reckoning that uses no tallies and does no counting, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822629556-DUVOQUT9WNFIXKL7SRM3/3B7A5695.JPG 2023 Garden World Research Center, Atlanta dispatch, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822167542-BZOBLDLEQV7GSL20VYMU/3B7A5704.JPG 2023 How the world this summer was full of flowers. The fireflies are waiting, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982344661-LZJ2VIMW7TVO5ZSCUBG4/99flowersopen.png 2023 99 flowers open like an open head (abundancing together, the living altar), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822570194-TDLRAET3BP7908MY3LZQ/DS%2B064.jpg 2023 Beginning the Endless Séance, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822188298-8ERZWMU3EY1F8TKKG0YV/3B7A5707.JPG 2023 And when the time for the breaking of the law is here, be sure it is to take place in the matrix of our everyday thoughts and fantasies, our wonderment at how we got from there to here. (The black and green snake fights the blue one), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822211923-PCBANYRY4FR55JMHNLHF/3B7A5705.JPG 2023 Like a bed of tulips in the sun, the haymakers at work, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822591239-EPLQL9VADH6VHGEDHIGB/3B7A5703.JPG 2023 Cherishing what you have means devotion to it without delay, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822661579-UO4MEOJK1HC8XJL17I4U/3B7A5687.JPG 2023 The little plants come toward me and the say, ‘you, we are aware, can do nothing for us', 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727981946801-35MOXUWFYDICXX8301IE/softsounds.png 2023 Soft sounds from another planet (if you control the head, you control the body), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822620934-PKF0AFN0NO5C77XY3457/3B7A5696.JPG 2023 If these are omens let us pray to bend them. Shorn and sure, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822604006-PG15OZYQ068767KKV2RY/3B7A5700.JPG 2023 Old wisdoms, lively passions, nothing was missing. Not even heaven’s help, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822635795-N9NK1S8IL7HOGSS8TNPT/3B7A5693.JPG 2023 Meadows of flame leap. More light for the understory, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727980790747-0V0DM37TAOT5E2L6NBDZ/DS%2B039.jpg 2023 Dress life a flower, bring the Spring (March, April, Mae, Joon), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1729108736601-X3I2IQLD7THDWP7O8WLV/DS%2B041.jpg 2023 Standing in the Green Sound (In my mind I'm swiming towards you / Thighs hemmed by cold water), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727980897459-PJJ0KKF7TOK640F8CPXG/valleys.png 2023 Joining of the valleys, maybe Fire, maybe Earth, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822642277-RR2DM8G9SQTPQ9BVRQXS/3B7A5689.JPG 2023 The clouds sweat jade against a sweet hibiscus sky, a sigh heaves from all the small things on Earth, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822648494-GTHIZF70IXVMRF1T09X8/3B7A5691.JPG 2023 The school of joy is filled with tears and blood but also with eternity, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822654753-F2ABGTCC0ZWWCPCQDDMZ/3B7A5692.JPG 2023 Draw bow to shoot vulture. Closing the sparrow’s bridge, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727822254714-C1E9NGFYE9UN06HTGNBU/DS%2B063.jpg 2023 Peris in Livery presents The Gas Heart: the only and greatest fraud of the century in three acts, 2023 http://diannasettles.website/2022 daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982650737-0Z4SYJEJFDG0EPF9NR8V/DS+021.JPG 2022 Colorfast/fugitives (a vital knowing of the potential to shape, to change, to build, to play, to open the world to new worlds, new possibilities, newly knotting ourselves to our place and time), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982650737-0Z4SYJEJFDG0EPF9NR8V/DS+021.JPG 2022 Colorfast/fugitives (a vital knowing of the potential to shape, to change, to build, to play, to open the world to new worlds, new possibilities, newly knotting ourselves to our place and time), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982655959-HY14AVIAE3R9PH6AOM60/DS+025.JPG 2022 Giant shadow of a world becoming, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982661396-WQ76X630BLRLZZNCHOOA/DS+036.JPG 2022 Making new alterations to the old calendar, bringing back the holidays that demand rest from our laboroing, holidays for pleasure, holidays for praising the wind and the bees, for partaking in all of the ways that we are earthbound (we love our bread, we love our butter, but most of all we love each other), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982667940-V588Y2AU3GSVP5HMJ7S2/DS+024.JPG 2022 To go beyond resistance, we must position the territory within a becoming-world. This time, the wall built against our enemy will not be made of concrete, but of time itself. It is a world that possesses a fragmented geography. It is where we find our friends and even enemies to be fought. It is where we love and we find war, where we share and are free to make use of ourselves as much as we like. Finally, it is where we find the possibility of a crossroads in the path of history. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982674012-96EICIENWWJQEA1ELK5P/DS+023.JPG 2022 How do we follow after you? Cupping circles, culling rows, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982854962-L27HIWLZHZ6P91NXOFAA/DS+027.JPG 2022 How to make it last, how to share (apple season), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982877518-NGYKU13Q5NC4VBC41MXM/DS+014.JPG 2022 Gentle, insistent, we remember the way, our babes toddle barefoot thru the cities of the universe (first make soda from the flowers, then medicine from the berries, then cut the trees to the ground until next Spring), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728058440815-NXJQM01USQDS5WTO2WI6/loot.png 2022 All we ever wanted was everything (looting — immediate communization — shares no common ground with the world of the commodity. And yet, it expresses something abyssal within that world: the possibility that everything could be free.) 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728057972720-B32GFTWWB6P0CBK1DNPR/orangerie.png 2022 Composition is nothing more than the fruits of an unexpected meeting between separate worlds and the promise contained in the becoming commune of that meeting (the planters in the snow), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982904859-FAR07FSOXJGAQWPEIACF/DS+019.JPG 2022 Trawling through the scarred lands (us and the scotch broom), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982883283-OCB4LF7RWBW7UJAT1QU6/DS+018.JPG 2022 All of the plants, animals, minerals outside speak the same way too, or else we wouldn’t be in the same world together, you know., 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982922168-XZE2XU2QAQY74QNBLC1P/DS+022.JPG 2022 The shared meal, by repeating the gesture that allows our bodies to regenerate – here, collectively – shows that one aspect of redemption lies in the communism of renewing bodies and spirits., 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727982949371-AT7BZK1T239CO2XIODNJ/DS+029.JPG 2022 Girl 1, Squirrel 0, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1727983084124-1ZNH50AUMIT04ARE5RBS/DS+026.JPG 2022 All things sing of a possible haven, is it not this? —– it is., 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728058113855-H6L0LBOAPOEBV7JV6VIJ/cinematheque.png 2022 Hi-Lo Cinémathèque During the George Floyd Rebellion (sites of affection and encounter become a series of sentimental interruptions into the urban continuum, oases dispersed across the metropolis, barricades that are erected against the advancing enemy, waiting for the chance to trigger an offensive against our gradual loss of a world disfigured by economy.) 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728058230166-IYU68TR3P9IUN2W7K6MO/karaoke.png 2022 An attempt to free ourselves from the condition of listener and viewer to which culture and politics have accustomed us (Onyew and Jordan's duet), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728058339838-YR1AX6KZ478RS79UYUJG/scratcherden.png 2022 Stuffed, stuck, and struck with luck, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1728058569531-Z1M04WS5U3411PJKSWSG/shrine.png 2022 As I promised you, I keep my legs strong and live upright as the stem of a flower, 2022 http://diannasettles.website/2025 daily 1.0 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166726272-B63PJHSY96J8XM6A3MEO/IMG_9267.JPG 2025 Righting the world like a flower watered, making things comprehensible. With nothing in focus, look for light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166726272-B63PJHSY96J8XM6A3MEO/IMG_9267.JPG 2025 Righting the world like a flower watered, making things comprehensible. With nothing in focus, look for light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166019959-5IGQBV0YZW1IC8LA05Q5/DS+074.jpg 2025 Our work will be done when we can give these young ones a new world, a different world. I must be committed to the birth of that new world, which like every delivery will be painful and at the same time joyous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166055529-K6XF6V2L1FVP3KL4B9IK/DS+076.jpg 2025 Art purifies, through catharsis, what should be seized directly – life, We will no longer make objects / our art is life / our medium revolution / & in a world based on repression our only message is liberation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166094794-NR04EJHHRVL5ULTL5XC2/DS+077.jpg 2025 What’s left? This season of heat and wind, this dinner tonight, and those large bands of trembling waves of various shades of green that split my heart with their incredible beauty. We’re witnessing the last days of civilization as we know it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166125826-DYLDITO6UQNNB7NA03YZ/DS+079.jpg 2025 Prelude to Devastation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166140149-V3G9V733Z8F8UNCC0QZ3/DS+080.jpg 2025 Make the joy now, that we want, no shape for space & time now but the shapes we will https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770166160929-MKV20XUGIUYZM8HYMRX4/DS+078.jpg 2025 Blessed be thirst for teaching us the purity of water. Blessed be thirst for gathering us around the spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168489466-VQJMT01IRYC7WN5IRCNH/DS+082.jpg 2025 Hundredth Repetition, After High Noon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168535104-23XBFJ844C4NOTR9OHX5/DS+085.jpg 2025 The Strategy of Composition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168573517-TUUZA1FX08Z7N560Q57U/DS+075.jpg 2025 Being must everywhere be the basis of our thought and deed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168596527-JUPGINVYGXK6YA5X910D/DS+072.jpg 2025 Flourishing fully-flowered forgotten lawns sprawling and peopled teetering globe balancing us furnished worldly palms for holding to touch that which won’t be persona or jailed or sequestered or loved in that object way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168514937-ZVRR879KIN5JGWC13QSO/DS+084.jpg 2025 An Old Rebirth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168618416-PXYORH5ZTDOVU0MA0WXX/DS+073.jpg 2025 This is the dawn of a paradise of delight: where our passions spring live in a disruption of our homes, food, tempests, motorways https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168643339-ZYGDS25DRBD4W6OOAZ7B/DS+087.jpg 2025 Seasons wait for you not https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168667908-GWB7DC5LNI3562JRPNXI/DS+088.jpg 2025 We shall live the simple life & keep each other https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168690773-RGDBDNWOOICB7FCYG6UC/DS+090.jpg 2025 Hedgerow tenders at dawn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537e7675e4b0fe1ee8046635/1770168757408-50XLR2U3FEVP0018N7GK/DS+081.jpg 2025 Tasting sweet, remembering bitter. 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