28 days from hell

TLDR adopted a puppy and its thrown me into a whirlwind (essay below). and the usual obviously.

hopefully the hardest month of the year. i haven’t experienced something as tumultuous as this in a while but Im grateful for my life and for my eeny. this year my reposition was top write an essay a month. they would be related to my rate inherently since there isn’t all that much else to me and the art life conglomerate is at this post inseparable. just an update for anyone that reads the essay. My boyfriend and i have since decided to send Eeny to a training intensive on a payment plan. hopefully next months essay will have an optimistic update. regardless the essay was written ten day after our incident and is one of the rawest things i’ve written. no foot nots to hide behind, no intensive research, just me Eeny and our predicament, and the haunting past of course. anyways business as somewhat usual below.

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consumption list:

• 💻 the robot body by Sarah Davis Baker

• 💻 how to actually get smarter by Mina Le

• 💻 twenty one pilots and simone weil: the same philosophy by Groovyghostnotes

• 💻 i read simone weill to understand twenty one pilots lore by Groovyghostnotes

• 🎵 📹 twenty one pilots- drag path

• 💻 why people think culture it’s dead by Shannon Kim

• 💻 where did these weird 3D gifs come from? by Lugalan

• 🖼️ 🗣️ mike kelley with john welchman at the walker art center

• 📄 “i was really surprised”: watch late artist mike kelley reflect on the many misinterpretations of his stuffed-animal installations on Artnet

• 📄 expert visible mending tips from artist celia pym by Alyson Walsh

• 📄 the sacrificial and the carnivalesque in th abject artwork of mike kelley by Holly McWhorter

• 📄 talking failure: mike kelley and julie sylvester

• 📄 the use of stuffed animals by hospitalized adolescents: an area for psychodynamic exploration by Steven L Jaffe and Katherine French

• 📄 kelley and pain by T Clutch Fleischmann

studio moments:

mind map:

February 2026

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sketchbook pages:

and lastly, the link to the essay which is 4 pages so i dint want to copy paste it as a whole. obviously no pressure to read it but this is after all my breathing archive

see ya next month.

xoxo,

ophelia