𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀

'Don't Look' Andrew Stones 2025. Drawing, square format. One of a series of jagged, graphic icons for a culture of looking, or looking away. Each drawing features a solid white motif with a strong black outline, bearing one or two thick-lidded human eyes, also in black outline. In each case the main motif almost fills the picture frame, allowing only a glimpse of a background suggestive of a sky or landscape filled with fire and churning, sooty smoke. In 'Don't Look' the main motif is a chunky, white, diagonal cross - like a check-box or crossing-out mark - its four limbs slightly uneven. At its centre is an almost-closed human eye. The background is a vaporous mass of fiery red and sooty black. As with other works in the series the drawing style is akin to comic-book drawing, with no sketchiness or ambiguity of line or fill. The contrast between a bold, main motif, and a dynamic, fiery background recalls the comic-art depiction of a 'solid' or heroic figure, striking a singular stance in some instance of war, conflict or conflagration. The central figure of 'Don't Look' might be an icon for deliberate, obvious or performative inaction.

'Don't Look'
Drawing, 2025
W/alt text.
#art #artist #drawing #graphicart #contemporaryart #conceptualart #artsky #war #stateterror #politics

'His Endgame' Haiku/senryu, Andrew Stones 2026. March 2026 version. Square format panel. Pale yellow background with dark grey typewriter script, reading: "Old dog's endgame: if not for us, or them, then for his visceral self."

'His Endgame'
Haiku/senryu, March 2026 version.
#haiku #senryu #poetry #textart #poetrysky #politics #philosophy #president #dictator #oldman #war #terror #stateterror #bombing #civilian #narcissism

"The entire internet experience…"
The ones expected to be having the ’experience‘ will turn out to be the only entities in the whole circus who have actual money in actual bank accounts… and (yay!) that’s me and you… so, obv, just… DON’T SHARE YOUR BANK-ACCOUNT ADJACENT DATA.

Art History Beast

Gifts to the world, from the world.

FAO @erikahall.bsky.social

I fear I may have witnessed Rick in concert around this time… the hair, the hat, the tankard of mead, I had it all goin’ on.

I mean, what if it’s spotted by the Estate of Aubrey Beardsley?
(Apols: a bit niche)

Deeply weird ‘giant knobhead’ illustration… how did that get past legal?

Think DSL is saying that people’s capacity for "loathing" all too easily exceeds their capacity for paying attention to what’s being done, which is harder work.

Not saying I agree with her conclusions. But that seems to be her main, and fair, point.

Definitely a factor, imo.

And politicos going for outright power don’t mind one bit?

Huge majority. Worried abt votes next time? Stay at least vaguely on the left.

FWIW: I’m in my 60s, in the lower left quadrant. I’ve abstained or voted Green since Blair. Never been polled. Where is "educated/engaged" In the data? Not as influential on personal politics as wealth?

Huge majority. Worried abt votes next time? Stay at least vaguely on the left.

FWIW: I’m in my 60s, in the lower left quadrant. I’ve abstained or voted Green since Blair. Never been polled. Where is "educated/engaged" In the data? Not as influential on personal politics as wealth?

Wot she said

Very droll, sir.*

*old person’s smiley-face emoji.

Yes

<influencer life>

If you see something* that looks wrong, please phone or text…

See it. Say it. Sorted.

*something non-grammatical, obv.

<no judgement>
As long as both carriages consent.

'His Endgame' Haiku/senryu, Andrew Stones 2026. March 2026 version. Square format panel. Pale yellow background with dark grey typewriter script, reading: "Old dog's endgame: if not for us, or them, then for his visceral self."

'His Endgame'
Haiku/senryu, March 2026 version.
#haiku #senryu #poetry #textart #poetrysky #politics #philosophy #president #dictator #oldman #war #terror #stateterror #bombing #civilian #narcissism

"If we think it and say it, it will become."

Who knows what the non-empathetic mistake as ‘anxiety’?

Thanks again @yannoehl.bsky.social

'Kit-World: Suns/Stems' Andrew Stones 2025. Drawing, square format. Minimal white marks (with sepia-tone 'bloom') on a black ground. One of a series of scratchy line drawings imagining a rickety, impermanent world assembled from small, fragile sub-units, each made in the manner of a kit. The 'Sun/Stems' sub-unit is as follows: two roughly-rendered ellipses with a few hair-like antenna occupy the top fifth of the picture. These two 'suns' are supported on long, wonky stems rendered in a combination of broken crayon line and abrasive scratching. The stems are grounded in two cups, minimally drawn among a litter of softer lines suggestive of a nest, in the lower fifth of the frame. The rest is solid black, except for a title and artist's signature running vertically up the right-hand edge of the picture. The 'Kit-World' series employs a method digitally equivalent to drawing on a 'scraper board', where a dark surface is scratched through to reveal a white layer underneath. Inspired by one particular limitation of the scraper board, the artist adopted a 'no erasing' a rule, placing a premium on every mark made, and promoting a minimalist approach.

'Kit-World: Nite Sky' Andrew Stones 2025. Drawing, square format. Minimal white marks (with sepia-tone 'bloom') on a black ground. One of a series of scratchy line drawings imagining a rickety, impermanent world assembled from small, fragile sub-units, each made in the manner of a kit. Taken as a landscape, dividing the black picture frame into horizontal strips, 'Nite Sky' is as follows: to the right of the upper quarter is a four-pointed star, rendered roughly as a fine white outline; to its left one small, softer mark; two ciphers suggestive of celestial bodies. Below these, the frame is divided roughly in half, horizontally, by a long, jinking, smear, like the trace of a light source moving jerkily across the field-of-view of an open-shuttered camera. The smear-line is punctuated by two chunky, broken vertical lines suggestive of posts, roughly aligned with the celestial bodies above. The remainder is solid black, except for a title and artist's signature at bottom left and bottom right. The 'Kit-World' series employs a method digitally equivalent to drawing on a 'scraper board', where a dark surface is scratched through to reveal a white layer underneath. Inspired by one particular limitation of the scraper board, the artist adopted a 'no erasing' a rule, placing a premium on every mark made, and promoting a minimalist approach.

'Kit-World: Hookys' Andrew Stones 2025. Drawing, square format. Minimal white marks (with sepia-tone 'bloom') on a black ground. One of a series of scratchy line drawings imagining a rickety, impermanent world assembled from small, fragile sub-units, each made in the manner of a kit. Taken as a whole, 'Hookys' has the character of a photographic plate negative, microscope or x-ray image, its upper fifth and lower two-fifths solid black. Running across the entire width of the frame, slightly above the median line and angled a few degrees down to the right, is a broad, textured band somewhat like the edge-on view of a slab of stone or ice, marked by pits and scratches, giving it a time-worn or weathered appearance. Three smaller, white entities, rendered in scraped white lines, seem to be partially embedded, like parasites, in the upper and lower edges of the large object positioned across the frame. Each is unique, but all have fine appendages ending in finely-etched white hooks. Two extend their hooks into the blackness below the slab, one reaches into the blackness above, with two, tiny, wavering limbs. There is a title at bottom centre, and an artist's signature written vertically at bottom right, both in white. The 'Kit-World' series employs a method digitally equivalent to drawing on a 'scraper board', where a dark surface is scratched through to reveal a white layer underneath. Inspired by one particular limitation of the scraper board, the artist adopted a 'no erasing' a rule, placing a premium on every mark made, and promoting a minimalist approach.

'Kit-World: Hairy 1' Andrew Stones 2025. Drawing, square format. Minimal white marks (with sepia-tone 'bloom') on a black ground. One of a series of scratchy line drawings imagining a rickety, impermanent world assembled from small, fragile sub-units, each made in the manner of a kit. 'Hairy 1' has the character of a minimally-rendered landscape. Just below the top edge of the frame is a possible horizon, in the form of a fine, undulating horizontal line with interruptions, thickenings and vertical glitches. Just below this, a band of broad, softly textured smudges hint at some kind of middle ground. About one-third up from the bottom edge, is a sharply scratched, undulating white line, running the width of the frame. Springing vertically upwards from it, slightly right of centre, is a cactus, phallus or finger-like object, its main body textured like fabric, arrayed all around with roughly drawn prickles or hairs: taken literally, a hairy number '1', or 'hairy 1'. The bottom third of the frame is solid black, except for a title and artist's signature at bottom left and bottom right. The 'Kit-World' series employs a method digitally equivalent to drawing on a 'scraper board', where a dark surface is scratched through to reveal a white layer underneath. Inspired by one particular limitation of the scraper board, the artist adopted a 'no erasing' a rule, placing a premium on every mark made, and promoting a minimalist approach.

‘Kit-World’
Drawings 2025, x4 from a series of 5
- ‘Suns/Stems’
- ‘Nite Sky’
- ‘Hookys’
- ‘Hairy 1’
All w/alt text.
#art #artist #drawing #graphicart #conceptualart #contemporaryart #artsky #landscape #philosophy #humour #satire

with s saucer of water?

Very funny. Like trying to get a live eel to whistle... or something.
Particularly enjoyed "J" as an answer (one of the very few answers, actchalleh).

You wag

No, then.