🎬💞✌️Weeks left to experience 🌹🪨🌸🌞🌺🌚🌷🌻🏔️🪻🌊🪷💎🌼🕸️
🐉🌞🪷What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been🧬☠️📿
🛣️🚎👉December ✌️🍩 😎@andrewrafaczgallery
👁️💋👁️ Chicago, IL🐂🌭🎯
🙏🏽Thank you 💻 @samuel_schwindt 📰 @newcitymag 🗞️🔗☣️
✍️☯️💗
In its most expansive form, love is metta: the boundless goodwill that radiates to all beings; karuna: the active compassion that responds to suffering; mudita: the joy in the flourishing of others; upekkha: the calm recognition of impermanence. This form of love dissolves self-centeredness and reveals the interdependence of all life. Love is a discipline, cultivating presence, attentiveness, and care as one would tend a sacred garden. Love is not only felt but enacted —in every choice, gesture, and bond. It is a living ethic of connection.
Suffering is an inevitable part of life, yet it is through the metabolization of pain that being deepens and meaning arises. Despite our differences and irreconcilable grievances, an invisible force connects us—felt more than known—binding all living beings in shared existence. Liberation is not an escape from earth but a deep flowering within it.
Aiding this endeavor, joy and humor emerge as potent strategies. In the artist’s words, “Choosing joy is radical because joy is idiosyncratic pleasure—and that destabilizes power as it currently exists.” Humor softens rigidity, challenges fixed relationships, and cultivates compassion. These tools allow Chandler to create environments charged with the profound openness of childlike wonder—a state in which perception is fluid and everything is alive with possibility. Chandler’s talismanic lexicon punctuates a myth-making that embraces the fantastical and positions queerness as central—rather than peripheral—to culture itself, revealing transgender identity to be a generative, world-building force. Installed as an interdependent field, the works hold symbols and viewers in reciprocal relation, modeling attunement that resists separation.
#wellschandler #andrewrafaczgallery #crochet #chicago
My last exhibition with 🍈🍈🗡️‼️
💕Feminist Bird 🦢 Club Presents: Luncheon on My Ass 🍑💦🍽️
Opened May 1️⃣2️⃣ @galerieericmouchet in gay 💅Paris🇫🇷 and runs 🏃🏿♀️🏃🏽🏃🏻♂️until mid July 🌞🪷🕊️🌸🦅💐🦆🌺🦜🌷🦉🌻🦤🌼🦚🪺🦩🦃🐓🐥🪶🐣
✨🌟💫So very grateful for the opportunity to share my work internationally with such a kind and supportive team❤️🧡💛💚💙
🥰🤗😎Many thanks ro @michael_honecker_paris@curator.on.the.run@valeri.bazin@sophie_monjaret@eric_mouchet for all that you do and for making me feel so special! 😊
🩻👽⚕️📿🛐🤲🏼🧘🏽♂️😇🧎🏻♂️🛀🙏🏽And many thanks for everyone’s healing vibes. I bounced back strong enough to have FTM top surgery yesterday and am doing remarkably well‼️ Feeling in the best hands 🙌🏼with nurse👩🏻⚕️ @gmercedescf ➕nurse 🧑🏻⚕️@mabushaheen by my side⛑️
#wellschandler #ericmouchet #manet #ledejeunersurlherbe #topsurgeryrecovery
❤️💚💛Last Week to 👁 👄👁Schizophyllum Commune🌿🌞🦜🌱🐢🐞🐝Muchas Gracias 💋@diablo_rosso 🐛🍃🦋🐌and everyone who came to see it❗️🇵🇦🐸 #wellschandler #diablorossogallery
💆🏻♀️👾🛸Melissa Brown💎🤎🔮💅@boogiebrowntown ☯️ was the first artist I met after moving to NY 🗽 1️⃣4️⃣ years ago🌀 Kind, funny, weird, generous, magical➕talented, no wonder she is beloved by so many artists🩷❤️🧡💛💚
📚Snag a zine at her show 🪟🛍️🛒Window Shopping 🎨@derekellergallery 😎Until March 2️⃣🥇 ➕ read my thoughts on her spellbinding paintings 🪄🕸️✨also 🔛 @the_electric_pencil
🚪🔮🔭🦉🪷TH5️⃣ 5️⃣L5️⃣CTRIC P5️⃣NCIL✏️🔌💥
🔎👄🔍I Want to Believe: The Paintings of Melissa Brown🌈⚗️✨🚀🪐👽🕸️🛰️
🧠✍️🧡🔗 IN BIO 🦠
#melissabrown #derekellergallery #theelectricpencil #wellschandler #windowshopping
🎂🐐🎨🐉💞 Highlights from her lecture on 🐍🐯🦅Animist Abstraction 🔻🌈🔺@ny_studioschool 🏛️🧙♂️🖍️🧙🏻✨ 🪤
🌞The totally original ➕magical Tamara Gonzales
@tamaragonzales 🪬🔥🧿❤️🔥🧿🔥🪬
🎶A few quotes that hit me🧱
🌀“I look at the painting and now the painting is looking back at me.”
🍵“Once you start describing these things, it’s like driving into a ditch.”
⛓️💥”Syncretics in the arts is the first crack in colonialism.”
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎
#tamaragonzales #newyorkstudioschool #sacredvalley #totem #ancesteralwisdom
🥰♓️😎Loved the way 4️⃣🍩 finished ✅ 🏵️🏝️🌊🐠🍥🐡🐚🐢✌️🎱💋🎱⚡️💫🌸🐳🪼🐟🦈🐬🐙🌺🌚🌝🪷🐍🔥🐦🔥🎆
🎇🤿Excited for 🫲4️⃣🥇🫱🪄🔮🦀🌞📿🧘🏻♂️🌊🏄🏻🎨🛸🤰🏻🎉🎂🥳🎊🎁
#wellschandler #surinislands #rileybeach #khaolak #aonang
🌞Wat Arun / Temple of the Dawn 🌅 located on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok 🇹🇭
Hindu imagery appears in Thai Buddhist temples because Thai religious culture developed through a blend of Theravada Buddhism and earlier Brahmanical-Hindu frameworks. Royal court traditions incorporated Hindu deities and Mount Meru symbolism.
🏓Aruna is a figure in Hindu mythology who was the charioteer of Surya, the sun god. He symbolizes the moment before full awakening. The brother of Garuda,his name means “reddish glow” or “dawn light.”
🌸🌺🌼The temple’s surface is decorated with fragments of Chinese porcelain, repurposed ballast from trading ships. Both practical and symbolic the transformation of the ceramic material symbolizes enlightenment arising from brokenness.
#watarun #theravedabuddhism #mountmeru #bangkok #wellschandler
