Kasey Feral Smith
Artist, writer, historian, ghost sign expert, leftist, Vermeer fangirl, American living in the Netherlands. she/her kaseysmith.net
- It's -2C and there's a naked man smoking on an Amsterdam balcony. Vice, like nature, finds a way.
- Done. These mixed media paintings are companion pieces exploring loss, anger, and one potential fate of Rembrandt's The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee -- that it has sat rolled up in a tube for 36 years and has been ruined through neglect.
- The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee is presented as fragmented and disintegrating. It's something that has been broken. Something in the process of becoming undone.
- I painted myself into both pieces. My self insert, staring at Rembrandt's self insert, staring at the audience. Implying that we're all stuck in the same boat, handling our own feelings of irreversible loss. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThfkM6HW/
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View full threadI have some small embroideries about this painting I might make, but next comes my eulogy to the lost edges of The Night Watch. Another momento mori to what was, and will never be again.
- All four cats have a mild respiratory infection and it's like a little symphony of sneezes in here. Many of them directed straight into my face. 🤧
- Mmmmmmmm Cat snot....
- My partner @tmm.cx went into a 2 year long rabbit hole on Microsoft Bob and came out the other side an expert on the topic. Here's video from their #FOSDEM talk Adversarial Interoperability - Writing a Microsoft Bob Application if you want to share in the nerdery. video.fosdem.org/2026/janson/...
- HP and I have very, very different interests but we share a certain thoroughness, a talent at systems thinking, and a desire to know EVERYTHING that underpins a lot of our dynamic. ❤️
- This is who runs this account.
