#BREATHER is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 10 people shared 12 posts with it — around 0 a day. Activity is down 100% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 28 with 9 posts.

Posts with #BREATHER

Suzanne Daley

@suzannedaley.bsky.social

9 months ago

Whether you be a warrior, witch, healer, empath, whoever, whatever ~ all of us need quiet, nurturing, a replenishing of spirit 💚 #greenwitch #health #heal #breather #peace #selfcare

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Hans Rindal

@deob.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

When the weather allows - #Rondane #Norway #Høvringen - nice place to have some #off-grid-time, a #breather - recommendable #photography #nature #mountains #visitlillehammer #lillehammer #photo #fotografie #foto #time-off #outback #skiing

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Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Marcel Duchamp Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) Paris 1925 #marcelduchamp #cubism #dada #surrealism #avantgarde #art #modernart #sculpture #breather #frenchart #americanart #Paris #newyork

Rotary Demisphere is one of several works in which Duchamp experimented with mechanisms that produce optical effects. When set in motion, the circles appear to pulsate. The copper ring around the dome’s circumference is engraved with French words whose sounds echo one another: Rrose Sélavy et moi esquivons les ecchymoses des esquimaux aux mots exquis, in English, “Rrose Sélavy and I dodge the Eskimos’ bruises with exquisite words” (Eskimo is a now outdated term referring to Indigenous peoples from the Arctic). Rrose Sélavy is a persona that Duchamp debuted in 1920 as part of his broader investigation of identity, authorship, and the boundaries of conventional art.
When Marcel Duchamp created his most famous work—the industrially produced urinal Fountain—it was largely ignored. “Of course, it had to be scandalous,” Duchamp later recalled of his readymade, but its provocation went deeper than a cheap bit of toilet humor.
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Fountain was the high point of Duchamp’s campaign to dismantle and expand the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art; it had begun four years earlier, when he asked, “Can one make works that are not ‘of art’?”
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Readymades were ordinary, pre-existing objects like urinals, bicycle wheels, and snow shovels elevated to the status of high art simply by the artist’s act of presentation. “In other words, I reduce the idea of aesthetic consideration to the choice of the mind, not the ability or cleverness of the hand,”
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Duchamp explained. The choice of a readymade was to be guided by a kind of “aesthetic indifference” with the intention to “avoid emotion, to have the driest possible feeling toward it.”
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On occasion the works were given a title like In Advance of the Broken Arm. Often humorous or even nonsensical, the titles poked fun at the seriousness of high art.

Avant-garde transgression and the playful overturning of customs (artistic, societal, or otherwise) became central to Duchamp’s practice. Challenging expectations about gender identity, he created a glamorous female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy. “I thought it was much more basic to change from a man into a woman than to change from a religion to another,” Duchamp reported.
Rrose’s name was a pun—when said out loud, it sounds like “Eros, c’est la vie” (“Eros, that’s life.”) Rrose was the creator of many of Duchamp’s works in the 1920s and ’30s, including his kinetic sculpture Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) and his experimental Dadaist film Anemic Cinema, which she signed with her thumbprint.
Duchamp was always caught between France and New York, and he moved back and forth across the Atlantic several times. He finally settled in the US after World War II and worked in New York for the rest of his life. From 1952, he began working in secret on his final and most scandalous work, Étant donnés: 1. La chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). Now located at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the installation is reminiscent of a diorama. Looking through a peephole, the viewer sees the body of a nude female mannequin holding a gas lamp and stretched out in a landscape. Inspired by Gustave Courbet’s infamous erotic painting Origin of the World (1866), Duchamp positioned the viewer at the feet of the nude figure, forcing them into an uncomfortable voyeuristic encounter.
Duchamp resisted categorization, prioritizing creative individuality. Though he’s primarily remembered as an artist, he was also a curator, conservator, art advisor, professional chess player, writer, inventor, and celebrity. While Duchamp was fond of referring to himself as simply a respirateur or “breather,” his lifelong friend summed up these so-called “marginal” activities when he said the best thing about Duchamp was the “use of his time.”

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com

@inkskratch.com

over 1 year ago

pinksea.art/did:plc:itmi2… #pinksea #heavy, #breather #inkskratch

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Lillycue Dragon of Darkness

@lillycue.me

27 days ago

Nice time at the park, a well deserved rest. Listen to my new song: Wicked Melancholy. Out on Bandcamp now, will be released everywhere on the 15th. You can also check out the music video on YouTube. Links in my profile. lillycue.me #rest #relaxing #reward #breather #park

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Suzanne Daley

@suzannedaley.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

True wonder lies in the simple 🌷 breathing fully, being totally present, matching your energy with nature's 💕 #greenwitch #animism #nature #harmnone #peace #healing #health #breather #bethechange

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Alan From Uptown

@alfromuptown.bsky.social

7 months ago

Just a short break from my evening workout! Weekend ahead. Christmas went by so fast! #Breather #EveningWorkout #NewYearsNext

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phr3q☝️one👁️sea 🌊 bee 🐝 🖇️🗽💞⚖️

@phr3qoneseabee.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

❤️‍🔥 serene ⚡️ bike 🚲 shinrin 🌳 yoku 🛀 with wonderfuls! 💞 z fireflies 🔥 are out in full force! have seen a few early hatchers for a few weeks & now zillions as far as 👁️ i can see! 🌊 #dogsofbluesky 🌌 #photography 📷 #shinrinyoku #design 👨‍💻 & #5calls #breather 🌬️ #doggos 🐕

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🛡️ AWingedShield 🛡️ | Vtuber

@awingedshield.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Hey there friends, Letting you know that #Tempo Tuesdays with Wing has been #cancelled. Well, for today anyhow. That's right. No #stream. I can tell you're sad. Us too. We just had to find out another #financial blow of #adulting. Gonna need to take a #breather and sit this one out.