The Monthly Edition: May
Let's chat rainbow clouds, Quinta Brunson's refreshing response to comments on her work, cool things the Alt community is up to, and whimsical installations.
Did we do it?! Did we make it through May?! If you’re nodding your head yes, it’s time for a little breather. Welcome to the May Edition. Here are a few topics we discussed this month:
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Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta make up StudioDRIFT. With the help of their talented 45 person team, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances.
Earlier this month, their installation titled, Shy Society, debuted in Venice for the 61st Biennale di Venezia. And when it showed up in our feed, we immediately stopped scrolling. From the artists:
“Shy Society is an outdoor installation of multiple moving textile elements, revealing a fundamental principle of nature: transformation. In the natural world, nothing is static—everything shifts, adapts, responds. Change is not disruption, but a condition for balance and survival.
What if our built environments engaged with change instead of resisting it? Shy Society introduces movement into architecture—transforming static space into dynamic systems. Soft elements respond to wind, light, and human presence, aligning with nature. Movement becomes a shared, embodied language—creating moments of connection in a world increasingly distanced from physical experience.”
Mesmerizing. We could watch this for hours.
The Hollywood Reporter just hosted their annual Comedy Actress Emmy Roundtable. It features Ashley Padilla, Hannah Einbinder, Keke Palmer, Lisa Kudrow, Quinta Brunson, and Rachel Sennott, and you can watch the whole discussion.
We were especially intrigued by Quinta Brunson’s thoughts about comments on her work. She says,
“I just don’t feel like comments are actually valuable in this space. I want to know how you feel, did you enjoy it—and I’m not even sure I want to know that! I made it. And it’s out...
I went to a museum like two years ago, and I really was sitting there thinking about painters and paintings. They did the painting, the painting is done. They don’t know what I think about it when I walk through the museum. But it’s in a museum.
Their intention of the painting doesn’t even matter. If I look at the painting and I get something totally different from it than the artist intended, then that’s my business, and their business was just to do it.”
The concept that what people think of the art, isn’t the artist’s business, is compelling (and probably easier to fathom when the artist-in-question is no longer living). But we’re curious if the same idea applies to social media and content creation. Is content art? It’s true “content” is a massive tent, but we would argue at least some of it (maybe a lot of it) does fall under the category of “art”.
And if content is art, then are the comments none of the content creator’s business? Should creators avoid reading comments? Read, but ignore comments? Close comment sections altogether and let viewers/readers/followers discuss the creator’s work on Reddit forums instead?
What’s your take?
Dream team! Clare Vivier and Kate Berry nailed the design of this historic French home
Wish we were closer to Bakersfield to shop at Oleander + Palm
Tempted to preorder fabric (and we don’t even sew)
Rad Studio sounds like the perfect cure for summertime doldrums
It’s still so exciting to see your work in print
Susan is opening a store dedicated to needle point (yay for analog hobbies!)
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