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- Micaela

@caelarue

Midwestern Xennial: Great Lakes Edition. She/Her. Neurodivergent AF. Park enthusiast (city, county, state--they're all great). Occasional shutterbug. Poster of cool art every morning. The rest, you'll figure out as we go along. www.caelarue.com

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- Micaela@caelarue· 24d

And just because this is how I roll, here's the actual strip:

The Sunday strip, wherein the majority of the panels are made up of Calvin and Hobbes dancing wordlessly to music. The final panel is of Calvin's parents, who are in bed. Calvin's mother is sitting up, clearly not fully awake, saying, "Either he's playing classical music at 78 RPM, or I'm still dreaming." Meanwhile, Calvin's father is lying on his side, facing away from his wife and grumpily replies, "First thing tomorrow morning, I'm calling the orphanage."

- Micaela@caelarue· 24d

Braved the janky air to check out the flowers in the front yard, and saw this little guy gathering pollen. #BloomScrolling #Bee

A bee, walking around on a pink coneflower on a hazy, overcast day. Flanking the coneflower are two more of the same color, and behind them is a carpet of black-eyed susans.

- Micaela@caelarue· 24d

Mornin'. Have some Cait McEniff to start your day. #Art

A simple illustration of a cottage surrounded by a forest. We are given a bird's-eye view of the scene, so we can see the clear circle of ground around the cottage in the center of frame. Around it, the individual trees fill the rest of the frame, creating a dense rectangle around the open space at the center.

- Micaela@caelarue· 25d

Mornin'. Have some Saul Leiter to start your day. #Art

A photo of a white woman walking her dog in the rain in an unknown location in 1957. The woman is wearing a long skirt, a jacket and flats. Her dark hair is cut into a chin-length bob with bangs. In her left hand, she is holding an open umbrella; in her right, she is holding the end of a leash. By her right side, a medium-sized short-haired dog is trotting along, their features blurred by the heavy downpour of rain. The sidewalk is made of paving stones. and they are shiny from all the rainfall. Behind the woman and the dog, we can just make out lampposts, but otherwise, everything has been made blurry by the heavy rain.

- Micaela@caelarue· 26d

Mornin'. Have some Lossapardo to start your day. #Art

A painting of the reflection in a car's rearview mirror. We can see the artist--a Black man with short hair--in the driver seat, a white woman with long, dyed hair that is in the process of growing out in the passenger seat and a white man in the backseat. The Black man is focused on the road. The white woman is adjusting her glasses. The white man is looking out the window at passing scenery. We can also see in the mirror's reflection some of the slightly rustic landscape they are driving through, but all we can see out of the windshield is endless sky and a slightly askew windshield wiper.

- Micaela@caelarue· 26d

It's never a good sign when your weather app starts sending you alerts in all caps, is it? #HoosierSky

An alert from a local news station's weather app on my phone, informing me that:

WORST AIR QUALITY IN THE WORLD THURSDAY IS RIGHT OVER THE GREAT LAKES

- Micaela@caelarue· 27d

Mornin'. Have some Théo van Rysselberghe to start your day. #Art

A painting of a lemon tree in full fruit in Mortola Inferiore, Ventimiglia, Imperia, Liguria, Italy, in 1921. The canvas is devoted mainly to the fruit-laden branches of the lemon tree, so we can see the yellow of the ripe fruit against the green of the leaves. It is sunny day, so the colors look especially vibrant. Above, the sky is a clear blue. Just visible behind the tree is a stone railing on what appears to be either a terrace or walkway.

- Micaela@caelarue· 28d

Mornin'. Have some Oye Diran to start the day. #Art

A photo of a Black model, wearing a cropped wig made of pink flower petals. The model is standing with her hands on her hips, her head turned towards the right side of frame. Her eyes are closed and her lips are slightly parted.

- Micaela@caelarue· 29d

Mornin'. Have some Bashir Sultani to start your day. #Art

An image of a person running, made by layering pencils on top of one another, so that the metal bits around the erasers create the image. The sharpened ends of the pencil also create comic action lines, making it look like the person is running very fast.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 13

Mornin'. Have some Albert Kechyan to start your day. #Art

A still-life painting of a peeled grapefruit on a counter in a darkened room. A segment of the grapefruit has been removed, suggesting that someone ate a piece of it before it was painted.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 12

Mornin'. Have some Katherine Duclos to start your day. #Art

A mosaic made of painted EGO bricks, which looks to me like an 8-bit rendering of clouds during sunrise or sunset in a wide, open area.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 11

Mornin'. Have some Xuân Lộc Xuân to start your day. #Art

An illustration of a white shorthaired cat, walking among blooming nasturtiums.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 10

Mornin'. Have some Fay Godwin to start your day. #Art

A black and white photo of a landscape in Lumbutts, Yorkshire, in 1977. In the foreground is a grassy hill with a narrow path running through it. Further out, we can see rolling hills, farmland and (off to the right) a reservoir. Above, the sky is cloudy, and we can see the shadow cast by the clouds on the left-hand side of frame.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 9

Well, fuck--now I have to break out this painting that has haunted me for decades:

A Francis Bacon painting, depicting a white man in a three-piece suit, sitting on a wooden chair in what appears to be some sort of glass box. The man is frozen mid-scream and appears to be vanishing before our very eyes, as a plume of black vapor flows away from him.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 9

Mornin'. Have some Nancy Friedland to start your day. #Art

A painting of a car driving down a road either early in the morning or late in the evening. The car is alone on the road, and is driving in the shadow cast by a forest of evergreen trees, so all we can really see are the headlights and some highlights on the car's frame. Beyond the trees, the sky is a pink, which contrasts with the dark greens of the trees and the land beside the road.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 8

Mornin'. Have some Josef Albers to start your day. #Art

An abstract painting, consisting of squares neatly nestled within one another (similar to a matryoshka doll). The squares are different colors, starting with the outermost (and therefore the largest) square being a deep blue and colors of following squares getting brighter and warmer until the smallest box is a dark orange.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 7

Mornin'. Have some Ryo Takemasa/武政諒 to start your day. #Art

An illustration of a train traveling down the tracks through rice fields on a partly-cloudy day. Our view of the scene is from above, so we are looking down at the train, the tracks and the water-filled fields, allowing us to see the clouds reflected in them.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 6

Mornin'. Have some Fatinha Ramos to start your day. #Art

An illustration of a little Black girl, standing in the rain while holding an umbrella. Our view of the girl is from above looking down, so most of what we see is her legs, her red rain boots and the hem of her green dress; we only see her face, her braided updo, the fact that her dress is sleeveless and her pale blue umbrella in the reflection of a puddle she's standing in. On the concrete around her feet are stray leaves (likely dislodged from their branches by the rain).

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 5

Mornin'. Have some Guim Tio to start your day. #Art

A painting of a person wearing black slacks and a red shirt, lying on their stomach on what appears to be a hotel bed. They haven't bothered to pull back the blankets or anything; they're just flopped on the bed out of apparent exhaustion. Our view of the room is from the foot of the bed, so we can see the tall headboard, the bedside table with the digital clock and a large picture of what appears to be a beach scene on the wall off to the left.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 4

Mornin'. Have some Faith Ringgold to start your day. #Art

A painting of the American flag. However, instead of just being a painted representation of that, in the red stripes are written the words of the First Amendment in gold paint, while names of famous Americans, landmark legal cases, activist groups and hate groups are written faintly in gray ink on the white stripes. In the blue field with the stars are even more names of these same things, but more densely crowded together and written in gold and white paint. The entire work has a gold border, and towards the top are the words FREEDOM OF SPEECH in large gold lettering.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 3

The hydrangeas are getting taller.

The view out of my office window on an early summer morning. The lower pane of the window is filled with white hydrangeas; the upper pane shows us the tree across the street, its branches full of leaves. In front of the window is a sheer curtain, which gives everything a misty look.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 3

Mornin'. Have some Ed Ruscha to start your day. #Art

A landscape, depicting a ridge and tall grasses during the Golden Hour. The sky above has some clouds, which are tinted pink. Over this scene are the following words in white print:

THE MUSIC
FROM THE
BALCONIES
NEARBY
WAS OVERLAID
BY THE NOISE
OF SPORADIC
ACTS OF
VIOLENCE

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 3

Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in July:

A stone that has the words "Love Yourself" written on it with a silvery paint pen. The words are way surrounded by squiggles and a heart (also in silver paint pen). The stone is sitting on a much larger rock in a forest.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 2

It might be hot as fuck outside, but the wild potato vines are starting to bloom, and that's pretty cool. #BloomScrolling

The white blossom of a wild potato vine on a sunny, summer morning. A bumblebee has landed on it, and is getting ready to get some nectar.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 2

Mornin'. Have some Natalia Juncadella to start your day. #Art

A painting of the shadows cast on a wooden floor on a sunny day. Going at a downward angle from the upper right-hand corner of the canvas, we can see the shadows of the leaves of large plants and the flowers blooming in a planter shaped like a swan in flight on the floor. There are two white carpets on the floor as well, both with blue floral patterns on them.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jul 1

Mornin'. Have some Gordon Parks to start your day. #Art

- Micaela@caelarue· Jun 30

Mornin'. Have some Keith Haring to start your day. #Art

An illustration, depicting a heart with arms and legs appearing to run down a path.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jun 29

This is gonna *suck*. #HoosierSky

A screen cap of my local weather app, which forecasts that--starting today--the next four days are going to be ungodly hot, with temps in the low- to mid-90s°F/mid-30s°C. This is not adding humidity, which is expected to make temps feel more like 100-110°F/37-43°C.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jun 29

Mornin'. Have some David Wojnarowicz to start your day. #Art

A photo of the artist (taken by Bill Dobbs) at an ACT UP demonstration against the FDA in Rockville, Maryland on October 11, 1988. He is seen from behind, wearing a jacket of his own design: Black, with a pink triangle in the center of the back and the following words in white lettering:

IF I DIE OF
AIDS - FORGET
BURIAL - JUST
DROP MY BODY
ON THE STEPS
OF THE F.D.A.

- Micaela@caelarue· Jun 28

Mornin'. Have some Martin Wong/黃馬鼎 to start your day. #Art

A painting depicting a rundown section of the Lower East Side in New York City circa 1983. The main focus of the work are tenement buildings in varying states of disrepair. All around them are abandoned lots full of garbage, and the walls are marked with graffiti. There are two human figures in the painting, each standing in their own little corner. The man in the left corner is the artist; the man in the right is his partner, Miguel Piñero. It is night, and the sky above is clear and full of stars, and some of the constellations have been helpfully marked out and named by the artist. Above them are the following words, written in ASL fingerspelling:

MORNING AT THE EDGE OF TIME IT NEVER REALLY MATTERED

Below that, in more fingerspelling are the words:

STANTON NEAR FORSYTH STREET

But in the sky above Piñero are the following words, written Spanish:

RIENALDO HABIA LLEGADO AL DEPARTAMENTO DONDE VIVIA ESTEBAN QUE AGOBIADO ABRIO LA PUERTA