A Portrait of a Woman & Child
madrid, spain
Portrait of a little Monkey
video on instagram
Planet Transaction
cold hard cash tales of love
Adventures of Mike Management
Cold games in a cold city
IANVS
roman god Janus, january
IANVS (Janus) is the ancient Roman god of thresholds, protection, and transition — the guardian of doorways, beginnings, endings, and the movement from one state of being to another. The month January comes from this deity. The symbolic gateway into a new year.
This monumental Roman structure Monoleum stands as a shrine to Janus. Reflecting duality. Two colossal stone faces, carved in opposing profile, form the sealed threshold — guardians of transition. Which gaze in opposite directions. One seeing the past, the other the future. The structure is monolithic, severe and closed, embodying the idea of a boundary rather than an entrance. If war is imminent. The doors are said to be left open. Which only ever happened three times, the story goes. The Carthage Monoleum, North Africa, c.126 BC
IANVS
amoungst other amazing stories
Everybody knows about Diane
Not many know about Daniel
Daniel Arbus
Diane Arbus was a photographer defined by directness, psychological intensity, and an uncompromising gaze. She is best known for black-and-white portraits made in New York during the 1950s–60s, focusing on people who lived at the margins of mainstream society. Although widely recognized, little is known about her son Daniel. That is, until now.
CARDBOARD CATS | COMING SOON
Back alley cats, outside and neglected
Cardboard Cats is a temporary site-specific installation comprising five hand-built cardboard cat sculptures placed in a back city alley in Dublin. Constructed from salvaged cardboard, the works adopt a deliberately crude, hand-made form, drawing influence from outsider and folk sculpture traditions. Installed without signage or protection, the sculptures occupy a transitional urban space typically associated with neglect, refuse, and passage rather than attention or display. Their fragile materiality leaves them exposed to weather, passers-by, and eventual removal. Encountered unexpectedly, the cats sit between discarded object and attentive presence, producing a moment of uncertainty for those who come across them. By inserting vulnerable, familiar forms into an overlooked public space, Cardboard Cats questions how value, visibility, and care are assigned within the urban environment.
The Residency
"this was an artist that stayed here, once"
Collaboration with Shiri Mordechay. Generative Ai Art Interpretation, exploring surreal dreams ruptured realities, in ordinary context. Here is fictional context of an Art Residency, work left by a previous art resident artist David Tully & Shiri Mordechay.
The Luddites
It was never about machines or progress
Something I'm studying at the moment. A tiny fragment. The Luddites, industrialists, normalized cruelty, capitalist mutation, state coercion, old ways of life, echoes from the past. Empire of Cotton. The Luddites were one of many groups that fought against horrendous exploitation. Horrendous workplace conditions. Their issue was never about machines or progress. Similarly, the industrialists' issues were never about machines or progress.
(The Luddites)
after thoughts
The Mirror Test
magpie passes
Local Processing
shift
Napoleon Bonaparte
Born Corsica Aug 1769 – Died Saint Helena May 1821
THE BEZ
LO-FI SPEED CUTS
The Village School
National Gallery of Ireland
Notes on Art
Public Discernment
ART HEALTH - Generally, how healthy an art form is, is directly related to public discernment. Meaning public discernment, public oversight, public participation, keeps it healthy. It terms of communication and relatability. No public discernment it quickly becomes insular & esoteric, primarily talking to itself. I added Generative Art to the up slope because its the first art form in long time that talks directly to people (thru social media). Whether its good or bad is not the point. What is, is the fact its not blocked by gatekeepers or trying to seek institutional approval. It bypasses all that dogshit and goes directly to the people. Trying to communicate to them. Much like musicians in the early nineties. When they first started making music with computers (electronic music). They didn't care about the old guard or any gatekeeping approval. Generally thats why Music is the healthiest pureist art form. Visual Art being the worst. In the late 20th century that is. Louis B Mayer famously said “the public are always right”.
subscription living
Subscription Living - A Corporate Coup d’état. The cancer living inside democracy. Small street Art/Activism Project. A cop came up and asked what I was doing. Part curious, part troubled by me taking a picture of the homeless people. Told him it was the poster, the context. When he realised it wasn’t insensitive voyeurism. He said they’re harmless. I said it’s sad, the reality of Ireland. Knowing damn well its far from fucking sad, it’s by design. Maybe I was trying to plicate any lingering suspicion. "It’s a reality of many cops" he said. "Living of couches when they get to the city". We parted, half smiled. Interesting encounter. I started to think about what he sees.
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you were going ninety...
video on instagram
Meanwhile in Italy
video on instagram
"of course its not real"
video on instagram
"She's still alive"
video on instagram
H.R.Giger's Funeral
video on instagram
Medium: Generative video, AI-assisted image synthesis Duration: Variable / looped Environment: Fictional outdoor setting
A generative video work imagining the fictional funeral of H. R. Giger, featuring a biomechanical coffin seemingly designed by the artist himself. H. R. Giger’s Funeral is a generative video work that stages a fictional funeral ceremony for the artist, centred on a coffin whose form is unmistakably inspired by Giger’s biomechanical aesthetic. Suspended by a crane and lowered into an open grave, the coffin appears less as a funerary object than as an extension of the body — fused, armoured, and organic. The work operates as a humorous yet respectful artistic gesture rather than a biographical statement. It does not attempt to represent Giger’s life or death, but instead imagines how his visual language might persist beyond the artist himself, shaping even the rituals that mark an ending. The coffin, seemingly designed by Giger for his own departure, collapses authorship and subject into a single form. Presented in stark monochrome, the scene borrows visual cues from documentary funeral photography while exaggerating them through surreal scale and material logic. The presence of onlookers reinforces the performative nature of mourning, while the machine-assisted burial echoes recurring themes in Giger’s work: technology as surrogate anatomy, and ritual as engineered process. By treating death as another site of aesthetic production, H. R. Giger’s Funeral playfully questions how artistic identity survives its maker, and how cultural memory turns style into structure. The work balances dark humour with reverence, framing the funeral not as an ending, but as one final, self-authored image.
"Thank you for all coming"
video on instagram
Altonmon Street
Rose East
"the Poison is Flowing"
the video is on instagram
"its a sign of good health"
the video is on instagram
TokyoToys©
the video is on instagram
oligarchy moves indoors
inauguration 2025
The House Boat
the video is on instagram
an abstract fragment of something
the video is on instagram
Midnight at the Met
wallpaper
BUY ME A COFFEE
"where have you been"
GET ON IT
speculative non fiction
Last Nights Generative Dream
The Yellow House
Bruegels Mouse
"I Love You"
Diorama Night Drama
"This is my favorite"
Robotic Night Sculpts
The Birds Nest
I think the long arc of human history was like our childhood. We were playful, cruel, innocent and we believed in magic. Now, as we move into adolescence we're starting to understand and recognize our actions. The consequences. Like the deep pain we caused the natural world. Its fragility that we hold in our hands. The Birds Nest. A site-specific art installation by Artist David Tully. In association with the OPW / Heritage Ireland. Open during park hours. October 17th to January 2025. There is a small catch though! You'll have to find it.
The West
I was over in my friends place in the West "what's with all those dogs barking" I asked, sounded like hundreds howling, chaotic and confined, upsetting the peaceful beautiful countryside.
"oh they're greyhounds. A guy rented a field off Ger and has started to breed them". I sighed "Jesus do you have to listen to that day and night". Nigel didn't answer. Dumb question.
A few months later when I returned. I heard the greyhound breeder had just killed himself. All was quiet. Down the village we learned. He'd a wife and young kids. They were separated. He was a gambler. He was rich at one point. And finally, that he was a nice man.
I knew that barking wasn't right, realizing their pain was really his.
Dog Hospital
SELF IMMOLATION
TV CITY
east town favelas
morning coffee
Morning Coffee
on the Ferry.
I hit the display button
machine dispensed
went to the girl.
"What is it?"
"Americano" me
"€4.25 please"
I hand her twenty
"Oh cash"
She then takes out a large calculator.
Subtracts 4.25 from 20.
"€15.75"
"Your change"
I took my change, smiled,
thanked her, thought
Jesus fucking Christ
what has technology done
to our brains.
A minute later, at the table,
staring out at the dreamy sea
it didn't matter.
"God, I need a break"
"I'm so tired"
"Is this a dream?"
Sun Songs
More sweetness, but this made think of something
"Pain" as in emotion, love, loss, grief, trauma, anger, anxiety. "don't drink" : as in any self-medication. "Rocks" : as medication, trapped weight/pain, pulling you down.
Race One Magazine, San Francisco. Limited circulation.
Rarely do art for other people. But this was a nice exercise.
5 mile Beach
Something sweet from a sweet day. The boy, the Bear, and Stray Cat x.
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Cottagecore
Prompt : Double exposure, Skinny Gynoid girl, Cottagecore, Ex-machina, Sequential.
Under Relic
Under developed. Not sure. Definitely something in it to explore.
THE STREET ZOO
Street Zoo's were very popular during the 19th Century
THE STREET ZOO
The last street Zoo in New York City.
TEMPS
"When you travel from place to place, you notice difference. When you stay in one place, you notice change" Andy Goldsworthy
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Soubrette
La Serpent, France
--sref accidents
East Congo River Basin. Midtown Manhattan.
Perplexity "As a ceramic sculpture, show me what concentrated power looks like, down thru the ages"
Desert Diffusion
"A desert is a place without expectation"
Ambiguous Machines
Down on South Street
The Trinidad Toad Festival
The Ceremony
French New Wave Generative
Wakefield Manor
Existential Treatment
Suffering from Existential Anxiety in the 19th century. You could rent a private room at Wakefield Manor. Then sit comfortably and stare out the window. The Giraffe wandering around the grounds was said to have been a very necessary part of the treatment.
1524
Generative 2024 via 1524
1524
Generative 2024 via 1524
Van Gogh
A small sign outside a museum
As an image this means nothing. As an action, in reality, walking past, a quirky surprise. The cardboard sign outside the museum is the reality where art comes from. Humility, neglect, suffering, poverty, resourcefulness and vision. All important necessary ingredients. Poverty being the most necessary defining feature. A cleansing fire. That confirms talent or complete delusion. David McDermott (pictured above) told me "Talent plus money is success" "Talent without money, is insanity".
15th Century Mask collection
Every mask Hieronymus Bosch ever made.
Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley
Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley
Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley
Arles
a morning message
To shiri
Morning message
Reading the letters this morning. From the hospital in Arles. And was thinking how he was motivated to get better. The hospital was nice in Arles. Relaxing. Peaceful. But I was thinking how we're influenced by our immediate surroundings. So he would have seen people worse off than himself. Hence be motivated not to end up like that. Plus his striving ambition kept him alive. Things he still wanted to do, stopped suicide.
The High Church
David McDermott. Oscar. And an atomized illness.
Dale Carnegie
on institutionalized artists
"Art became so institutionalized in the 20th century.
It's almost an insult to the working man coming in
off the street." Charles Bukowski
Sci Fi Poetry
The Nest | Bell Weather | Acting | Sci-Fi Poetry | Seagull | Television
stable diffusion AI
prompt > hieronymus bosch werewolf
hieronymus bosch werewolf
hieronymus bosch serial killer
hieronymus bosch at the beach
hieronymus bosch vampire
hieronymus bosch ghost
hieronymus bosch at the restaurant
hieronymus bosch vampire
hieronymus bosch chucky
hieronymus bosch on the moon
Midjourney Ai
prompt > "people eating trash, realistic" (first prompt ever, early days, 2022)
Chelsea Flower Show
Printed
Middle Age AI
Paintings
Circus Song
Paintings
Portrait
untitled
LICKA ACEN
beat cut by hand
Algorithm Facts
What's in the Food | Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff
Today
it's them | Ai
The Gate
Land Cabinet | Birkenau
EDGE WORLD
Land Cabinet | Monkey Rock
Pagan dawn
The Aether is the Presence
2015BC
A Scene
Memory ship
caught in a box
Its true, you can't hug a memory
Gate Cinema Cork | Waterfront Cork | Suzy Cork | Burnt Cork
Untitled
trapped in a room