A Portrait of a Woman & Child

madrid, spain

Portrait of a Woman & Child, Photography Art 1930s
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Portrait of a little Monkey

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Portrait of an Albino Monkey by Generative Art
Portrait of an Albino Monkey by Generative Art

Planet Transaction

cold hard cash tales of love

Graphic Novel Illustration about that cold hard effects of Capitalism, A woman giving birth.

Adventures of Mike Management

Cold games in a cold city

Graphic Novel illustrated by David Tully about life in New York City, regarding a Shady Realtor
Graphic Novel illustrated by David Tully about life in New York City, regarding a Shady Realtor
Graphic Novel illustrated by David Tully about life in New York City, regarding a Shady Realtor
Graphic Novel illustrated by David Tully about life in New York City, regarding a Shady Realtor
Graphic Novel illustrated by David Tully about life in New York City, regarding a Shady Realtor
Graphic Novel illustrated by David Tully about life in New York City, regarding a Shady Realtor

IANVS

roman god Janus, january

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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

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amoungst other amazing stories

Book about the Janus, The Roman god amoungst other Stories by David Tully

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

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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

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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.

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(The Luddites)

after thoughts

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The Mirror Test

magpie passes

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Local Processing

shift 

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Born Corsica Aug 1769 – Died Saint Helena May 1821

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THE BEZ

LO-FI SPEED CUTS

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The Village School

National Gallery of Ireland

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Notes on Art

Public Discernment

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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

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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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The Apartment

you were going ninety...

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Meanwhile in Italy

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"of course its not real"

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"She's still alive"

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H.R.Giger's Funeral

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Biomechanical coffin being lowered into a grave during a fictional funeral scene

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"

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Altonmon Street

Rose East

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"the Poison is Flowing"

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"its a sign of good health"

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TokyoToys©

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oligarchy moves indoors

inauguration 2025

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The House Boat

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an abstract fragment of something

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Midnight at the Met

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wallpaper

BUY ME A COFFEE

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"where have you been"

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GET ON IT

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speculative non fiction

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Last Nights Generative Dream

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The Yellow House

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Bruegels Mouse

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"I Love You"

I love you
I love you

Diorama Night Drama

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"This is my favorite"

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Robotic Night Sculpts

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The Birds Nest

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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

Dog Hospital

Dog Hospital

SELF IMMOLATION

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TV CITY

east town favelas

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morning coffee

Dreamy Sea

 

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"

Red Train 01

"I'm so tired"

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"Is this a dream?"

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Sun Songs

Sun Songs

More sweetness, but this made think of something

The Big Wave

"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. 

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Race One Magazine, San Francisco. Limited circulation.

HibernianGothic

Rarely do art for other people. But this was a nice exercise.

5 mile Beach

Bear&Boy

Something sweet from a sweet day. The boy, the Bear, and Stray Cat x.

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Cottagecore

Cottagecore

Prompt : Double exposure, Skinny Gynoid girl, Cottagecore, Ex-machina, Sequential.

Under Relic

True north

Under developed. Not sure. Definitely something in it to explore.

THE STREET ZOO

Street Zoo's were very popular during the 19th Century

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THE STREET ZOO

The last street Zoo in New York City. 

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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

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La Serpent, France

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--sref accidents

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East Congo River Basin. Midtown Manhattan.

The Window Tully David
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Perplexity "As a ceramic sculpture, show me what concentrated power looks like, down thru the ages"

Slave & Power
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Desert Diffusion

"A desert is a place without expectation"

Desert Wisdom

Ambiguous Machines

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Down on South Street

Down on South Street. David Tully

The Trinidad Toad Festival

The Ceremony

French New Wave Generative

Wakefield Manor

Existential Treatment

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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

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1524

Generative 2024 via 1524

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Van Gogh

A small sign outside a museum

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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.

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Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley

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Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley

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Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley

Zen Botany in the uncanny Valley

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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.

But my main thoughts are, why didn’t he paint anyone in the hospital. Patients. Like my favourite painting of all time. See the attachment. By Jean Geoffrey. I can understand his whole being is about recovery. Getting back to his life. But…. It’s almost always the case….that we don’t see what’s right in front of us.
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It’s like that movie David was in. About an Artist on the lower east side. Forgotten his name. But he had his studio. Put on shows. His work was figurative. Nothing of any note to me. He had a burning ambition for uptown fame. That’s fine. But here’s the thing. That even the movie directors didn’t see. Footage from his apartment. Out the window. Down below. You could see a men's shelter. It’s right in front of him. If he was any good. He'd see it. And paint the lives of all these people.
                                                                .
Today that's called  “Soft White Underbelly”. One of the best channels on youtube.
David Tully Visual Artist

The High Church

David McDermott. Oscar. And an atomized illness.

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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

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Sci Fi Poetry

The Nest | Bell Weather | Acting | Sci-Fi Poetry | Seagull | Television

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Acting

stable diffusion AI

prompt > hieronymus bosch werewolf

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hieronymus bosch werewolf

DavidTully_serial_killer_hieronymus_bosch

hieronymus bosch serial killer

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hieronymus bosch at the beach

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hieronymus bosch vampire

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hieronymus bosch ghost

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hieronymus bosch at the restaurant

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hieronymus bosch vampire

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hieronymus bosch chucky

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hieronymus bosch on the moon

Midjourney Ai

prompt > "people eating trash, realistic" (first prompt ever, early days, 2022)

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Chelsea Flower Show

Printed

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Middle Age AI

Paintings

Musée du Louvre

Circus Song

Paintings

Portrait

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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

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EDGE WORLD

 Land Cabinet  | Monkey Rock

Pagan dawn

The Aether is the Presence

2015BC

A Scene

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Memory ship

caught in a box

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Its true, you can't hug a memory

Gate Cinema Cork | Waterfront Cork | Suzy Cork | Burnt Cork

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trapped in a room