nightmare machines (two different ones)

Somehow stumbled on to my new favourite artist, Carlijn Kingma, who does these huge and insanely intricate hand-drawn econo-political allegory… things? De machinerie van de volkshuisvesting (or, The Machinery of Housing), Kingma, 2025 Well worth clicking through to her site and checking them out closely; you’ve got to see the detail to really appreciate the work. I’ve taken to following a bunch of feeds in an effort to get myself at least vaguely abreast of contemporary art, but I guess I must be a philistine, because well over 80% of it looks like half-hearted amateur trash to me? But every now and again something glorious or beautiful or deeply weird pops up. This deeply cursed object is in the last of those three categories, like something that dropped out of a meat-sweats nightmare: The Heart of My Machine is Golden Lead, Lee, 2026 What does it mean? I’ve no idea—but at least in this case, the thing invites interpretation (or, equally, a frantic retreat to the gift shop) without…