Arno Rafael Minkkinen. Aere River, Berne, Switzerland, 1975.

Galerie Camera obscura.

I think my aquariums haunted

unnamed for @888-fr

Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

And one thought in passing: those of you who followed him for his Caturday posts, please make tomorrow special in his memory by tagging them #GNU Peter Morwood. I don't know if he had anything already queued up: he often didn't do that until quite late on Friday nights. But there will be no more of those...

The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI.

THERE IS NO OPT-OUT.

FUCK SOUNDCLOUD.

🐚Shellmaid🐚 . Some mermaids manifest with a beautiful fish tail, to help them glide through the water with grace and playfulness. But this one curled her tail up into a rigid shell, protecting herself from anything that could harm her. Her tail is still lovely, reflecting a rainbow of lights- yet she can’t swim with ease like the others. Who could she be if only she could cast off the armor? . This painting started off as a study of an iridescent shell! I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t drawn to the magical sparkle of iridescence. Hope you enjoy this #mermay offering!