Steve Ammidown

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Recent work

Image of the cover of No Ordinary Love by Monique Gilman. A light-skinned Black woman with long curls looks at the the viewer as a Black man in a dress shirt stands behind her, looking at her hand.2026-08-05♥ 30 ↗Dark blue stair treads with white risers and wooden finials. 2026-07-28♥ 25 ↗A set of wooden stairs that is painted dark blue on the left side and is bare wood on the right. 2026-07-25♥ 23 ↗Garden of Hosta plants with a green and white metal sign that reads “Hostas of The Year”.2026-07-22♥ 10 ↗Screenshot reads: “ROMANCE WORLD, 929 E. Main St., El Cajon When bookseller Don Shultz opened Romance World six years ago, it was the only store of its kind in the nation, according to Romantic Times magazine. Today, clients all across the county --and country -- buy and trade its mostly used stock of about 30,000 romance novels. In the tiny store in a strip mall just east of the intersection of Main and Mollison, paperback titles, grouped by imprint or author, fill floor-to-ceiling shelves. Current titles beckon from a center display and a token "Men's Corner" of science fiction and thrillers is tucked in the back. What's hot? "Paranormal romances," said manager Rita Cope. "I have seven or eight shelves of them, and as fast as I fill them, they go out."2026-07-20♥ 21 ↗Image of Rodri about to lift the World Cup trophy in front of his ecstatic teammates and coach. No extraneous political figures are visible.2026-07-19♥ 10 ↗Screenshot reads “424 - Hazardous Air quality index is 424, which is similar to yesterday at about this time.” 2026-07-17♥ 8 ↗Screenshot reads: “421 - Hazardous Air quality index is 421, which is worse than yesterday at about this time.” 2026-07-16♥ 7 ↗Cover of “Wild Rain” by Beverly Jenkins. A Black man and woman embrace in a field as a dazzling sunset happens behind them. She is in a white button down shirt that is falling off her shoulder, and tan riding pants. He is also in a white button down shirt falling off his shoulder, with black pants. She has a long dark braid down her back, he is bald. 2026-07-02♥ 11 ↗Two paperbacks on a green corduroy fabric.2026-06-27♥ 27 ↗Titus Kaphar WATCHING TIDES RISE Oil and tar on canvas, 2012 The 2019 TMA Board of Directors recognizes this work in honor of Director Brian Kennedy and his efforts to both develop strengths and expand directions in the permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 2018.25 Titus Kaphar's art challenges established art history and who it represents. Kaphar begins his works by either copying or recreating a painting in the style of 17th- to 19th-century American and European masters. He then stages interventions directly on the canvas by tarring, slashing, silhouetting, whitewashing, or erasing parts of his paintings to introduce new and hidden narratives, exposing the racial exclusions and inequities in our constructed stories of the past. In this epic seascape in the tradition of early 19th-century American and 17th-century Dutch marine painting (see Willem van de Velde's Ships on a Stormy Sea in this galley), the wind propels a six-sailed ship toward the viewer. The painted illusion, however, is literally folding in on itself. The canvas has been removed from the stretcher in the upper left corner, exposing the blank wall. Kaphar has also coated the lower portion of his painting in tar, an evocative material he has used in a variety of ways in his works, including to conceal and to emphasize. These interventions disrupt the illusion both in Kaphar's seascape and in the telling of history itself from a primarily white, male, Eurocentric perspective. What connections between song and painting do you find?2026-06-21♥ 26 ↗Plain tan book cover with text “Unpopular Opinions- Twenty-one Essays- by Dorothy L. Sayers”2026-06-13♥ 39 ↗Black and white photo by Monte Fresco of footballer Vinnie Jones reaching back and grabbing Paul Gascoine by the crotch. Jones looks furious. Gaza looks um, surprised? Added text next to Jones that reads “What we want from Democrats” and text next to Gascoine that reads “What we keep getting”.2026-05-30♥ 7 ↗Screenshot reads: “Last Monday, America's Test Kitchen decimated its staff, laying off at least 10% of employees— both union and non-union. More than 20 people from nearly every department and level of seniority were let go. Some had served the company for decades; with them went irreplaceable institutional knowledge, honed skill, and heart that can never be regained. We are devastated at the loss of our brilliant, talented colleagues, and we will channel that grief and anger into our next contract. The union is here to support one another in good times and bad. Get involved.” 2026-05-27♥ 12 ↗A black masking tape dispenser, similar to a regular tape dispenser, with a cup in the back to hold two sharpie pens. 2026-04-21♥ 35 ↗Cover of The Midas Touch by Katherine Kendall. The couple is on a boat in a tight embrace. The blonde woman in a yellow one piece has one hand wrapped around the back of his head and the other around his back. The mustachioed dark haired man is shirtless and has one hand around her back and the other gripping her right shoulder hard, for some reason? It’s a lot. 2026-04-10♥ 17 ↗Cover of Wishtree by Katherine Applegate. We are looking at the lower trunk of a red oak tree in pale moonlight. Bits of cloth are tied around many of its branches. A crow, owl and possum can be seen in its branches.2026-04-10♥ 28 ↗Artwork by Steve Ammidown▶ video2026-02-01♥ 33 ↗Image from digital weather station where the temperature reads -0.6 degrees.2026-01-29♥ 4 ↗Artwork by Steve Ammidown2026-01-17♥ 3 ↗Artwork by Steve Ammidown2026-01-17♥ 2 ↗Artwork by Steve Ammidown2026-01-17♥ 4 ↗Artwork by Steve Ammidown2026-01-17♥ 4 ↗Artwork by Steve Ammidown▶ video2025-12-23♥ 17 ↗

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Vivant (sans bon). Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history. Every story deserves to be heard. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com

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