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ant core

acrylic on paper 21x21cm

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Harakiri, 2013 - by Seyo Cizmic (1958), Bosnian & Herzegovinian / American

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Will You Look at the Stars

(Spotted Garden Eels in their Extraterrarium)

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Punk Slug Friends.

パンクなナメ友。

Arrested! 捕まった！

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Phantom Squid

It’s available for purchase at Boris Zakkaten gallery and their online shop: https://higuchiyuko.tokyo/collections/hinemizushima

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Erosion by Tamsin van Essen. Who knew parasitic invasion could be so beautiful?

van Essen on her project:

This work explores erosion and the disruption of form. Focusing on biological erosion, I wanted to convey the idea of a host being attacked and eaten away by a parasitic virus, highlighting the creeping spread of the infection as it corrupts the body. I have produced a series of angular porcelain forms, sandblasted to wear the surface and reveal inner strata. This aggressive process, contrarily, creates a delicate vulnerability in the shape. The translucency of the porcelain and the interruption of the surface make it possible to glimpse through to layers beneath, creating a tension between the seen and the obscured.

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Underground is a weird place

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🐟🐟🌕🐟🐟🐟🐟 // swallowtail shiners // gouache on hot press paper

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Ancient Sea Creature Diorama - Anomalocaris (Cambrian Period).

古代海洋生物ジオラマ - アノマロカリス (カンブリア紀)。

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They’re hanging out :]

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i wish we had more time

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There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

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Allison aka: Mariella Anderlini’s cover painting for the 1974 Italian ed. of Time’s Last Gift by Philip José Farmer

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Chronicles in Amber (Italian editions) by Roger Zelazny

Cover art by Mariella Anderlini under the pseudonym Allison

Libra Editrice, 1978-1980

Chronicles in Amber back to back you might be saying? YES! Do you see how gorgeous Mariella Anderlini's covers are? Have I gotten lost staring at le armies di avalon? MAYBE!?

I couldn't not share them once I found them on this wonderful blog while digging through some of the publication history of Zelazny's books.

I get the sense that I'm about to deep dive into Italian sci-fi/fantasy art. I am so excited.

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News Reporter France, photo by Gian Paolo Barbieri, June 1977

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Sea Ranch Flowers , Blue - Helen Gotlib

American , b. 1981 -

Woodblock and intaglio printing on white BFK paper Reves , 35.5 x 23.5 in.

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today's bird is this Common Swift! this CRAZY photo was taken by Eden Davies from the uk. (image was pulled from reddit in r/Birdsfacingforward)