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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

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— Lana Del Rey; Cinnamon Girl

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We should all quit our jobs to focus on summer

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Hellraiser - Clive Barker (1987)

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Chiesa del Gesù di Casa Professa. Palermo

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Odilon Redon (1840-1916) - Frontispiece from Iwan Gilkin’s 'Tenebres' (Darkness), 1892

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Street Samurai

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from Cavalier Magzine (June 1965) 

illustration: Robert E. McGinnis

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Red Sky - Ryan Bittner

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Renge 蓮華-2016

Oils, acrylics, metal leaf, resin and mixed media on wood panel.

This piece is from my solo show “Takane no Hana” which exhibited at Twist Gallery in Toronto February 2016.

For purchase and inquiries contact Allison Thompson at Artlinkcanada@outlook.com

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Vader

Art by Colin Craker

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Until 2016

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Started reading The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville & Keanu Reeves. Had to take a break and paint B/Unute about whom I have a totally regular normal amount of feelings.