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This is a portrait of my cat Rex, as a squitten. His new nickname will be T-Rex. Tentacle Rex.

I had fun with this one, although I don’t know how I feel about the fact that the only portrait I have ever painted of my cat Rex is him as a squitten.

Anyways, thanks/ no thanks to my friend/ sudo-brother for this horrible idea. It truly is.

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“Horror cannot be spoken because it is alive; because it is silent and is going forward; it drips into the day and it drips into sleep. Sorrow-recalling pain.”

— George Seferis, tr. by Rex Warner, from Selected Poems; “Last Stop,”

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https://twitter.com/agentsaba/status/1021807150836928514?s=19

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The Great Djaolang

design from scrapped book/zine project

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Jigsaw puzzle depicting two sailing vessels. In the foreground is a vessel prepared for wintering in the Arctic, a whale and an explorer being chased by a polar bear. The title: ‘THE SORCERER OF THE NORTH POLE OR CAPTAIN ROSS’S VISION’ is printed in the lower right. The jigsaw is made up of 70 pieces with one missing. Made 1819

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Ville en Bord de Mer au Clair de Lune, 1876, Jules-Achille Noël

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Some interesting information on Articles.

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A deepstaria jellyfish, a shape shifter. Some more real world inspiration to draw on.

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MORAN, Thomas (1837-1926)

Fiercely the Red Sun Descending, Burned His Way across the Heavens (inv.) circa 1875 Oil on canvas, 84.77 x 127.16 cm North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

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"Inspired by a true story, The Terror centers on the British Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, The Terror highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other." This show is set in the 1800s but even so...Topical maybe? A source of inspiration maybe?

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag concept art by Maxime Desmettre

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by Felix Sjödahl

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For the sake of research!

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Additional lamprey love

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This man and everything he stands for, for me, has been the inspiration behind looking deeper into the early 18th century. Ultimately, I was inspired to explore it in my writing. I am fascinated by identity and personhood, how we define ourselves and how the labels pressed into us shapes us and our thinking.

So how does the absence of a language to describe a way of being affect those who don’t yet exist in the English language? How does the combination wordlessness and the pressures of society affect your understanding of self?

And now, add the unknowable. Alien creatures that live below the water’s surface and that are only sometimes glimpsed. Imagine the horror of having a predator approach you and it has no eyes, no discernible senses and it moves in a way that is alien to you. Stripped of all the rules of the world as you understand it....what next?

Humans grappling with themes and powers well beyond their understand, that smash the structure of their reality? That to me is endlessly fascinating.

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