#self portraits are self reflection

[dreamspelunker]

So I just unearthed a self-portrait I did in early 2021 and...um...well...😅 This pretty much captures it, huh? I'd like to see AI generate this level of psychological horror. For contrast, the second image is a self-portrait I did in 2019, before Ragnarök began. Crazy.

[grendel-menz]

your best american girl

[soybean-official]

What's going to happen to me now?

[thecolorblindarchive]

My big sister said I looked "cool" so here you go

Self Portrait of me in Brooklyn when I was still young enough to be fascinated by my disorders

[o-link]

[vivibene1]

“Flaws are human, and the attraction of art is the humanity held in it. If we were machine like, the art wouldn’t resonate. It would be soulless.” ~Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

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[viridian-pickle]

[ramonasphotos]

My top 5 of this year

Thanks to @allthingsfern and @luxlit for hosting it again

While last year's top 5 were very colourful this year they are mostly black and white.

[mantimae]

And then I made the tragic mistake of listening to Bo Burnham’s song 30.

[meirimerens]

the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

[grendel-menz]

i want to hold myself as a baby

[archerinventive]

"Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other." -Paulo Coelho 

[theftshrubbery]

i am newly grown

[vivibene1]

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[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Self-portrait in elevator doors

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 2/16/14

[ramonasphotos]

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