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Another crosspost from my public-facing blog, and an accompanying piece to the last.

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Cross-posted from ma public blog. Most followers here already know the context.

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Jose Luis Ágreda  -  https://twitter.com/JLAgreda  -  https://www.flickr.com/photos/agreda  -  http://agredablog.com  -  http://www.joseluisagreda.com/agreda/Home.html

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Scars #1 - Angel, System Host

A series of simplistic portraits of each of my system mates. In place of each person’s face is the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard them say. Here, the subjects of this series are stripped from their identities, reduced only to their traumas and in-system roles, the very way in which singlets reduce the identities of individual system mates in similar fashion. However, there remains a degree of individuality to each subject - even as part of a greater collective, it becomes apparent that each system mate has struggles and personal histories that are entirely unique to them.

#this one is a bit rushed because I had to finish it before running off to work

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Gerald Scarfe’s art for Pink Floyd’s THE WALL (1979).

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Deep-sea angler fish mermaid poster from the Italian film: Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973)

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Dark

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Backpfeifengesicht n 1. (colloquial) a slappable face, a face “in need of a slap”

“Watcher Fucking Grigori had such an insufferable backpfeifengesicht that all the other angels threw him out of heaven, so now he torments Mr. Pentagram instead.”

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Thunderbird

The Thunderbird appears in many Native American legends and is said to be larger than a condor. 

Some said that the Thunderbird accompanied thunderstorms and that lightning flashed from its eyes. It was said to feed on killer whales. Some called it Piasa, or ‘devourer of man’ and believed the bird required sacrifices or it would attack a whole community.

The Ojibway of Lake Superior said that a Thunderbird fought with Mishipishu, a snake like monster of the lake. In more recent time, the Sioux Medicine Man, John (Fire) Lame Deer told of the Thunderbird and said that the he believed that they had gone to the furthest parts of the earth, unhappy with the dirty and impure civilization of the whites. 

Sightings of the thunderbird go back centuries and fossil records have shown that birds with wing spans between 12 and 18 ft existed alongside early man.

SOURCE

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Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.

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Monsters from Shigeru Mizuki’s 1981 “Yōkai Encyclopedia”: Koboku-no-kai (tree spirits); Umibōzu (sea demons); satori (mountain goblins); and ōnyūdō, or “large monk”.

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Raven. The dictionary of daily wants. 1859.

Internet Archive

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New painting - ‘howl’ acrylic on canvas

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Wrong Deer

On a deer farm in Minnesota about an hour and a half from Eden Prairie, a mysterious illness began to spread throughout the herd.

Officials deemed that all 2500 head of deer on the ranch be destroyed, but after the cull was completed only 2499 carcasses could be accounted for.

At this time the public is asked to respect quarantine areas, call the designated tip line if you see anything unusual, and are reminded that under no circumstances is it permissible to enter the fenced areas.

(Original ink on paper, has already sold)

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L’oeuf (The Egg). 1885.

By French artist, Odilon Redon. Redon was a relatively unknown artist until the publication of cult novel À rebours (1884), in which a character appears that collects his works.

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Plague Doctor masks based off of different birds

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This post is for Wenona.

Andreae Alciati, Emblemata, 1548

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