I doodled this, and then my darling partner @candywrites made it better with their coloring <3
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Art by Michael Zulli
Fellow art lovers, we need to talk about this one…
I love Zulli (as many of you might have noticed by now), but this one’s got me stumped. Because we know everything in his art has meaning, up to the tiniest detail.
What am I looking at here? We see the ruins again, which are a recurring theme in Zulli’s work (e.g. in the painting with Dream, Death and Hob. I’ll talk about that one separately soon because I think interpretations have been “retconned” a bit to make it fit what people want to see in the show, instead of looking at the deeper symbolism).
But what are the ruins referencing in this case? And what is he wearing? What time reference/frame are we looking at? Medieval (the sort of over tunic makes one think so)? Why the holes in his trousers?
This one is hovering on that eerie spectrum between court jester and priest garb-wise, and I’m trying to make sense of it. I even thought about archetypes and tarot cards, the Fool and the Hierophant/High Priest specifically. The latter might not be as obvious to some, but as a lapsed Catholic and now resident family heathen, I can’t look at the green/purple overtunic and not see a priest’s stole/chasuble and cincture. Green is for pretty ordinary times, but purple is always lent and passiontide, sacrament of reconciliation and the dead. And the fact there’s also a lot of red in there (Good Friday, all the martyr’s days), but no white unless we count the holes (white would be actual Easter and the resurrection) also makes me think. Quite possibly overthink 🤣
The Fool is always the protagonist of the story (oh, Morpheus would not agree with that, but of course we all know he has his own story, even if he pretends he doesn’t). And he then goes on his journey. And apparently falls apart (ruins and tattered clothes)?
The Hierophant gives me connotations of the balance between law/rules and freedom (many decks even have symbols for that in the actual card). It also makes me think of righteousness, keeping things in order, sometimes captivity.
And all of these make sense in certain ways. As does the sunset/autumnal feel. This one is really, really interesting, and I feel there’s more in there.
What is everyone thinking?
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If only you two never left my side...
Here's my half of a collab I did with @shikariiin! She's an amazing artist with pretty art and a cool AU, so check her out if you can! Our collab's based on this base and Edward was our main subject.
Speaking of which, whoever could those hands be? Well, let's just say the Big Engine Strike was not a good time for poor Edward...
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Little Christmas gift to my partner 🎁❤️
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I don't know. if you take requests. but the idea of trans zoro isn't leaving my head no matter what I do. please call an ambulance (and make something if you'd like . no pressure have a great day) just throwing it out there...
Man enough people are already out here drawing trans zoro like it's their job (which it should be) for you to not have to send people random requests for free art
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