Be wary of little treasures.
There is always a price.
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Dziady, Zaduszki, or the Slavic day of the dead was celebrated in autumn, when it was believed the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead was the thinnest. On that day the souls of the dead would return to earth, and the living would burn fires to light their way home, they would throw feasts where they'd share food with them, and they did their best not to hurt them with their everyday activities; sudden moves and housework involving sharp objects were avoided, as to not to hurt the soul that could be standing nearby. To communicate with the souls, people would don ceremonial masks--kraboszki (sing. kraboszka), that represented the dead ancestors.
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What’s a funerary practice to the damned?
His flesh finally mine, though not in the way I wanted.
What’s a prayer through the lips of the cursed?
I moved in human ways once.
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I'm ✨ALIVE✨ (at least temporarily) and I brought you some ✨PICTURES✨
You might remember our definitely-not-Strahd guy Kirill.
That's him again! My fellow @lacyfishhh seemed to miss this fella, so I drew him as a birthday gift for her.
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Yaga from the Bald Mountain
Here’s a mock-cover illustration for a story I made up about a young girl Yaga leading a double life as a Slavic witch in training and a modern teenager. I wanted to explore the idea of how Baba Yaga came to be the powerful witch we know from fairytales, and how her story would play out in the modern setting. The mountain in the back is supposed to be the Bald Mountain, where according to legends, witches held their sabbaths. I was heeeeavily inspired by the Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin. It was fascinating to analyse how he painted forests, and how he applied gradients in the art nouveau style. The decorative frame however has motifs taken from traditional Polish cut-outs.
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