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whale fall 🦴

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me talking in the tags on tumblr dot com

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"Oh look love, how you've changed me."

New for the BOXED series, the salmon! Available now on my INPRINT!

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Cuddling. don’t mind the claws of the beast

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A heart’s a heavy burden to bear

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so badass........

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Another big bug from the BOXED series - you can a print or sticker of it in my INPRINT store - check it here!

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seahorse fursona ig

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Atlantic Mackerel earring commission from 2023

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[ID: Photos of a framed clay rectangular relief sculpture of a bison inspired by the Palaeolithic paintings of Lascaux. It starts on the left/hindquarters as a cave painting and then becomes more realistic and higher relief to the right/front. The head is 3D and turned outward. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

This piece will be available on my shop on Thursday 6th February 8PM GMT. Shop link

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[ID: Photos of a unpainted clay sculpture of a przewalski's horse, standing in a neutral pose. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

First piece of 2025. 1 hour horse study. This is the largest horse I've made so far.

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[ID: Photos of a painted relief sculpture of two overlapping horses facing the opposite direction with their heads turned to look back at each other. They are inspired by the palaeolithic paintings of Lascaux. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

Trying out slightly larger panels. This piece will be available on my shop on Thursday 6th February 8PM GMT. Shop link

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[ID: Photos of a painted relief sculpture of an aurochs and a horse based on a painting from Lascaux. Each figure has a 3D head turned outwards. The horse's front legs are represented by a curving line of dots, which both turn at a right angle and extend beyond where the legs would normally end. There is a branching symbol extending from the aurochs' back. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

Another larger panel. This piece will be available on my shop on Thursday 6th February 8PM GMT. Shop link

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I am going to take this as an opportunity to run with the wildest small world incident I've experienced.

My mom was born and raised in the Philippines (missionary parents). A fair amount of that time was spent at a boarding school for missionary kids.

All sorts of hilarious shenanigans lead to my parents meeting, marrying, and traveling the world together. They ultimately decided on settling down in a specific area in the rocky mountains. Neither had ties to the location of any sort, they just thought it was beautiful.

Then, around 35ish years later, I was attending a small highschool in a small and generally unknown town in rural Colorado. We had a substitute teacher in one of my classes one day. He introduced himself and his teaching experience- mentioning a boarding school in the Philippines. I asked if he knew the [Mom's Original Surname] family.

My aunt was his favorite student.

several years ago i became mutuals with someone on tiktok who ended up moving to the island where i lived by sheer coincidence, so we got to hang out! tonight i'm working on an article i was hired to write about a historical event, and i was trying to figure out the nautical route the people in the article took in the 1920s. i googled the route, and an article by that same friend was the very first result, about their own, completely unrelated trip along the same route a couple years ago as a wilderness guide. it's a small, serendipitous world!

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I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

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cleared so hard