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the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

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"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burned the topless towers of Ilium?" - Marlowe

Helen standing at the wall of Troy looking out at the camps of the Greek. The pattern of the dress depicts a fight scene inspired by black figure pottery

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love david and goliath being like one of the main bible stories for kids. like yeah you might be small but with god on your side you can kill someone with a rock

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i should have been born a flamboyant aesthete fag in the early 20th century so i could go to audacious parties and write mediocre poetry and die of alcohol poisoning at 32 without having contributed anything to society except serving cunt in a fur coat and semiregular emotional breakdowns

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Study of Gustave Moreau's "Jacob and the Angel".

$90

Watercolour on paper

8x8 inches

July 2023

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Narcissus.

$90

Watercolour on paper

8x8 inches

July 2023

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There's gotta be at least 49 frogs

$90

Watercolour on paper

8x8 inches

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biblically accurate jellyfish

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Fay Ku (Taiwanese, 1974) - Throne (2016)

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Summer Evening

$90

Watercolour and ink on paper

8x8 inches

April 2023

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The Serpent

Woman

Cold blue burning magenta

A rest heavy like lead, like icy shores

Rushing, writhing, grasping, curling

Some believe that the world is circled

By a giant snake eating his own tail-

The edge of the universe,

The edge of knowing,

The edge of water.

There is green and teal and white

Dappled light on foam, on fur, on skin.

Silver eyes like the shimmer of metal,

The sheen of insect wings

Spirals are a sacred symbol of the soul,

The turn of the gaze,

the swirl of a snails shell.

She.

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Baking Bread

I'm very tired

But I want to make.

I will bake honeycakes

In the shape of deer

What do I need?

Sesame seeds, flour, eggs.

To cut them and shape them

I reckon the sharp knife will do.

When I go outside tonight I will find some stones

To knock her down-

Who?

You know, my wife the moon.

I need her light, and some stars too

If I want the deer to taste sweet--

I probably need sugar.

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Hazel sighs in a harsh wind

It's branches shift against the unruly bramble,

And flowers curl inward to protect themselves.

In the distance a boat sways on the open sea,

The dark red vision of him heaving seaweed

onto the salty deck is nestled

Under a blooming sky--

Horizon bowed like a spoon tucking away the sun.

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Christine Sefolosha (Swiss, 1955) - La Dispute (2013)

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Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up

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Earthly Eros Defeating Heavenly Eros

Inspired by Giovanni Baglione's "Divine Eros Defeating Earthly Eros" (1602), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.

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A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, to let the warm love in!, from Ode to Psyche for John Keats' Poems by Robert Anning Bell (1897)