#paracosmic

[tempestt444]

Oc-Tober Day 6: Past

Test tube baby K!!

I’m trying to get better at painting with values and stuff and thought I’d make a fun little picture of K. Bro spent the first 14ish years of his life in a clone pod before waking up in the middle of nowhere. This definitely dosent give him any sort of issues whatsoever : ]

School starts up for me after tomorrow so let’s see how well I follow the future prompts lol.

[illusoryvice]

Bunny (last name unknown)

[pluralpedia-iceberg]

Paracosmic

cool

[mrscoultxr]

"How was your expedition?" Linda had breakfast spread out on the table before them, plucking at some grapes while her eyes were trained on Marisa. "Sylvia seems to have had enough of snow for a while." She couldn't help the little smile on her lips as she popped another grape into her mouth

Mrs. Coulter dropped a cube of sugar into her tea and stirred it idly. The weariness had not yet left her face, the change of time zones still catching up with her. Her bones felt stiff, her body begged for more activity. She simply could not stay sitting very long, but if she were to continue to work, she would collapse from exhaustion. She knew herself too well. The golden monkey had perched nearby in the room, laying rather languidly across a chaise lounge. He hardly ever seemed to relax, and even though his behavior might give off the impression of basking in his inactivity, his eyes were as sharp and attentive to the situation as ever. 

“Fruitful,” Mrs. Coulter replied, taking a small sip of her tea and delighting in the warmth cupped between her hands. She breathed just a bit easier afterwards. “We have found the perfect place to construct our research facility. The ice is strong, the aurora was clear. Yes,” she sighed, a laugh laced through her tone, “it all went rather smoothly. I’d be remiss if I did not state I could have stayed there even longer, but there is still much to be done.” She takes another sip of her tea, then places it down onto the table and looks Lady Linda in the eyes. “And what about you? How have things been since I’ve been away? Nothing too dramatic has happened, I hope.”

[system-society]

Paragenic Flag Moodboard!

Requested by @seabvnnny

Made by Mod Thunder! Free to use with credit ^^

[beblake]

After finishing with the Promised Neverland anime, did you ever move on to the manga at all?

oh yeah, i’m all caught up in the manga!! i can’t believe it’s gonna end soon, i’m dying i have no idea how they’re gonna wrap this up 

[tempestt444]

Oc-Tober Day 4: Under Appreciated OC

Today was my birthday and this week was a bit packed because of that but I still managed to whip something up! This is Leshy aka “the hermit” they’re sort of the biggest mentor figure in Ks life so it’s a little wild I don’t do more art of them??? I definitely need to draw them more anyways.

Leshy is a sort of parental figure for K during the first leg of his journey, it’s kind of funny they both sort of haven’t spoken to a actual person in several years and so a lot of their interactions are very fun to write, Leshy as a whole is a character I need to flesh out more, being so instrumental in the first arc of the story and just also being fun to draw.

Also a bit of lore about paracosmic, Leshy is a species of alien called Arborians, which is a general term for the range of species that once lived in “the grove” star system. The subspecies Leshy is in particular is essentially a feline/fungus sort of thing? They’re like mostly humanoid but are also sort of a plant if you squint. Which is not to uncommon for Arborian species since they come from a planet which is basically a giant tree. (Hence the name)

[illusoryvice]

My three styles: kind of chibi, chibi (not shown) and chibi chibi. Here's Elena!

[kramcup]

Team 29's unsinkable creation 🛥☀🌊 #JVU #k2e #kerwinrae #paracosmic #hawaii (at Magic Island Lagoon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2yvqGWpozJ/?igshid=e65qkpt6qxja

[rhiannonkagoe]

Amazing experience last night. I never thought I'd be exhibiting my work under a church! 

[artotate]

Paracosmic Sun at BGP

How much of what we see is actual? How much is fabricated? What possibilities for being, or communing with each other, might be affected if less normative sights were given more regard?

These questions come from the Paracosmic Sun exhibition write up, they introduce us to the essence of Annie Briard‘s ongoing investigations into enigmatic visual perception. Briard presents exhibition visitors with an opulent array of optical propositions.

Exhibiting at Back Gallery Project until March 7, Paracosmic Sun serves as a compendium of experiment results, most of which were produced last year by Briard whilst at an artist residency in Cadiz, Spain. During her tenure in Cadiz, Briard explored the many viewpoints that the city offered onto the water.

A southwestern port city, Cadiz is known for its large number of watchtowers, many of them still standing. Briard brought with her prisms that she had collected from binoculars, telescopes and other devices. She surveyed the many vantage points of the ancient city from the watchtowers through her sourced lenses.

In her research leading up to the residency Briard explored early scientific theories on how the human eye works. There have been many interesting and often outlandish ideas on how we see. In our discussion, Briard highlighted one such idea that made an impression on her – the notion that there was a crystal in the eye which allowed one to see. A few centuries later, knowledge and experimentation has revealed that the eye works differently.  Conceptually though, the idea wasn’t all that far off. After all, as Briard pointed out, the word crystal can still be found in reference to vision. Crystallin, for example, is the name of the transparent protein that is found in the lens and cornea of the eye. A mystical example of something that we don’t ‘see’, which actually enables sight.

The work in Paracosmic Sun projects and presents multiple temporal states simultaneously, states of seeing and not seeing, and also states where sight extends beyond the normal range or perception. One can see sunlight on the ocean, or the effect of light on the ocean reflected back through a prismatic lens, or one can see a paracosm. Three instances coalesced into a singular image.

Bringing awareness to multiple versions of a present state is something Briard frequently achieves in her work. For example, Horizon RGB at Back Gallery Project is a still object containing a fixed two-dimensional image of a horizon line. The work is activated so that it seems to be moving through Briard’s implementation of light phasing.

This work grew into its own state of being after Briard was unable to reproduce, to her standards, the perfect gradients that appear during sunsets in a single photograph. The prints weren’t cutting it, so she explored alternative ways of seeing gradients and the horizon. Mesmerizing to watch, this light-box installation conjures similar affective qualities to that of looking at a real-life sunset, the pulsating light allows your eyes and mind to explore the ethereal atmosphere of gradients shifting, whilst every once in a while the horizon line comes back into focus.

Briard’s film and video work highlights the tension between still and moving just as her photography works does, in fact they’re often interconnected in a recursive loop, one that is created to intentionally muddle memory and imagination. Should these formats come up short, Briard often finds alternative unique ways of representing time-space-sight-awareness.

A pragmatic interpretation of the exhibition would be that Briard’s imagery focuses on particular points at which the lens that she was experimenting with started breaking down the components of clear singular vision. Paracosmically speaking, Briard has uncovered shimmering colourful doppelgangers that were magically captured using mysterious holographic prisms.

Is what you are seeing actual or fabricated…allow your eyes to reveal and your mind to wander. Paracosmic Sun is on exhibit at Back Gallery Project until March 7th, 2017.

Back Gallery Project will also host an in-conversation event with Annie Briard and Manuel Piña onSaturday February 25th at 2pm.  Briard and Piña will discuss the work in the show, along with ideas surrounding perception, photography and technology. The talk is open to the public.

Work from this series entitled Paracosmic Land can also be seen on one of the public art columns at Aberdeen Canada Line Station. Artists Michael Love and Paolo Majano also have work on the columns at Lansdowne Station as part of the same call. The work of all three artists will be up from February until July, 2017. The project is part of the City of Richmond’s Public Art Programin collaboration with Capture Photography Festival 2017.

Annie Briard PARACOSMIC SUN February 8 – March 7, 2017 Back Gallery Project: 602 E Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1R1

**This article originally appeared online for Vancouver Is Awesome. (February 2017)

[tempestt444]

K!! gah my favorite son the light of my life, yeah I know he kind of looks like Keith from Voltron if you squint this ref is from a different time ok? :P

[kramcup]

Working & enjoying paradise the K2 Elite way. #JVU #entrepreneur #kerwinrae #k2e #paracosmic (at Tiki's Grill & Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2vwX_JpC3-/?igshid=grcucvozk73d

[brooklynsoul61]

Always looking for light. Charcoal drawing #contemporaryart #paracosmic #soho20 #bushwickartgalleries #nancyrodrigoart #contemporarydrawing #queerart #feministsurrealism (at SOHO20 Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx7aL5flbdO/?igshid=ym1fsaks7pid