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Heat dome inbound, hot and sultry or is it sultry and hot or is it both (yes): a desire, again, that words dwell in this space, somewhere – small syntheses of somethings, Montaigne’s “grotesques,” etc; a desire to do my part to make the internet weird again via the half-cooked notions of a recluse talking to himself from the top of his shed.
(Will this desire continue through to tomorrow? TBD)
Today, before the heat really kicks in: finishing touches on a smaller piece that was another piece until I built the piece I was trying to build in the first place and it freed up this piece to be something different.
Tinkering (I hesitate to call it work) on a new story continues; I rather like it. Do I know what it's about? Sure, but I won't hold that against it.
metal_0126 :: chōchin'obake
A little experiment (and palette cleanser between larger installations) in delicacy that resulted in four paper lanterns giving their lives until I finally figured out how to get the metal frame with eyeball and split tongue of my little chōchin’obake (paper lantern ghost) into the paper lantern without causing too much damage.
fresh ink (a day later)!
Meant to share this yesterday but better late than never. Part one of a chest piece, a little classic Lon Chaney Jr. Wolfman, complete with perfectly buttoned shirt collar. As with all my ink, the inimitable Jess Whitmore of Painted Ivy rocked it and delivered another classic Universal Monster to my person.