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Eldritch and its origins.

The word eldritch is associated with things that are non human or otherworldly. Sometimes charming, sometimes horrifying, but always surreal.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a website and YouTube channel, created by John Koenig, that coins and defines neologisms for emotions that do not have a descriptive term.

Anemoia - n. nostalgia for a time you’ve never known

Rigor Samsa - n. a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again

Ambedo - n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details

Onism - n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time,

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Chapter 9 - BLUE

The British tend to think of woad as a war paint—a symbol of the fierceness of Ancient Britons before the Romans conquered the country nearly two thousand years ago. Finlay, Victoria. Color (p. 340). some historians have suggested that Caractacus may not have needed to paint himself from a fermenting woad vat because he was already permanently painted. (p. 343). (black on pale skin tends to go blue), (p. 344)

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Untitled Digital Painting But one of Turner’s favorite reds may well have been cinnabar— which he used in its manufactured form, vermilion, and which Pliny described as the result of an epic struggle by an elephant and a dragon. These two troublemakers were always fighting, Pliny recounted, and the battle eventually ended with the dragon—evidently a rather snaky one—wrapping its coils around its heavy enemy. But as the elephant fell it crushed the dragon with its weight and they both died. The merging of their blood made cinnabar. Finlay, Victoria. Color (p. 178). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. This short tale was entirely new to me when I read it. It created a vivid image in my mind, and as someone who loves folklore and fairytales, I was drawn to creating an illustration for this story. Untitled Acrylic paint on body, photographed T he British tend to think of woad as a war paint—a symbol of the fierceness of Ancient Britons before the Romans conquered the...

All Six

This piece, entitled All Six, consists of six pairs of fabric slippers. Each one represents a member of my immediate family. My youngest sibling is in high school and he has the shoe size of an adult man. I chose to depict our shoes as child sized, since I still cling to the image of my siblings as small kids, no matter how old we get. Downtown Saint Augustine is the landscape for this piece as it's a place full of fond memories of my family coming to visit me during my time at Flagler. While we never came to Saint Augustine as children, that childlike image of us, as we explored the city with our parents for the first time is one I hold dear. While this is my personal connection to the work, I also wanted to create a certain level of anonymity with the empty shoes, that could represent anyone from tourists roaming through the city, to a loved one you once walked with, but now only have memories of. The bottom of each shoe and closeup of stitching. My Mom walking on the fort. My ...

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