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#FaustianFriday In Bistritz, Harker is warned: at midnight on St. George’s Day ‘all the evil things in the world will have full sway’. An allegorical prolepsis of the novel’s climax: St George (patron saint of England) vs the dragon Dracula - also ‘devil’. Self in fear the Other.
Inspired by the discussion of fairies, butterflies, and death, here’s my contribution to #IllMetMakeover . Very much enjoying the #GothicFairies #OGOMCon2021 conference and had fun with this creative makeover activity 🧚♀️ 🦋 ☠️
Quick digital painting (Procreate) to mark the fact the fact that I’ve emerged from an awful migraine, and feel as I’ve achieved something today.
‘ominous bird of yore’.. trying to come out of a creative dry spell with this little raven drawing in digital charcoal
Not ‘cunning moss’, but still ‘all overgrown’. Nature growing into abandoned architecture near Figeac, France.
‘The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms’
A little experiment I was working on reminded me of Baudelaire’s lines: ‘J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des cygnes; / Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes’