audio: "zeitgeist" composed & performed by srs
"untitled" oil on canvas 45 cm x 55 cm give or take a few mm. painted by srs. an earlier work, if not in fact downright early. claimed by CAS. text exists somewhere
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NIGHTMERRIES: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS This so-called "book" will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you twitching and frothing on the carpet. More than 60 dark and feculent fictions (read ‘em and weep) copiously illustrated by over 20 grotesque images you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
AWAREWOLF & OTHER CRHYMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Vot could be Verse?) We all hate poetry, right? But we might make an exception for this sick and twisted stuff. This devil's banquet of adults-only offal features more than 50 satanic sonnets, vitriolic verses and odious odes.
MANIC MEMES & OTHER MINDSPACE INVADERS A disturbing repository of quotably quirky quotes, sayings, proverbs, maxims, ponderances, adages and aphorisms. This menagerie holds no fewer than 184 memes from eight meme-species perfectly adapted to their respective environments.
MASTRESS & OTHER TWISTED TAILS, ILLUSTRATED: an unholy corpus of oddities, strangelings, bizarritudes and peculiaritisms
FIENDS & FREAKS Adults-only Tales of Serpents, Dragons, Devils, Lobsters, Anguished Spirits, Gods, Anti-gods and Other Horse-thieves You Wouldn't Want to Meet in a Dark Kosmos: 4th Edition
HAGS TO HAGGIS Whiskey-soaked Tails of War-nags, Witches, Manticores and Escapegoats, Debottlenecking and Desilofication, Illustrated
The red is very impressive and I'm drawn into the "peep holes." I also like the words. If I could pull the constant chatter out of my head, it would look something like this, although this is more beautiful.
I try and let the painting emerge, to let it speak for itself, but when it gets too cheeky I have to resort to the palette knife. ;=)
see, they've even got me doing it now, the smilies i mean
Ah, good plan--cheekiness, beware the palette knife! The results are impressive. Maybe one could think of scars on the body, or even on the psyche, this way. They add character that would not otherwise be there.
Scarification --- complex and interesting topic. Gives rise to one of my favorite words -- "cicatrice". Which in turn reminds me of a fabulous figure whose name escapes me, no it doesn't, yes it does, no it doesn't: "cockatrice" : a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head. The whole "no it doesn't" "yes it does" trope is intended to illustrate the agonising process of capturing a half-remembered thing that runs away when you approach it. Actually "trope" is a great word, too. Thanks TRC for your comments,.
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