SEE-FISH BELOW THE SUBMARINER'S TEMPLE, very roughly 60cm x 50cm. Oils. finalised in 2000, maybe? This painting is from the very early days: I had just taken up painting again, after an art-free interval of 35 years or so. I can't provide the exact dimensions, because I no longer have the painting. I sold it to a friend many years ago, for $500 if I recall correctly.
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
This is one of my favorites. What the hell happened in your later years???
Karen, thanks for your comment, and question. It's a good question. What the hell happened? I became dark and strange. Why? Not sure, but possibly because I began noticing the world getting very dark and strange. Trouble is, I climbed down so deep into the dark, that I couldn't/cannot climb back up again! How strange!
I was exaggerating about the darkness of your later years. Take THE DANGERS OF MENTAL ELABORATION, for example. There are swathes of bright colors (especially yellow) amid soft pastel hues. Not so strange!
"strange" is practically synonymous with "different", "unusual", "new / not encountered before": all great qualities!
See-Fish.... brilliant... first time I've seen the Vesica piscis double up as a symbol for Enhanced Vision as well as the Lunar-Neptunian Intuitional Dream Plane.
Antares, I try not to think too hard (in fact at all!) while I'm painting. But for some reason that particular symbol/icon appears in most of my paintings. Perhaps another aspect of the symbolism is the Eye of Horus, the all-seeing eye. Thanks for your comment. Cheers, MM
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