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oh wow this is stunning! I am in love with the details in the trunk
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Beautiful!!!! Love the attention you give to those tiny twigs...and roots
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Wow! Always love to see artists who do things I am pretty sure I wouldn't have the patience for! Very striking!
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LOL
it isn't quite patience.... it is something a little more draining and soul stealing (obsession)
...but I'm OK with it
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"...But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep..." - ZARATHUSTRA
love your work.
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Gorgeous in every way. Yggdrasil would be envious
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I think I will be giving Yggdrasil a shot one of these days ... I keep practicing on all the pieces separately , so I can be more natural when I get there.... I was thinking of Huginn and Muninn with all of the crow/ raven drawings a few weeks ago.
Next I guess I should look at stags.... and a squirrel ???
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you're obviously steeped in norse mythology, I like that... Huginn and Muninn were in my mind too, having recently attended a heathen festival... And yes, I agree, it's time Ratatoskr the squirrel made an appearance! I think the way you draw trees as if they're blood vessels or neurological systems is particularly appropriate to the way these myths act as psychological archtypes.
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I love to read Mythology in general ... but Norse is one of my favorites. I also like Sumerian/ Babylonian stuff... and Russian Fairy Tales.....
My favorites story, or at least the one I think of most, is always the... Binding of Fenris.... Tyr betraying Fenrir bothers me ... and I think about it often. The mix of sacrifice and dishonesty makes my stomach churn.... This may sound silly but I enjoy the images of Tyr with his hand in the beasts mouth because it is the last moment of connection between the two, and I almost feel like there is a chance Tyr will decide not to go through with it.
.... I am never sympathetic when he loses his hand ... it seems like he deserves it ...
heathen festival? Sounds interesting
.... I can't find the other response I wanted to reply to ... but about the Lovecraft.... I plan to keep going with it .... I have not gotten far.... but I will, I have been drawing a lot .... usually drawing and reading share the same drive slot. I started with" the Tomb" because it was chronologically first ... no other reason really
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I'm delving into the sagas - and the mabinogion a little bit, for an art project (might be a little less bondage and whipping in this one lol) - mythology is wonderful, psychologically rich soil where things grow into weird shapes, that's what I see in your work. I must read the story of Tyr again, having hailed him with a horn of mead at that festival recently, I really ought to know all that stuff
I hope you're enjoying Lovecraft's lunacy enough to continue; he comes closer than most writers to evoking an existential horror which can be quite exhilarating and mind-expanding. But of course it is also preposterous, and I don't mind that either. I think "The Shadow over Innsmouth" is my favourite, partly because it reads more like a thriller.
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Thanks... I tried looking at Bonsai trees for this .... there is something about the miniature trees that seems so precious.
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Yes! ..a precious creature of Art )
... my Congratulations )
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