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The white-black furls and glowing fringe
Of all this curling writ, its flickerings unhinge
the gilded teeth of history are turned to ash.

The heat sears dreams and tales. The maw
Chews up the precious scroll, that never saw
A reader's holy gaze. Such is the toll.

Briefly, painted angels glow upon the night
The soot is more than libraries could hope to be
Lineages hush. The dark age is turned bright.

Crests of kings and seals of serfs hiss on the stones
And flake off in the dragon’s breath with ease.
Tomes shuffle in the zealous whisper breeze.

The quires of cathedrals singe. The test
of time is failed, and the emporium scratched out.
The diocese, a yellowed palimpsest, forgot,

Thrown to the crematorium to feed. Their home,
Their rest, was not to be eternal after all.
And all unfolds within the fractal heat.

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Finally a breath of air. Way too much has happened since last time, but I was everything but inactive. Just not able to finish things. This picture here depicts 's Seramore, one of two dragon . . . well, I call them entities. Synderen was one of two enormously supportive artists, the other being konkenorve.tumblr.com/ , to whom I first talked to around the end of last year. I wanted to show my gratitude and gain some exposure through art gifts. I promised I would paint this thing in particular in February . . . Well, stuff happened. Plus, I struggled with the composition.

The problem in this case was that I had to clean up too much (Total paint time: 86h35m - 30 of which I put in over the last 3 days or so). Everything but the letters is on one layer and gradually evolved through overpainting. I might make a journal that also explains the background of the piece, as well as my current view of medievalism.

Suffice to say for now that it heavily references illuminated manuscripts and decorated initial letters. The composition in itself is a decorated letter / word. The title refers to a parchment that contains traces of a former document (which was erased and overwritten). It's a term also used in architecture (according to Wikipedia at least), and I discovered it in Alan Moore's "Jerusalem", which is informed a lot by how streets and buildings change over time. Homorously, I first came to call the painting that because I was editing it so much. The church is Notre Dame de Paris. I thought, if it's got to be a cathedral, why not that one that actually burned?

Cough cough, I think I forgot a few areas. Well, I can't do it today, but I'll finish it soon.

Description

The white-black furls and glowing fringe
Of all this curling writ, its flickerings unhinge
the gilded teeth of history are turned to ash.

The heat sears dreams and tales. The maw
Chews up the precious scroll, that never saw
A reader's holy gaze. Such is the toll.

Briefly, painted angels glow upon the night
The soot is more than libraries could hope to be
Lineages hush. The dark age is turned bright.

Crests of kings and seals of serfs hiss on the stones
And flake off in the dragon’s breath with ease.
Tomes shuffle in the zealous whisper breeze.

The quires of cathedrals singe. The test
of time is failed, and the emporium scratched out.
The diocese, a yellowed palimpsest, forgot,

Thrown to the crematorium to feed. Their home,
Their rest, was not to be eternal after all.
And all unfolds within the fractal heat.

___________________________________________

Finally a breath of air. Way too much has happened since last time, but I was everything but inactive. Just not able to finish things. This picture here depicts 's Seramore, one of two dragon . . . well, I call them entities. Synderen was one of two enormously supportive artists, the other being konkenorve.tumblr.com/ , to whom I first talked to around the end of last year. I wanted to show my gratitude and gain some exposure through art gifts. I promised I would paint this thing in particular in February . . . Well, stuff happened. Plus, I struggled with the composition.

The problem in this case was that I had to clean up too much (Total paint time: 86h35m - 30 of which I put in over the last 3 days or so). Everything but the letters is on one layer and gradually evolved through overpainting. I might make a journal that also explains the background of the piece, as well as my current view of medievalism.

Suffice to say for now that it heavily references illuminated manuscripts and decorated initial letters. The composition in itself is a decorated letter / word. The title refers to a parchment that contains traces of a former document (which was erased and overwritten). It's a term also used in architecture (according to Wikipedia at least), and I discovered it in Alan Moore's "Jerusalem", which is informed a lot by how streets and buildings change over time. Homorously, I first came to call the painting that because I was editing it so much. The church is Notre Dame de Paris. I thought, if it's got to be a cathedral, why not that one that actually burned?

Cough cough, I think I forgot a few areas. Well, I can't do it today, but I'll finish it soon.