patron saint of catastrophe

Painting of a blue lady done in graphite, gouache, and ink on illustration board. 

tell me where it hurts, oil and gesso on canvas, 36x42, 2022

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ANDY LOVELL Swirls & Eddies, North Devon / North Cornish Coast / Swans, Incoming Tide silkscreen prints

Macrocilix maia.

"i went outside to save my pumpkins. (i guess it was may 21.) after that, i was going back inside. i just know it struck in our neighbor’s backyard, and it was bright and loud. i didn’t feel anything. i just came back inside like nothing was wrong. umm…my arm was sore. It was probably 4 or 5 in the evening. i didn’t know that it had happened. i don’t know, i wasn’t even sure that it was lightning, but that’s the only thing i figured it was. that’s the only thing i could have come in contact with that would have caused the marks. no, it didn’t hurt when it happened, i didn’t even know it happened. a few hours after it happened it really started to bother me. the next day it was bad. the blisters started forming; they were really big. i walked around the house without a shirt on. i didn’t go to work on monday. i felt sick to my stomach, i’m not sure if that was an after effect of the lightning, tho."

Woodcut,61 x 77 cm.

Source

the old dish at the airbase drew them in

Yüksel Arslan (Turkish, 1933-2017), Arture 166, Capital XV A (Labor accidents), 1972. Mixed media, 36 x 28.5 cm.

the red herring

Egon Schiele - Port of Trieste - 1907

Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering

Avenue of the Baobabs - Madagascar, Africa

Nude Climbing Up the Stairs, 2014. Oil on canvas. 180 × 120 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Art by the legendary Vincent Di Fate @vincentdifateart