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Skinny Puppy show from 1988 (Malmoe Sweden)

The Horse its treatment in health and disease

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. De Occulta Philosophia. 1533.

Sigils of the fixed stars and constellations. In the Hermetic tradition — which holds that hidden correspondences link celestial bodies to earthly phenomena — sigils were signs constructed from geomantic figures. These were patterns generated by making random marks and reducing them to rows of dots. Connecting them in various ways produced a unique shape assigned to a star or constellation and used in talismans and rituals to invoke those bodies' power.

Pictured top to bottom: Caput Algol, Pleiades, Aldebaran, Hircus, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Cor Leonis, Cauda Ursae, Ala Corui, Spica, Alchameth, Elpheia, Cor Scorpii, Vultur Cadens, and Cauda Capricorni.

Huey, my favorite lesson horse from my old barn, is being put to sleep today. 

He had a racing injury that was only getting worse over time, and despite two surgeries to treat it, his outlook was bleak. I haven't seen him in a couple months. I said goodbye to him then knowing that it would almost certainly be the last time I saw him. 

So - one last time.

Goodbye, Huey. You were a goofy and wonderful boy, and this shouldn't have been your time. I wish you had a longer life free from pain to play out your antics, and I will miss you.

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I know nobody wants to reblog art with a caption about a dying pet, but I'm not posting this to get reblogs. I'm sharing it this way because...it matters to me. It matters to me that people know about and acknowledge the lives of those who die, even if only briefly and in tiny ways. I treasure knowing about the pets of mutuals online, or even of complete strangers, and I want to know if they pass away. I want to hold my tiny piece of their memory safely, to keep it with me throughout my life as a record of their existence. And...I hope that if you're reading this, you'll think about Huey for a moment too.

Our Bones

Gesso & oils, 2023. Inspired by a Luzon painting I saw in a vintage shop.

NEGLECTED MURDERESSES SERIES

Angelica Transome — so disposed of her infant brother that he was not found until many years later (Nether Postlude, 1889).

Miss Elspeth Lipsleigh — eventually succeeded in causing the death of Arthur Glumm in Towage Regis, 1892.

Nurse J. Rosebeetle — tilted her employer out of the wheelchair and over the cliff at Sludgemouth in 1898.

Mrs. Fledaway — laced her husband's tea with atropine in the spring of 1903 at Locusts, near Puddingbasin, Mortshire.

Sarah Jane (“Batears”) Olafsen — hacked to collops nineteen loggers between March 1904 and November 1907 in and around Bindweed, Oregon.

Madame Galoche — in May 1911 added a tin of insecticide to a potate purée Crécy aux perles at the soup kitchen she operated for the indigent of Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Belgium.

Miss Emily Toastwater — smothered her father after evening prayers, London S. W. 7 (1916).

Mrs. Daisy Sallow — eviscerated her daughter-in-law with a No. 7 hook afterwards crotcheting, over the course of three evenings her shroud in snowflake pattern (1921).

Natasha Batti-Loupstein — pulverized a paste necklace and sprinkled it over a tray of canapés, Villa Libellule, Nice, 1923.

Lady Violet Natheless — strangeled the hon. Opal Gentian at Gilravage Hall on Midsummer's Eve, 1925.

Lettice Finding — shot Edgar Cutlet, whose mistress she was, during the interval of a touring repertory company production of Rosmersholm in Manchester 1934.

Miss Q. P. Urkheimer — brained her fiancé after failing to pick up an easy spare at Glover's Lane's, Poxville, Kansas, 1936.

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