Oddities by Ernie

Burnable sculpture submission for Alchemy burn LAB's 2024

"Threshold" - stippling and sutures - ink on card stock - 8.5" X11" [Yes I called this something else origionally... but ive changed 10k times since then - lol ]“Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.”― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth “Thresholds are dangerous places, neither here nor there, and walking across one is like stepping off the edge of a cliff in the naive faith that you'll sprout wings halfway down. You can't hesitate, or doubt. You can't fear the in-between.”― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

"Dont Look" - Sutures and Stippling - Ink on Card Stock - 8.5"5 X 11" Dont look back you are not going that way. The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you have come.

"Snake of Memory" - Stippling and sutures,  Ink on Card Stock - 8.5" X 11" “What you are now is not what you've always been, nor is it what you always will be. You are a snake. Shed your skin if it no longer serves you. Transform into something different. Something better.” ― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey “Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan “He who has lived and thought can't help despising people in his soul; him who has felt disturbs the ghost of irrecoverable days; for him there are no more enchantments; him does the snake of memories, him does repentance bite.” ― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Our liberty is bound together" - Ink on Card Stock - 8.5" X 11" “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”-Lilla Watson Our liberty is bound together.

"Fu(k Cop City" - Ink on Card Stock - 8.5" X 11"All power to the people.Everyone––regardless of where you are––should care about the struggle to #StopCopCity.Today [June 5th 2023] many of us will be speaking at the Atlanta City Council.The community is mobilizing en masse to voice their opposition to Cop City.Come join us#StopCopCity#odditiesbyernie

"Tortuguita Forest Defender" Ink on Watercolor Paper - 18" X 24" “The right kind of resistance is peaceful because that's where we win. We're not going to beat them at violence." -  Esteban Paez Terán - AKA - “Tortuguita” For those of you who do not know about this struggle, I recommend getting familiar with it. Weelaunee Forest, Cop City, and the murder of Esteban Paez Terán. They died of 57 gunshot wounds. At the time of the shooting, the family claims Terán's hands were up, based on independent autopsy results showing bullet exit wounds in both hands.

"Tortuguita Forest Defender" Ink on Watercolor Paper - 18" X 24"“The right kind of resistance is peaceful because that's where we win. We're not going to beat them at violence." -  Esteban Paez Terán - AKA - “Tortuguita” For those of you who do not know about this struggle, I recommend getting familiar with it. Weelaunee Forest, Cop City, and the murder of Esteban Paez Terán. They died of 57 gunshot wounds. At the time of the shooting, the family claims Terán's hands were up, based on independent autopsy results showing bullet exit wounds in both hands.

"We All Die" - Stippling and Sutures - Ink on Watercolor Paper - 18" X 24" “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." ― Chuck Palahniuk "If you can live in the full knowledge that you are going to die, that you are not going to live forever, that if you live with the reality of death, you can live. This is not mystical talk; it is a fact. It is a principal fact of life. If you can't do it, if you spend your entire life in flight from death, you are also in flight from life." - James Baldwin

"The Shower" - hand drawn anaglyph - Ink on Watercolor Paper - 18" x 24" - “The artist is the lover showering essence on the world.” ― Victor Shamas

"I've been thinking too much" - Ink on Watercolor Paper - 18" X 24" “so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.”― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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