P. palaeosinensis

Will get a UV resistant matte varnis and will be wall mountable.

Much like Francis Ford Coppola's disastrously terrible masterpiece Megalopolis, I have used an opening flower as a visual metaphor!

and don't forget to stay silly

Fuck Ice

Pigeon Comic 81 - American Idiot

Pigeon Comic 81 - American Idiot

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

A Smilodon for the ice age. Protect your neighbors.

"Wild Hearts" - Continuing to think in linocut terms and imagining if I had access to silver and gold inks as well. Things like this would have to be REAL big. I find carving relaxing when all the artistic decisions are already made. I wonder if the local arts place would ever have a printmaking class that could walk me through their presses or printing technique...I can carve the blocks themselves just fine.

A lovely Korean woman taught me my very first Korean word at a protest: yong-gi. Courage. Have courage.

"Eclipse" - digital. Could totally be a print I'm sure if I wasn't a coward. One life eclipses another; Smilodon takes down a whitetail deer. Inspired by petroglyphs, cave art, and ancient Scythian art. It's weird to think that the whitetail deer survived the ice age and made it to the present but many of its predators did not.

I hope for the love of all that is green on this earth people are not somehow automatically assuming distilled animal forms alongside bits here and there from 1) Scythians, 2) neolithic China, 3) neolithic Ireland+Scotland, 4) Chauvet cave, 5) Lascaux cave, 6) 6,000-8,000 year old African rock art in Libya and Niger, 7) patterns I find pleasing in linocut, 8) works by David Hale, and 7) anatomical shapes I just really enjoy & enjoy exaggerating are intended to be or could only be native art. That's all the major influences I can think of while I've been rolling these concepts around in my mind. These shapes have been applied to North American animals because these are what live and died in the southeastern US. My backyard. Where I live. This is not native art, it has never been claimed nor presented as native art, and most importantly I actively work away from North American indigenous influence because of the issues they deal with in art. I work towards my own deep time ancestry.

I'm not easily distracted, you are! Welcome back to the Trash Book for 2025... Will I finish it in time??