#huckster

"Why...I say why am I sitting in this hand basket Lord?"

The word “demon” in this context should be emptied of much which later enters into it. When it begins to be used in the New Testament, there is no sense in which it means a fallen angel or is synonymous with “devil” or that a demon is a minion of Satan. In fact, Jesus states otherwise (Matt. 10:25). A “demon”, before the dominance of Christianity, is practically neutral (see, for instance, Plato and Apuleius). Even in the New Testament, where demons are enemies, they are treated by Jesus almost as pitiable (Matt. 8:28-34), certainly by his disciples as hucksterish (Acts 16:16-18). We may be closer to the connotation of the word daimon if we were to think of it as similar or synonymous with “sprite,” “fairy,” “boggart,” or "longaevi," etc. If this strikes you as a dangerously innocuous portrayal of something truly frightening, then you have not read a real fairy tale. I cannot think of anything more demonic than the Snow Queen or the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell—both of whom exhibit the “demon heuristic” above and both of whom sound right at home in an ayahuasca trip.

This 1931 Ford Model-A Huckster can be found at Mercier Orchards in Blue Ridge, Georgia. They inherited the car from Frank “Big Daddy” Johns, who restored the vehicle in 1990. The Johns family loved their annual apple run to the Georgia mountains.

The Huckster was also used in the filming of the popular movie “Fried Green Tomatoes”, one of my personal favorites.

YOUTUBE 🔗 ALSO IN BIO

https://youtu.be/I2eQC2UOk6c

Here they are, in copper and crimson

My last work for the wonderful, gorgeous @aniiisthetic - I sincerely hope that the time we spent together was as enjoyable for them as it was for me. Endless gratitude for the opportunity to get to know you, do something special, and get to learn something new~

 The work was in many ways new for me - new perspectives, characters and shades, style and mood, so different from my own - but it was a rewarding, productive experience. Little by little I start to play with foreshortening and lighting - usually my work is devoid of special planning and depth in this sense, and I am grateful that I was pulled out of this state;зз

I commissioned @aukanemin to draw my Harrowed Huckster, Nora, with her demon dad buddy, Cree, playing cards! I think this is probably one of my favorite commissions of all time.