#imaginarymenagerie5

@Regrann from @archenemyarts - Ready for Sunday Sea-goat story time! 📖 that's a thing, right?! 😂 Once upon a time the Greek god Chronus created an immortal half goat, half fish creature called the sea-goat and named him Pricus. Pricus could think and talk, and even was gifted the ability to manipulate time. After some time Pricus had quite a few sea-goat kids (pun intended) that despite sharing the same half fish make-up as their sea-goat father, were somehow naturally drawn to land. They'd use their front legs to drag themselves ashore and then just bask in the sun all day. After enough days beaching themselves, the sea-goat kids' back fish halves started to evolve to into land goat legs and also started losing their ability to speak and think. Pricus was angered and upset that he seemed to be losing his children to the land so he used his gift to turn back time to before the kids discovered land. Time and reverse-time again the sea-goat children inevitably found their way back to the shores, eventually evolving into the normal goats we're familiar with today. After realizing he couldn't change the fate of his sea-goat children, Pricus suffered majorly from heartache and loneliness until one day he begged Chronus to end his life. Being that Pricus was immortal and couldn't be killed, Chronus sent him to live out his immortality in the sky as the Capricorn constellation so that he could watch over his former sea-goat children on land. The end. 🐐 - 🎨: "All My Riches To Perch As Proudly As You For A Day" by @joevollan - #archenemyarts #joevollan #imaginarymenagerie #imaginarymenagerie5 #seagoat #capricorn #capricorngoat #mythicalcreature

#imaginarymenagerie5 just opened at @archenemyarts in Philadelphia and included this little guy ("Psychopomp") who flew in from Vancouver. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ A "psychopomp" is a guide who helps usher the newly deceased into the afterlife. Here one arrives in the form of an otherworldly vulture. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ On the broken ouroboros (snake biting it's tail): We know the universe has, at least on some level, a unity to it, yet it rarely feels that way in practice. We live out our lives as little sections of the whole, parts of something greater yet somehow feeling totally separate from each other. Maybe in death the separation disappears? Or is it in death that we're severed from each other completely? ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ This piece felt like a natural extension of my afterlife work. The small circles are inspired by tiny micro-organisms / particles / life-stuff. Arising out of an interest in scientific illustrations, they're not only a nod to the sense of dissolution I imagine around the recently dead, but also a reference to the language/marks of my culture ("modern" culture). In a society which views everything as material, the transformative experience of death can only be understood and represented by the breaking down of matter into smaller and smaller parts. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Contact @archenemyarts for purchase inquiries⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #heatherwatts #heatherwattsart #contemporaryartist #emergingartist #artcollectorsofig #selftaughtartist #selftaughtart #cbcarts #archenemyarts #contemporaryart #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist #buyart #artforsale #originalart #originalartwork #buyoriginalart #artsale #mementomori #afterlifeartwork #afterlife #deathart #vultureart #artexhibit #artshow #groupshow #galleryshow #commercialgallery (at Vancouver, British Columbia)

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Cernunnos the Horned One will be @archenemyarts for Imaginary Menagerie Vol. 5 opening this Friday!! #imaginarymenagerie5

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