E-Shrine to Veles

Buffalo and bison sculptures made from the vegetable ivory (tauga) nut, by the Zuni artist Gale Lucio

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, July 2026

Sound on to hear the water running through pebbles

In the fossils whose footsteps we fit; in the paths that have turned to gullies; in the things that make the time pool thick as molten sugar on our tongues– that which is eternal; that which is made of, maker of, martyred to the quietest rhythms of life.

Nothing can ever be the same.

Underwater Motion of Seagrass and Kelp

I just realized I never posted the finished mural! I’m not the best at this social media game...I finished the sky (constellations), fixed some issues, and completed the birch forest on the far left. Varnishing the whole thing took some elbow grease.

The Earth is covered in corpses. We breathe the air the dead exude, eat the food they nourished with their decay, pour their remains into our cars, wear them and sleep on them. And then we call them scary without even noticing that they are present in every single thing of our lives. We live because of the dead.

Watercolor and gouache by Hugo Simberg, 1896

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