The Ambivalence of Open Spaces

Save me, brother

close your eyes

Staring down by the stairs

He has your mouth

there is a presence among us

Edward Kelly, a magician.

look deep inside my snot

miss you

I think the stamp says: Prefecture de Police - Cabinet du Petit

quiet your cries and let me tell you a story

scrooge talks to the ghost

say wha

feathered serpent

Four of the five completed images from the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories], by Katsushika Hokusai, who died #onthisday in 1849.⠀ ⠀ The first shown is known as “The Mansion of the Plates”. After the maid Okiku had accidentally broken one of a set of elegant Korean plates, her infuriated master bound her and threw her down a well, where she died in body but not spirit. In 1795, wells around Japan became infested with a species of worm covered in thin threads, which people believed it to be a reincarnation of Okiku; the threads being the remnants of the fabric used to bind her. They named it “Okiku mushi” [the Okiku bug].⠀⠀ ⠀ More on the site (click link in bio and search “Hokusai”) and also we’ve some prints in our online shop.⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ 👻🍽👻🍽👻🍽👻🍽👻🍽👻🍽👻🍽👻 ⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ #Hokusai #ghosts #well #wells #japan #japaneseart #art #folktale #occult #otd https://www.instagram.com/p/CABR-mKJ5tc/?igshid=fui7n1lieokr

Magickal Stele, Austin Osman Spare