Art and Such by Evan

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Alien Automaton 👽 I will be raffling off this one of a kind, handmade, wooden automaton in one week (on May 7th, 2020). If you’d like a chance to win this piece, visit https://www.artandsuchevan.com/product-page/alien-automaton-raffle to purchase a raffle ticket 🎟

Alien Automaton Raffle | art-and-such-evan

Win this one of a kind, hand-made, wooden automaton. Each raffle ticket costs $5 dollars and gives you one entry towards winning the origina

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The Little Things

“The Little Things” by Evan Lorenzen 

https://www.artandsuchevan.com/the-little-things

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The Faith of the Seven

By Evan Lorenzen

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New tiny book entitled "Big Changes" 🔎📓 Swipe to see each page in closer detail #art #artandsuch #drawing #design #illustration #book #books #mini #miniature

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(Portrait of Grigori Rasputin) On Halloween, we ask more of ourselves. We ask ourselves to face our fears, both physically and metaphorically. We ask ourselves to investigate what we normally reject in favor of grasping the beneficial nature of darkness and death. A day in which we turn towards the shadowy aspects of ourselves and embrace them smiling rather than reactively casting out what we have been told is evil. To deny ourselves a glimpse at darkness is to diminish the breadth of human experience. So, cheers to the witches, to the goblins, and the ghouls.  #art #artandsuch #drawing #sketch #illustration #portrait #ink #mini #microart #halloween #shadow #mysticism #Rasputin 

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Had a great time poking this Frida on @_hennaluna at @allsacredtattoo yesterday!🌹 #art #artandsuch #tattoo #tattoos #handpoke #handpoked #stickandpoke #ink #fridakahlo (at All Sacred Tattoo-Foundation)

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🐉 #art #artandsuch #tattoo #tattoos #btattooing #handpoked #stickandpoke #ink #dragon

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Bird up! The newest season of brotendo @ericfuckingandre 's show sure sups my mello @adultswim #art #artandsuch #drawing #illustration #portrait #ericandre #dotwork #ink #mini #miniature

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Dotted Donald Glover @childishgambino 🍑 #art #artandsuch #drawing #dotwork #portrait #mini #atlanta #childishgambino #illustration

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Stevie Nicks circa 1976

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 

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Imagine, briefly, if you will, that the purpose of your human existence is hinged on experiential diversity. Numerous cultures, religions, and philosophies refer to the belief of a “singularity”, “oneness”, or “omnipresence” that paradoxically pervades and evades our physical reality; zealots may call it God, while physicists call it Superstring Theory. Regardless of name, these ideas suggest that we are somehow separate from such a unity of consciousness while still existing in it. Our divergence from absolute oneness inherently shows our desire to explore the concept of “differentness.” If we liked everything always being the same, then why did we split from it? Like the zeros and ones that compose the binary dance of a computer, our consciousness aims to explore the interplay between difference and sameness. By coming to this planet as a human being, (remember, this is all just a thought experiment) you have subconsciously chosen to participate in a divergence from everything else because you wanted to check it out and see what separateness had to offer. And it’s pretty cool; there’s billions of plants and insects and people and ideas and everybody is bumping into everything else and it’s absolute beautiful chaos. There are people out there that have forgotten the beautiful chaos of diversity, those that armor themselves with bullets and regurgitate fear. We need not discredit their differences and humiliate their incarnations, yet rather do our best to remind them of the dance of zeros and ones, and that it doesn’t need to be taken so seriously. No bullet will bring you back to the unity you fear losing. 

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Now available for purchase. After many attempts to get "Life's Lil Pleasures" produced through various printers with lackluster results, I have decided to produce a to-scale edition of the book all made by hand. Available at artandsuchevan.com

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The story of a Game of Thrones has become the mythological cannon of our collective generation. Functioning in the same capacity as world mythologies like classic India epics or even the bible, the story provides a framework of numerous individual stories each with its own metaphorical merit. We live in an era of effortless consumption, so it only makes sense that our collective myth would come through the form of television that does not require much participation on our part; we have a talking box to pass this story onto us rather than the oral traditions of our ancestors. The potency of the story can be found, at least partially, in its divergence from the typical arc of the hero’s journey; characters that we come to love and connect with don’t always survive to complete their personal story. These abrupt endings echo our own realities and reveal the inevitability of the sometimes painful unexpected. However, the samsaric nature of this world is shown to build and strengthen each character in various capacities rather than solely functioning as a detrimental circumstance. As readers and watchers, we can relate to and connect with this ideal because we have each experienced similar events that have no rhyme or reason, but have expanded the depth of our character. The story not only parallels our own personal circumstances in terms of entropy, but also in societal circumstance. I believe that on a more subconscious level, we relate to a Game of Thrones because the world within the story teeters on the precipice between utter destruction and renaissance. While still contained within a fantastical framework that allows us to look at the whole picture metaphorically rather than literally, the foreboding sense of great chance and change is a taste that lingers in our own mouths.

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Finishing up some watercolor paintings for my show PLANTISH, taking place this Friday at @ironwoodcollection 🌾 Accompanying me, the lovely and talented @sacredthistle will also be arranging a floral pop-up shop for the event 🌹 #art #artandsuch #painting #illustration #Denver #watercolor #floral (at Ironwood)