The Art of Marabelle

Dealer of dreams, illusions, & alternate universes since 1971.

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I was meandering around and found a snake in a tree… hello, tiny snake… do you have a message for me? It did not at this time have anything to relay. #snake #snakesofinstagram #nature #urbanjungle #wildlife #hellospring (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/COeb2pzj_6y/?igshid=1sj7hws09c5gr

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My dog has a heart! From one vantage point in the universe, there is a heart shape there. People were always mentioning it, and I had no idea what they were talking about. I figured it was because he’s such a Good Boy and loves everyone, dogs, people, cats, trash cats… (but not raccoons)… but there it is. #heart #heartshaped #dog #dogsofinstagram (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/COOyGgeD7X_/?igshid=2im3k33geawx

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That alternate universe where I looked just like my all my Great Aunts from the long ago times. Or maybe they were me. Or we’re all the same person. I’m always somehow between mirrors and all the timelines in the multiverse run together, so what do I know. I should be writing, but I’m eating saltwater taffy and reading old vintage cookbooks and trying to decide what new universe to create next. #multiverse #alternatetimeline #splitreality #nanowrimo #theplacesigo #alternateuniverse #mandelaeffect (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNGPZBeD2zk/?igshid=4jeb1zpp2khu

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Fireball in the sky, a supernova, a sun too large because it is not my sun, in a world that is not my world, and I am just a traveler crossing boundaries, and glimpsing other worlds... #alternateuniverse #multiverse #otherworlds #sunshine #sunset (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMikeGPjHMe/?igshid=1kzh42q9pcxpl

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Springtime royalty appears in purples and golds, the heralding single clear notes of joyous birds, nothing like the lush green goddesses of summer and their bee sizzling symphonies making the world scream electric green, autumns ladies swirl in crisp windswept glory and need not say a thing, for their colors speak loudly enough and your heart bursts with love, then comes the veiled hush of winters spare and threadbare palette as the ice queens rule the land with voices like cold water and paint the sky and sea and land with frost fingers that turn you to stone. And you wait for the royals of spring to work their magic again. #spring #springiscoming #flowers #purple #crocus #signsofspring #magic #nature #naturephotography (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMVAyusjRmv/?igshid=jlpc409008fi

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Cat: I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. Me: As do I, cat, as do I. #cat #catsofinstagram #catstagram #blackcat #blackcats #blackcatsofinstagram #aliens #weird #funnycats #funny (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKJ8ySDtlv/?igshid=1ujcw27irnbot

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And looking through my lens across the multiverse, I glimpse Helios, The City of Light... for a fraction of a moment, Being and Unbeing, a place of energy and flow, the edges blur between matter and ether, and it blazes like a sea of dancing comets under a midnight plum sky. And everyone has faces like avenging angels and voices like a chorus of bonfires. I really was trying to get Jupiter and Saturn, but I landed a billion trillion universes away. #jupiter #jupitersaturnconjunction #skyphotography #planets #stars #astronomy #multiverse #mandelaeffect #alternateuniverse #burning #light #abstract (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHk2RajxPs/?igshid=4mgjzk18e1u4

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Jupiter & Saturn, in the Southwestern sky of Philadelphia. I was finally able to get a few photos before it clouded up again. Did you know it’s always somehow cloudy whenever there’s a major astronomical event? Always. EVERYWHERE. Billions of alternate universes and it always happens. Once, I had the tickets to an opportunity to see a universe ending and we stood out in a field at the best vantage point in the entire universe waiting for the Big Show, and the whole thing ended in clouds and a light drizzle. What a bummer. Then we all went out for the worst coffee. But that’s another story. #jupiter #jupitersaturnconjunction #skyphotography #planets #stars #astronomy #multiverse #mandelaeffect #alternateuniverse (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHjIvBDN67/?igshid=73xhblsniw18

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Sometimes my camera takes photos of hidden things in the fabric of the cosmos when I’m trying to take photos of other things, major astronomical events, or chairs in trees. I have no idea what this is, but it was there for a moment while I was trying to photograph Jupiter and Saturn. #jupiter #jupitersaturnconjunction #skyphotography #planets #stars #astronomy #multiverse #mandelaeffect #alternateuniverse https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHizIpjywx/?igshid=sjsdkae50fgt

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Jupiter & Saturn, in the Southwestern sky of Philadelphia. I was finally able to get a few photos before it clouded up again. Did you know it’s always somehow cloudy whenever there’s a major astronomical event? Always. EVERYWHERE. Billions of alternate universes and it always happens. Once, I had the tickets to an opportunity to see a universe ending and we stood out in a field at the best vantage point in the entire universe waiting for the Big Show, and the whole thing ended in clouds and a light drizzle. What a bummer. Then we all went out for the worst coffee. But that’s another story. #jupiter #jupitersaturnconjunction #skyphotography #planets #stars #astronomy #multiverse #mandelaeffect #alternateuniverse (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHiSi8jMv3/?igshid=di89bw85o56v

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“WE’RE NOT UP TO ANYTHING.” Yeah you are... Chillin’ like villains. #blackcat #blackcatsofinstagram #catsofinstagram (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI_YF0ijOG5/?igshid=jndg4314168o

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Just working on my holiday cards, and by that I mean I’m adding my own little touches to holiday cards. Subtle. Spooky. Hidden horrors. Like a little Christmas surprise. #scarysolstice #scarychristmas #cthulhu #creativity #handmadecards #spookyseason #lifeofawriter #lifeofanartist (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIcTOwHjJA4/?igshid=1anx3uyhrf3cw

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Today I was pondering the profound beauty that there is in the multiverse, and what other beings find exquisitely beautiful. I was deeply moved by the fallen yellow leaves in the winter rain. It made me remember a dream, where I was in this place once, sitting on the soft bluegreen sedge bank of a glassy lake with a lot of others at twilight, watching what looked like masses of soft, white sea anemones waving slowly under the water’s surface. The wind shifted softly in the trees. It was very peaceful, and everyone seemed to share the peacefulness, quietly, without needing to speak. I feel I have been through the multiverse and back again, a billion trillion times. There is beauty all around us, moments to move us, fill us with joy, break our hearts, if only we are to notice it. The shocking song of a yellow and green yucca, the fibonacci sequences in many things, the ringing in a rock, the diamonds that hang on branches after rain, the rings on water rippling outward, the exuberance of vines and the secrets in moss, massive fungi meditating under forests, the popping and squeaking inside trees. The open sky. The hurrying and scurrying in billions of directions of a billion furred thing, the murmuration of starlings and other winged beasts. I once read a book about a stranger in a strange land, and how they fell to earth, and marveled at the arcane and alien way of it all. Or maybe I never did read it. But I remember it nonetheless. If you should find yourself profoundly moved by the simplicity of the falling rain, or you find yourself noticing another who is dumbstruck by the wind in the grass as if for the first time, share the moment, share the peacefulness of it, and know, fellow travelers, that you are not alone. #multiverse #nature #beauty #winter #fallenleaves #rain #mandelaeffect #lifeofawriter #lifeofanartist #8 #reflection #water #rainyday (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIY6yXKDh4Y/?igshid=nzb3djmkufu3

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I got up one morning and looked at my hair in the mirror after I washed it, grabbed a pair of scissors, and whacked off 9 inches of my hair in a few snips. The apocalypse makes you do wild things. Before you’ve even had your morning coffee. Shortly after that, it had begun to poof out into a giant curly triangle. My hair is quite wavy and thick, and I hadn’t accounted for the loss of the weight of it. So then I was at my local stylists. I had called them and said, “I need to make an appointment... I just cut my own hair with dull scissors...”, and they said, “We can see you in 20 minutes...”. Anyway, it looks great now. This is the day it was cut. Fairly tame because I’d tried to flatten it to fix it before I gave up and let the professionals step in. It’s been washed since, and its marvelously wavy. #quarantinehaircut #shorthair #wavyhairdontcare https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWY287j_CD/?igshid=9ot59doc97yd

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A savory winter lentil sweet potato soup over rice, just the thing I needed. Looks like my Wild friend there also wants a bowl, and we’ll eat it up we love it so. #wildthings #soup #food #vegan #winter #comfortfood #lifeofanartist #lifeofawriter (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWXQgtDoBw/?igshid=8sfolsvbgmhc

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This one time, I was on this alternate Earth, and it had three moons, Selene, Lumos, and little Lux. I never tired of hearing the stories about how they came to be in the sky, always in an elaborate and playful dance, never touching. When they rose each night, I was always fearful they might crash into each other, but somehow they never did. Their orbits were beautiful and mysterious, and inspired music and poetry and stories, and delighted everyone from alchemists to occultists, children and laborers, and filled the world with a wonder of science. That was another world, somewhere else, as alternate universes always are. Perhaps we will meet again. #multiverse #alternateuniverse #otherworld #mandelaeffect #cern #lifeofawriter #lifeofanartist (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CICEy6ajOmI/?igshid=t9rzrogsim6

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This cat is jealously snuggling with D’s curly hair and he’s asleep, and I’m just dying here. 😂😂😂 #cat #catsofinstagram (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1TghNDgLI/?igshid=d63n7gwh45pw