#pin pricks

[marisarenee]

Transient Impressions & Missed Connections Mixed Media Sketchbook Entry by Marisa Renee

[sleepytimeprophet]

The Tower - Beriel, Emziel, Thanus, Phiron

The Tower: What event would trigger your muse's breaking point?

Bereil: It’s actually suprisingly easy to hit a breaking point with Bereil; he’s got a massive fear of being abandoned, so a missing quadrant or someone ghosting him for personal reasons may be enough to send him spiraling. He’s trying very hard to overcome that, and his kismesis is surprisingly helpful with this, but it’s still a sore spot for him.

Emziel: Calling him out on his hypocrisy is a good way to get him to tick; he works as a merc, typically for highbloods, but is one to preach about being hemoleniency. Sure, he’s got his own growing list of killing highbloods, but the lowblood list will always be longer.

Thanus: Hurt his hounds or his mate. He’s more protective of the hounds than his mate (for Lianor can very much take care of herself), but if so much as a singly hair is misplaced on a hound’s head and he’ll have the rage of an army turned against the offender.

Phiron: It would take a whole lot to get Phiron to a breaking point; going after the humans he’s grown rather fond for may be one of them; perhaps the death of his lusus another. His past love interest is always a sore spot to him, but no one knows about that, and thus is pretty much resigned only to himself to trigger.

[lauralouisepoff]

Pin holes on black A1 card

[lauralouisepoff]

Self portrait

"appropriate a photograph and change its context through the use of text or other manipulations"

This photography was taken by a close friend and fellow artist Shauna Harris

[villagedog]

Gaye Chan, Chimaera, #37 & #18 (Nixon & Grant), 2001, pin pricks on chromogenic prints.

From the artist statement:

chim·ae·ra, Chi·me·ra (kI-'mir'a, kI) noun 1a : capitalized : a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. b : an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts 2 : an illusion or fabrication of the mind; especially : an unrealizable dream <a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer -- John Donne> 3 : an individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution 

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