Tarotdevil

@tarotdevil

A collection of images that I like enough to let the internet know that I like them. I am particularly fond of the occult, art nouveau, mythology, the female form, and heavy and experimental music. Sometimes the noise/drone I create makes it's way here. If you want to see what I myself create, check out my website at: www.howlingfalcon.wordpress.com

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Indefinite Hiatus

What follows is a somewhat lengthy account of why I have been so silent on this page for so long. To those who have reached out, I am very grateful. However, I will not be active as an artist for an indefinite time, and here is why:

Sometimes life takes strange turns. When I started this page, it was because I very much wanted to make art a major part of my life. I had or made time to practice…

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Kali making a garland, lovely

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Endless Poetry (2016)

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Goddess Matangi - Hand Coloured Lithograph Print,Bengal, c1880’s

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Johann Michael Faust (1663-1707), Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata

Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz : mit welchem die alten und neuen Philosophi, die unvollkommene Metall, durch Gewalt des Feuers verbessert, und allerhand schädliche und unheylsame Kranckheiten innerlich und äusserlich, durch deren Würckung vertrieben haben : dieser Edition wird annoch, nebst vielen Kupffern und über 800 Philosophischen Anmerckungen, ein volkomenes Lexicon alchymisticum novum, und ein vollständiges Register rerum & verborum, beygefüget.

Compendium Alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata that is, the noblest gift of God, or, A Güldener treasure with which the old and new Philosophi that imperfect metal, enhanced by violence of fire, and all sorts of harmful and unheylsame Kranckheiten internally and externally, have driven through their Würckung: this edition is annoch, besides many Kupffern and over 800 Philosophical Anmerckungen, a folk Hippomenes Lexicon alchymisticum novum, and a complete index rerum & verborum, beygefüget.

by Faust, Johann Michael, 1663-1707; Reusner, Hieronymus, b. 1558. Pandora; Marchand, Johann Christian, 1680-1711

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Hexenritt (Witches’ Ride), Illustration from Die Muskete magazine, 1926 © Erich Schütz

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Narasimha, Nepal

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Vajrayogini, newari paubha, Nepal

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Veerabadra, Madurai Meenakshi Temple

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Durga, newari style

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Changes

After a lot of thought over the years, I am making changes to the way I do business with art. For a long time, I have struggled with the idea of making money from art. Perhaps this came from Alejandro Jodorowsky, for he certainly seeded the idea, but regardless, deep down, I do not believe that art is something to be sold. If there is an exchange, it should be one based on freely given support.…

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