mike

@sixam.net

Booth Ogre, Studio Assistant, and Art Spouse

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

In a huge blow to my photography career, the SD card in my toy camera corrupted yesterday morning, so I lost every photo from Dragon Con on Saturday. I hadn’t printed any for myself because I was running low on sticker paper and wanted to make sure I could keep giving them away all weekend.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

Artist friends: during my many-hour drive home from Gen Con, I came up with an art-gift that I'm going to work on and give to you when next we see each other at Dragon Con (might be too soon), IX, or Gen Con. This post is my public declaration of intent.

Pueraria suffocata, known as smotherwort, is the fastest-growing species of plant. This vine of the kudzu family can, under ideal conditions, spread 10 meters per day. People living in areas where this species is invasive are advised to close their windows at night to avoid accidental asphyxiation.

A picture of a bedroom in the morning. A large mass of vines has entered through the open window and covers most of the bed and wall. On the bed, the plant betrays the shape of a person beneath, choked in their sleep as they lied in a fetal position. Small, purple flowers bloom around them.

The Deck of Woven Marrow is a 50 card oracle deck gathering the last six years of my ethereal botanical watercolor paintings into a love letter to interconnectivity. Sign up to get notified when the project goes live here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Coming soon: The Deck of Woven Marrow

An oracle deck for sense making and becoming at the end of the world, hand-painted by Emerald Barkley

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