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Hello! Into photography, drawing, hiking, nature, reading, music, movies, cooking, and thinking. INFP-T Stay strong and be kind to yourself.
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Reading Fellowship of the Ring while sipping red wine from a One Ring glass and getting snowed upon by a Japanese cherry on a perfect spring day. Love to friends, near and far. Space and time are fictions.

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Hike at Banshee Reeks 5.5 miles, 100 min. "Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." – E.B.White

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Happy Earth Day 2025, Bluesky peeps. Zebra Swallowtail hitching a ride a few years ago. Buddy hiked with me for 2 miles before wandering off.

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Vasily Polenov (1844-1927) Russian realist and landscape painter. "An Olive Tree in the Garden of Gethsemane" c.1882. Oil on canvas. 30 x 23 cm. Location: Tretyakov Gallery.

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Back from my mini-Bluesky-staycation. Hope y'all are fighting the good fight! 🖤

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He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.

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The Japanese cherry fully opened today. The last two weeks it’s been stuck halfway because of the cold weather.

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A color woodcut by Austrian painter and printmaker Joseph Stoitzner, (1884 - 1951), titled "Early Spring," 1917. He was born in Vienna and knew well the open landscapes and mountainous terrain of the Alps. #woodcut #art #alps #stoitzner #spring

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The Dag from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. Work in progress as of 04.07.2025. Graphite on Arches 140 HP. #madmaxfuryroad #thedag #abbeyleekershaw #illustration #artnouveau #WIP #graphite

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The Dag, WIP. Detail. Progress as of 04.06.25 Character from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. The piece is art nouveau in the style of Alphonse Mucha. Can see the end of pencilling soon. Shew. #illustration #art #madmax #furyroad #drawing #artnouveau #alphonsemucha #mucha

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living in perpetual rage is tiring. I need to take a baseball bat to some thing crunchy and/or squishy

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89 north out of Page, Arizona into Utah. Picture taken at about 75MPH while driving. Edited for bug splatters. #photography #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #fujix100

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Self Portrait 48"x20" - Ball point pen, acrylic, red marker on blotter paper. ~1992 Definitely some things wrong here but eh, I still like the drawing. The bottom of the drawing got wet by accident which sorta works with the water theme. #drawing #art #illustration #fish #hanging #ballpointpen

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In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much (Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

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The Dag, WIP. Progress as of 03.30.25. Character from Mad Max: Fury Road, played by Abbey Lee Kershaw. The piece is art nouveau in the style of Alphonse Mucha. Long way to still go with this one. #illustration #art #madmax #furyroad #drawing #artnouveau #alphonsemucha #mucha

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In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, Yaldabaoth is regarded as the malevolent Demiurge and false god of the Old Testament who generated the material universe and keeps souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in a world full of pain and suffering of his creation.

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Portrait from the Facebook Friends series. Graphite, Arches 140 hot press watercolor. 2020 #portrait #drawing #graphite #art

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Miyazaki sums it all up. Keep fighting the good fight, y'all. Much love. 🖤

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