SYZYGY:
A Continuation of the AP Art and Design Sustained Investigation
We are Free (In the End)
We are Free (In the End). Procreate for iPad. September 16, 2022
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"In the end... we are free."
The Witness, Destiny 2: Lightfall (2023) Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad)
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Messages from the Deep
Something of Another Planet. Pen & Ink. June 18, 2022
Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad), pen & ink
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Messages from the Deep. Procreate for iPad. October 22, 2021
"Dreams are messages from the deep."
Inaudible voice, Dune (2021) |
Annihilation
Benthic Embrace. April 4, 2022. Procreate for iPad.
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Ambulacra. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers), pencil. November 17, 2020
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Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad)
"I don't know what it wants, or if it wants, but it will grow until it encompasses everything. Our bodies and our minds will be fragmented into their smallest parts, until not one part remains... Annihilation"
Dr. Ventress, Annihilation (2018)
Dr. Ventress, Annihilation (2018)
Long Forgotten
Underpainting. Procreate for iPad. January 10, 2022
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Long Forgotten. Procreate for iPad. January 16, 2021
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Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad)
"And so we all die alike. No matter into which house we are born. No matter which gown. Whether we grace the earth briefly or for a long time. I alone tie my bonds. Whether I have extended hands or slapped them. We all face the same end. Those above have long forgotten us. They do not judge us. In death, I am all alone. And my only judge is me."
Martha, Dark (2019)
Martha, Dark (2019)
All That Remains
All That Remains. Procraeate for iPad. November 20, 2021
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"I must not fear. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring obliteration. I will face my fear, and I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Lady Jessica Atreides, Dune (2021) Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad)
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The End Will Eat Everything
Of Vile Drums...Of Accursed Flutes. Procreate for iPad. September 6, 2021
"[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes."
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1943) Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad), drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), oil paints, linseed oil.
"We have come upon the end of the world, and I've stared into its expanse. It has whispered into my ear, and I am enlightened. Death is coming and it has made me its herald. The end will eat everything."
Chapter DLXXIX of the Chronicon, Destiny 2: Forsaken (2019) |
The End Will Eat Everything. Oil on white panel. September 13, 2020
"[T]he allegorical figure of Azathoth, the primal monster who had given birth to the stars at the beginning of time, and who, according to an obscure tradition, would devour them at its end."
Han, The Last Night on Earth (1995) 
Nameless Rites and Deeds, Veiled in Darkness. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). September 6, 2020
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The Great Shroud of the Sea
The Great Shroud of the Sea. Procreate for iPad. August 1, 2021
Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad)
"Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
Dream Quietly Away
Dream Quietly Away. Procreate for iPad. June 30, 2021
Once in a Blue Moon. Oil on white panel. October 31, 2020
"If ever I should wish for a retreat wither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley."
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) |
The Devil's Reaper. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). October 17, 2020
Height: 24 in.
Width: 18 in. Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), oil paints, linseed oil. |
The Wrath of Walpurgis. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). October 10, 2020
It Smiled Back at Me
It Smiled Back at Me. Procreate for iPad. May 7, 2021
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"The stalk ended in only a human mouth, full of flesh and blood, and it smiled back at me as I gazed upon it..."
William Hooker, In the Mouth of Madness (2021) Materials: Digital media (Procreate for iPad)
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Walpurgisnachtmare
Walpurgisnachtmare. Procreate for iPad. April 30, 2021
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Captain Calamari. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). August 2, 2020
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"The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled."
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1926) |
Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), digital media (Procreate for iPad)
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A God Incarnate
A God Incarnate. Procreate for iPad. March 6, 2021
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Shin Godzilla Study. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). July 2, 2020
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Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), digital media (Procreate for iPad)
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"A god incarnate. A city doomed."
Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, Shin Gojira (2016) |
Answer Our Prayers
As it is Written. Oil on white panel. December 16, 2020
"As it is written... [the] harbingers of the end-times, primordial forces of chaos and destruction."
The Codex, Doom: Eternal (2020) |
Perish Gaze. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). August 22, 2020
Height: 12 in.
Width: 9 in. Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), oil paints, linseed oil, digital tools. |
Answer Our Prayers. Oil on white canvas. July 25, 2020
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
Toby Ziegler, The West Wing (2002) |
Touch of Malice
Touch of Malice. Oil on white canvas. July 18, 2020
"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth."
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror (1928) |
Heartbeat of Hell. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). October 29, 2020
Height: 24 in.
Width: 18 in. Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), oil paints, linseed oil. |
Somnambulism
Interstellar Convergence. Oil on white canvas. September 8, 2020
"Fever- wild dreams- somnambulism- illusions of sounds- a pull towards a point in the sky- and now a suspicion of insane sleep-talking!"
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House (1932) |
The Pentaptych. Oil on white canvas. September 8, 2020
Height: 12 in.
Width: 12 in. Materials: Oil paints, linseed oil. |
The Iridescent Maw
The Iridescent Maw. Oil on white canvas. May 17, 2020
"It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests."
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1931) |
Wraith Covenant. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). August 10, 2020
Height: 12 in.
Width: 9 in. Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink (brushmarkers, gel pens), oil paints, linseed oil. |
The True and Only Divination
Concept I. Pen & ink. June 4, 2020
"Existence is the first and truest proof of the right to exist. Those who cannot claim and hold existence do not deserve it. This is the true and only divination, a game whose losers are not just forgotten but are never born at all."
"The Wager" in the book of Unveiling, Destiny 2: Shadowkeep (2019) Behind the Teeth:
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The True and Only Divination. Oil on white canvas. June 15, 2020
Height: 16 in.
Width: 12 in. Materials: Drawing pencils, pen & ink, oil paints, linseed oil. |
1) Pre-Concept I Ideation: Dominion of the Orbweavers. May 19, 2020
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2) Underpainting Layer. June 4, 2020
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3) First Color Layer. June 8, 2020
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4) "Overpainting" Layer. June 15, 2020
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