SYZYGY:
A Continuation of the AP Art and Design Sustained Investigation
Conviction
"That monster... will never forgive us."
Godzilla: Minus One (2023)
Godzilla: Minus One (2023)
Conviction. Procreate for iPad. January 11, 2024
Unconsciousness
"Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
Serial Homology. Pen & Ink. July 6, 2022
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The Elder One. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). July 28, 2020
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Unveiling
"In the end... we are free."
The Witness, Destiny 2: Lightfall (2023)
The Witness, Destiny 2: Lightfall (2023)
We are Free (In the End). Procreate for iPad. September 16, 2022
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Witness. Pencils. June 3, 2023
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Messages from the Deep
"Dreams are messages from the deep."
Inaudible voice, Dune (2021)
Inaudible voice, Dune (2021)
Something of Another Planet. Pen & Ink. June 18, 2022
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Messages from the Deep. Procreate for iPad. October 22, 2021
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Annihilation
"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)
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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Long Forgotten
"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)
Underpainting. Procreate for iPad. January 10, 2022
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Long Forgotten. Procreate for iPad. January 16, 2021
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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) |
The End Will Eat Everything
"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)
Chapter DLXXIX of the Chronicon, Destiny 2: Forsaken (2019)
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) "[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) |
The End Will Eat Everything. Oil on white panel. September 13, 2020
Nameless Rites and Deeds, Veiled in Darkness. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). September 6, 2020
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The Great Shroud of the Sea
"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)
The Great Shroud of the Sea. Procreate for iPad. August 1, 2021
Dream Quietly Away
"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)
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
Dream Quietly Away. Procreate for iPad. June 30, 2021
Once in a Blue Moon. Oil on white panel. October 31, 2020
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The Devil's Reaper. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). October 17, 2020
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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..."
W.C. Hooker, In the Mouth of Madness (2021) |
Walpurgisnachtmare
"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)
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Walpurgisnachtmare. Procreate for iPad. April 30, 2021
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Captain Calamari. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). August 2, 2020
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A God Incarnate
"A god incarnate. A city doomed."
Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, Shin Gojira (2016)
Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, Shin Gojira (2016)
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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Answer Our Prayers
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
Toby Ziegler, The West Wing (2002)
Toby Ziegler, The West Wing (2002)
As it is Written. Oil on white panel. December 16, 2020
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Perish Gaze. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). August 22, 2020
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Answer Our Prayers. Oil on white canvas. July 25, 2020
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"As it is written... [the] harbingers of the end-times, primordial forces of chaos and destruction."
The Codex, Doom: Eternal (2020)
The Codex, Doom: Eternal (2020)
Touch of Malice
"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)
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror (1928)
Touch of Malice. Oil on white canvas. July 18, 2020
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Heartbeat of Hell. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). October 29, 2020
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Somnambulism
"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)
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
Interstellar Convergence. Oil on white canvas. September 8, 2020
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The Pentaptych. Oil on white canvas. September 8, 2020
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The Iridescent Maw
"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)
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
The Iridescent Maw. Oil on white canvas. May 17, 2020
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Wraith Covenant. Pen & ink (gels, brushmarkers). August 10, 2020
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The True and Only Divination
"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)
"The Wager" in the Book of Unveiling, Destiny 2: Shadowkeep (2019)
Concept I. Pen & ink. June 4, 2020
Behind the Teeth:
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The True and Only Divination. Oil on white canvas. June 15, 2020
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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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