anachronistique:

crackerhell:

Concept art for Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid by Chad Weatherford

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YES????

i believe in the one true electric lady and savior cindi mayweather

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motherfuckinfox:

Can you appreciate that this is an animated drawing of someone drawing and it’s fucking perfect.

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abigaillarson:

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Abigail Larson

There’s a tendency toward using the word “timeless” to describe mythic or fantastical art. The themes, figures, and symbols in fantasy art are atemporal, so this thought goes, and to gaze at them gives a momentary escape from one’s mortality or finitude. As persuasive as this is, I think an opposite effect is just as true: that one feels most human, most themselves in the presence of the fantastical.

Abigail Larson’s work very strongly evokes this latter feeling. Her painting and illustration is deeply seasonal; that is, her work captures a sense of time’s immensity and endless movement. The figures in her work are what Aleister Crowley might have called “praeter-human:” beings or “intelligences” in a heightened reality, occasionally intersecting with our own and infusing it with a sense of magic and possibility. Beautiful, definitely, but in an intimidating and powerful way.

It’s that sense of power and immensity that gives even Larson’s most delicate pieces their potent effect. Witnessing the gorgeous and vivid depth of mythical life in her work gives us a palatable and vertiginous sense of our own finitude and “mere” humanity by comparison. It allows us to assume the position of ephemeral, enrapt humanity in the reflection of shimmering, bewildering beauty. To feel shaped by the worlds we invent to exceed our own.

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Gorgeously written commentary on my work from the fellows at Pixel Union. I’m so flattered!

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