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九水巷 aka 999999999sx aka Jiushui Xiang (Chinese) - 小湖 (Small Lake), Digital Art

started thinking abt annihilation while i was working on those FL wildlife stamps and i thought it'd be fun to come up a set of stamps based on scenes from the book, which then got me thinking abt the poor usps worker stuck making the trek out to the border to drop off & pick up the mail. i assume it'd be similar to the process for sending & receiving mail from remote research stations, like mcmurdo in antarctica. here's the first two of the set, exploring the descent/ascent into the tower & first contact w the crawler

img sources: bulletin monumental, v.35 (1869), société française d'archéologie / stone staircase at fort point, san francisco, CA (2014), wikicommons id: tcolburn52

Daily Drawing February 3/29.

“Stitching through the sky, in a terrifying way—rippling, diving, rising again, and there came a terrible whispering that pierced not his ears but all of him, as if small particles of something physical had shot through him. He cursed, frozen there, watching, afraid.”

Excerpt from Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer, the third book in the Southern Reach Series- my favorite books of all time 💚 the imagery and description of the unfathomable things that exist and happen in Area X is just so good, I have been trying to finish fanart for it for a long time- but it's so hard to do the source justice.

Physarum cinereum by Alison Pollack

Rustaq, Oman

@davidgarlandmakes

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

i think about how the biologist wants to be able to "appear sociable but still exist apart" every single day. every moment. its burned into my skull basically. its such a profound and relatable sentiment that only makes sense if you have lived that. its legendary. me too biologist. me too.

Kim Dorland (Canadian, b. 1974), Midnight, 2010. Oil, acrylic and gems on linen, 42 x 72 in.

Magical morning in the marsh

overgrown and overthinking 

Moss

thinking abt area x again... inspired by annihilation (2014) by jeff vandermeer

Greenwater to Lost Lake, September 2021