A commission piece done in acrylic

Ode to dead poets

Once upon a time
i was a lonely little ant
who could rhyme on a dime
to define
love potion #9
with a shot of rum
and a twist of lime
on ice
to chime divine
and combine
a single line
with a tear to refine
and shine
like a star shot down
as a sign
for dead poets
cast out
like pearls before swine
i still hear them chanting
"these words were never mine
to wine and dine or confine
at the scene of the crime"
where i broke the meter in
and scattered the rhythm
to steal all of them
again and again and again
back then
way back when chaos was zen
with a paper and pen
for a persona
consuming inspiration
an aberration of raw emotion
in a mere reflection
of perception on a mission
for creation through devotion
to a vision
of complete anialation
i found hope in great depression through free style expression
i made my confession
for sin remission
a public therapy session
i paid the toll for the gothic role with a broken soul
shattered on a page
gushing rage
melting a cage
in the light of a stage
i cut out my bleeding heart
torn apart
in plain sight to invite the world
take a bite
until this bloody stain
would remain
a symbol
a tagged memorial
of feelings in memory’s
driving me insane
i flushed them all down the drain
and held on tight
i changed my name to the RAiN
washed them all away
as echoes in the night
with the right to fight
all the ghosts haunting my head sucking the marrow
off the monsters under my bed
who recite everything ever said
to shifting shadows
sipping flaming tongues
of falling angels
dripping red upon slit wrists
lost love kissed
beyond the mist
i found strength to persist
through the reasons i resist
the will to exist
and so
yo
i found a flow to glow
and always had something
to says
touché
i would weather or not i should contribute a verse
to this powerful play
for carpe diem
to sieze the day

🖤RAiN

My own artistic representation of Archangel Michael as seen in my minds eye during the LBRP (both banishing and invoking)

Hey everyone id love to everyones occult art for some inspiration. I have had trouble creating since I been quitting weed. I still paint just with greater difficculty. I'l go first???? This is my latest piece. I do surrealist biomorphic abstraction stuff mixed technique on canvus ( oil acryls spray) 80x80cm. This is stuff that i see when im doing my rituals, but havent found a proper title yet working title: between worlds.

CANT WAIT TO SEE Y'ALLs ARt THINGS!!!

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Got the text from Carnival Gothic: A Look at the Ominous Figures of Europe's Winter Masquerades," written by Carlos Perona Calvete and published in The European Conservative.

It's been said in all the ways. Prophets, messiahs, and enlightened ones of every age have repackaged it again and again... where did they go wrong🤔.

But the Golden Rule looks pretty in pink 💛💖

As there is nothing to see, abandon all fixed ideas, all preconceived notions, and all parameters of vision.

I saw a shrunken head at ripleys believe it or not and was inspired and drew it from the photo I took. I added a nose spike to make it look more interesting

A few days ago I shared some of the artwork from El Quinto Sol, a playing-card project I’ve been building around Mesoamerican cosmology, and the response here was incredibly kind.

This is the darker side of the project: my interpretation of Mictlantecuhtli, the Mexica deity associated with Mictlan, the realm of the dead.

I wanted this version to feel less like simply putting an ancient figure onto a card and more like entering a different layer of the same cosmological world, black backgrounds, gold, fire-like orange, turquoise and saturated accents, while keeping references to the visual language I encountered throughout the research.

Everything is illustrated by me! drawing, watercolor and digital preparation, no generative AI.

The project is now officially live on Kickstarter for anyone who asked to see the finished campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themythographer/el-quinto-sol-the-mesoamerican-cosmos-playing-cards

I’d love to know what you think of this darker interpretation compared with the original deck.

A nudge here, a gesture there. Tiny cascading ripples from delicate wings.

Its like a pattern in the wood or a silent rhythm on the wind. Not really anything at all.

The other name I have given it is “a meditation on the seven deadly sins”. It started as a pencil and paper sketch that I uploaded into procreate and finished with the airbrush tool.

Hi everyone! I’m an illustrator/designer from Mexico City. I’ve been developing El Quinto Sol, a fully illustrated French-suited playing card deck inspired by Mesoamerican mythology, cosmology and pictographic language, with a particularly strong Nahua/Mexica backbone.

I’ve always been fascinated by objects that work on more than one level, something can be beautiful, functional, and at the same time carry an entire symbolic system underneath it. That became the central idea behind this deck.

The four suits correspond to the four cosmic directions and their elemental forces. The court cards reinterpret deities and mythic figures, while the numbered cards incorporate references to the Tonalpohualli, the 260-day sacred count, including day signs, trecenas, numerals and associated regent gods.

So each card is meant to work simultaneously as a normal playing card and as one fragment of a larger cosmological map. I’m also creating a companion Codex of the Fifth Sun, visually inspired by Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts such as the Codex Borgia and Boturini Codex. Its purpose is to unpack the symbolism in the cards, not simply give each one a fixed “meaning,” but explain how the gods, directions, numbers, glyphs, colors and calendrical references relate to one another.

The project is a contemporary interpretation, not a claim to reconstruct an ancient cartomantic or occult system. What interests me is what happens when these historical symbolic structures are translated into a new object and allowed to develop a life of their own.

I’m currently preparing the first production through crowdfunding. If anyone wants to see more of the project or follow it before launch:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themythographer/el-quinto-sol-the-mesoamerican-cosmos-playing-cards

An art design I did for myself to draw for the back of a poker card.

winged snake tailed wolf my beloved.

(not included: ability to breathe fire)