a snow leopard walking through deep snow from left to right, look out at the viewer. Shades of white, buff, blue and brown. Mixed media, black tea, oil crayons, water colours, white gesso. Maria Strutz
My first contribution to #AnimalMarch
- a snow leopard π€πΎπΏ
The buff of the leopard's pelt comes from black tea
I didn't get to finish it - other things got in the way. But I shall return to it.
It is rare for something shot in Manchester to feel absolutely Hooklandian, but Small Prophets is a rare thing - an esoteric TV comedy that grows the heart. Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Small Prophets is television treasure.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
a fox looking out at the viewer. In the foreground the ribs of a fox surrounding a group of bees, the central bee performing the waggle dance. The fox is surrounded by a tunnel of a thorn hedge, blackberry and dogrose flowers. Linedrawing, black tea, turmeric, beetroot ink. Shades of white, yellow and orange brown. Maria Strutz
Fox and blossoms and bones and bees π€
- Black tea, turmeric and beetroot ink
#FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay π¦πΎπΏ
a multitude of bees in various groups, several performing the waggle dance. Linedrawing, shades of purple and yellow. Blackberry ink and turmeric. Maria Strutz
a study of bees π
Linedrawing coloured with turmeric and blackberry ink πΏπΎπ
That name rings a bell! Didn't he do a book about World of Warcraft a few years back?
It's really good stuff, and deserves more attention!
Very bold!
New Blog post. A quick romp through the twenty-five tattvas ("principles") of classical SaαΉkhyΔ - a very influential system for early yoga philosophy and later adopted by the tantric traditions.
enfolding.org/tattvas-in-s...
If you haven't already, make sure to sign up for this fab FREE event next Thursday! #FolkloreThursday, @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social and @theforemotherscafe.bsky.social all on one day!
Slide from 2022 presentation by Phil Hine & Patricia MacCormack on Lovecraft & Cinema. Screenshots from: The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Quatermass & the Pit, The Rough Magik Iniative and Crouch End.
Flyer from a 2022 presentation by myself and Patricia MacCormack on Lovecraft & Cinema.
Also this essay by Patricia MacCormack may be of interest:
www.pomoculture.org/2013/09/03/l...
Slide from 2016 lecture. Left - illustration from "Psychonaut" by PJ Carroll by Brian Ward (1982) and how it was used in a panel from 2000AD's "Zenith Phase 1" by artist Steve Yoewell and writer Grant Morrison.
Slide from the lecture - Illustration by Brian Ward from "Psychonaut" by PJ Carroll and how it appeared in 2000AD's "Zenith" by Grant Morrison. Artist Steve Yoewell.
Flyer for a presentation London Fortean Society "Cthulhu and Contemporary Occultures". Images: Head of H.P. Lovecraft and Representation of Cthulhu. Text introducing presentation by Phil Hine and Dr. Justin Woodman. Thursday 31 March 2016.
Here's a flyer from something we did back in 2016.
Justin and I have done the odd presentation together. He's an excellent scholar.
If you want to read an excellent thesis on contemporary Magic, check out Dr. Justin Woodman's writings - available on his homepage.
Nice to see someone making use of my old mate Justin's work on Lovecraftian magic!
Cover of Martyn Goff's 1957 novel "The Plaster Fabric" shows man in uniform in foreground, a man and woman in a doorway in the background. Illustration by John Minton.
I have just started on Martyn Goff's 1957 novel "The Plaster Fabric".
Gosh I must have overdosed on Kenneth Grant to write such pomposity!
My tribute to the shades of Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, and Hugh Paddick.
enfolding.org/bona-shamans/
It's very good. I actually read it several years ago but its good to have it again.
Cover of "Fantabulosa: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language" by Paul Baker shows two gay men larking about.
Another recent acquisition. Paul Baker's "Fantabulosa: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language".
If you have ever wanted to hear me talk about the role of Forteana and folklore within Hookland in an East End pub β¦. April is your lucky month.
As an author, I tell others my walks among the feral graves of Ashcourt Necropolis are for finding names for my characters. This is a partial truth. I also wander where the names are obscured to collect dead whisperers and growls. To become entangled in the dreams of bones. βΒ #CLNolan
a three headed fox cub with heads looking forward, the left and right. Surrounded by mushrooms, dogrose leaves and flowers. Linedrawing, tea amd beetroot ink, Maria Strutz
Cerberus as a cub - playful and curious guardian of the Underworld π€π¦π€
#FoxFriday
Re reading Modern Nature by Derek Jarman in anticipation of his birthday on 31st January. I am constantly affirmed in my feeling it is one of rhe most spiritual books I have ever read.
book cover. Simon Young's "The Witches and Fairies of Nineteenth-Century Ilkley". Illustration on cover of a woodcut showing Pan-like figure with horns and hooves dancing in front of a ring of dancing figures. He holds a lighted torch and a broom.
A new book acquisition. Simon Young's "The Witches and Fairies of Nineteenth-Century Ilkley".
a seated fox facing forward and head tilted slightly towards the left. Behind the fox a multitude of tails flickering like flames. A nightsky and crescent moon behind her (waning moon top right). Linedrawing, watercolours, blackberry ink, rosehip ink, oil pastels. Shades of orange, rustfoxbrown, dark blue, black and white, Maria Strutz
My favourite little vixen, reimagined as a many-tailed fox
#FoxFriday π¦ππ
How battlefield became 'England's most haunted'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We wander winter afternoons where the light is too weak to keep the ghosts at bay. Stumble onto paths that can only be haunted. Each footstep scuffs up stories, scuffs up spirits. We walk and leave a wake of whispers. βΒ #DAKilroy, 1982
