Novus

Gates of Heaven

bhare

skulls eat apples

bojan

the things I saw, they haunt me after my demise  
the things I saw, they pain my tearful bleeding eyes

Cranium

Under the surface is a rose bed.
It forever blooms and withers.
Each bloom brings flowers,
each wither leaves thorns.

No one knows about my garden.
It is hidden away under my coarse, worn skin.
But I let it bloom and wither,
and bring flowers,
and leave thorns.


Perennial Bloom 

There was no vibration in the sky that night. A goblet fell to the ground, an angel died and a pixie was born from her wings.

“No Angels Tonight” is the genesis artwork of ‘Hentazm’ Series inspired by Japanese erotic miniatures (Hentai) and twisted with the effects of the Pop Culture. 

No Angels Tonight

Manfredi Caracciolo

Not delivered

All Time High on Centauri

Mediolanum

As I push toward a new path
I find myself accepting who I am 

Clenching my jaw as I pause 
Accepting All My Flaws 


Accepting All My Flaws 

The embers burn for all eternity  
Embers that reside within me  
As I walk through these desolate lands  
The fire guides a path from where I stand

Burn Baby Burn! #13/25

4800 x 6000px
300dpi

3D, AI, Analog Texture, Scan + Digital Manipulation.

Secrets On The Shoreline

Better By Myself

Destruction Of An Artist

This 1/1 will come with it's original physical art, signed and framed, if the initially set reserve of the listing is met.

Physical Art Size: 8.5" x 11" 

Curatus

This 1/1 will come with it's original physical art if the initially set reserve (first listed reserve) of the listing is met. 

Physical Art Size: 8.5" x 11"

Crimson Friend

Together

Voyager

Alone

This 1/1 will come with it's original physical art, signed and framed, if the initially set reserve (first listed reserve) of the listing is met.

Physical Art Size: 8.5" x 11"

Infectious Greed

'BLeU Frequency' X tjo

Paradise

Innocence

Naturally weathered paper distressed with oils, alcohol ink, dirt and other abrasives accompanied by hand drawn digital assets + digital manipulations.

The Sigil Of Connection

Balancing Beliefs

Sunder

something bleu covers me whole, maybe warmer than the stove. a happier bleu. 

Mixed media digital collage with physically scanned assets. October 2022, Procreate, Art Set 4 & Art Rage Vitae. 

Contains Tjo's Creative Commons licensing (CC0) of BLeU, September 2022.

a bleu sunday

digital oil painting, procreate, art set 4, artrage vitae.  
as the kindling fire keeps them warm, here they gather to share stories unheard by most. surely these slightly normal folks lack the layers for it to be put into writing.  
allegory - a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

not an allegory, just a group of slightly normal people

Lately, I’ve lost a lot of my appetite; everything seems unappetizing. When I try to step back into the kitchen, I’m reminded of the days on the line: flames running amok, oil splatters on the ground, a sea of tickets and the sick feeling deep in my stomach. I become lost in a cloud of smoke and steam. Still, the food was frozen, if there was anything there that you could call food. Nothing could warm it.

In those moments, I long for the taste of simpler times, where flavors were not lost in the chaos. The joy of cooking was nothing more than a distant memory.

Digital Painting 
Procreate, Art Set 4, Artrage

Dinner served cold, again

keeping pace

i only feel a little sick, let's keep going.

carsick

7ftx5ft  
acrylic, oil pastel, oilstick on canvas  
digital authentication for strawberries are invasive. as showcased on july 22nd, 2023 for the Blaq Sheep exhibition in LA.

strawberries are invasive

scrapbooked thoughts

It’s usually hard for me to fall asleep. I try to picture myself suspended in the air, floating towards nowhere. I have a song that sticks in my head, that quietly hums a fond memory holding a heavy weight.

*Acrylic, Oil pastel and marker on Canvas + digital edits*

**Minimum bid increase of $20.**

ode to sleep #6/10

the departure #9/69

in the resistance of peace, next to nothing i’m also full.

pulled from bhare’s “open to the public journal”

next to nothing

i think i find myself waiting, simply because i can't trust what i am feeling. so everything must go, even if it is my head. 

everything must go, i mean everything

7ftx5ft
acrylic, oil pastel, oil stick on canvas 
the digital authentication for strawberries are invasive. as showcased for the blaq sheep exhibition with superchief gallery LA  on july 22nd, 2023.

strawberries are invasive 

i heard deer have velvet horns, i wonder if they feel soft. 

Acts as the digital authenticity for the physical counterpart.

fell on horns

dusk to dawn

token designed for raffles/giveaways held by bhare. 

rain check 

i’m headed out to go shopping on central ave.

groceries on saturday

"The Wounded Artist" is the second artwork of the "Lacrima" series. With a name inspired from the Latin word for tear, the "Lacrima" series covers the duality of life, the contrast between tears of pain and tears of joy, expressed through gloomy atmospheres of caliginous, surrealist scenes.

"I sit in the darkness, I paint through the pain, the wounds are my colors, the canvas my terrain."

The Wounded Artist

I stare as the sun goes down, hoping to see you in the fading view, waiting for you, hoping that you are waiting too.

Golden Hour

Faced with my burden, an unbearable horror, do I face it? 
No, I look away
A riderless life, waiting for its rider, do I bestride it? 
No, I look away
I see light, I see gold, a key I that need to hold, do I seize it? 
No, I look away
I stand in front of the door, what is behind it, do I wander more? 
No, I look away
The spear of time stabs me, leaves me bleeding, do I use it?
No, I look away
A demon comes for my eyes, he feeds off my demise, do I confront him?       No, I look away
A demon wearing my face, saying, 
“Don’t worry, just look away”

In the end, I ask you about life       Do you face it?
Do you bestride it?       Do you seize it?
Do you wander more?
Do you use it?
Do you confront it?

Or do you just look away?

Look Away

Emotional Baggage is the third artwork in the Odyssey Ablaze series. 
Odyssey Ablaze is a story following Ignis Stello and his pursuit of finding a purpose in life. On his mission Ignis goes through a wide spectrum of emotional and mental states, often doubting if he will ever be able to find what he is looking for. His odyssey is a symbol of the unavoidable struggles on the journey to a purposeful life, with every obstacle thrown in the way. 

"No way to win, loneliness knocked no matter the choice. Left me with a heart of spikes, either way I pick it up it stings, a sting of emptiness, helplessness and fear.

A heart I have to carry until it's fused to my skin, until it becomes a part of me, until it becomes a scar that can't be hidden.

A heart that was once soft as a cloud, a cloud that even cupids were jealous of, now turned solid, heavier than the biggest mountain.

A heart I'd choose to cary all over again, knowing everything that it was, is and could've been."

Emotional Baggage

"Kissatomy" is the third artwork of the "Lacrima" series. With a name inspired from the Latin word for tear, the "Lacrima" series covers the duality of life, the contrast between tears of pain and tears of joy, expressed through gloomy atmospheres of caliginous, surrealist scenes.

An interactive artwork covering the duality of love, filled with all of its beauty and chaos. There's no beauty without chaos, there's no chaos without beauty.

Kissatomy

Stuck in the middle, torn between evil and good  
Should I accept or refuse one or both, wondering there I stood  
The dichotomy of self, a torture to my core  
Composing the chaotic balance like never before  


Dichotomy

Judgement Day is the fourth artwork in the Odyssey Ablaze series. 
Odyssey Ablaze is a story following Ignis Stello and his pursuit of finding a purpose in life. On his mission Ignis goes through a wide spectrum of emotional and mental states, often doubting if he will ever be able to find what he is looking for. His odyssey is a symbol of the unavoidable struggles on the journey to a purposeful life, with every obstacle thrown in the way.

In quiet desperation, I kneel and plead,  
Asking for mercy, a chance to be freed,  
For the burdens of guilt, stuck in the depths I shiver and bleed,  
I hear the voice of judgment "I know what you did, I know your every deed"

Judgement Day

"Leaving A Void" is the fourth artwork of the "Lacrima" series. With a name inspired from the Latin word for tear, the "Lacrima" series covers the duality of life, the contrast between tears of pain and tears of joy, expressed through gloomy atmospheres of caliginous, surrealist scenes.

“Left home for a better future, one of uncertainty, doubt and fear. A void impossible to fill no matter where I go, I cannot find a place so dear.”

Leaving A Void

I missed my chance to look for you, the only hope keeping me afloat, can't help but feel doomed like a sinking boat.

That Ship Has Sailed

Danger Zone is the second artwork in the Odyssey Ablaze series. 
Odyssey Ablaze is a story following Ignis Stello and his pursuit of finding a purpose in life. On his mission Ignis goes through a wide spectrum of emotional and mental states, often doubting if he will ever be able to find what he is looking for. His odyssey is a symbol of the unavoidable struggles on the journey to a purposeful life, with every obstacle thrown in the way. 

“My past, pulling me back, back to a place that I ran from, inside me waking up the guilt of leaving, leaving my safe place, my comfort zone. Tempted to stop and turn back, constantly in a war with myself, I step on the pedal as hard as I can, in hopes that the rope would suddenly snap. I see a sign, a burning one, reminding me of the danger and doubts, giving me one last chance to stop and turn back or carry on and face the unknown that is the danger zone.”

Danger Zone

"Look Away" is the first artwork of the "Lacrima" series. With a name Inspired from the Latin word for tear, the "Lacrima" series covers the duality of life, the contrast between the tears of pain and the tears of joy, expressed through gloomy atmospheres of caliginous, surrealist scenes.

"Look Away" covers a story about a character fearing to face life with all of its obstacles and challenges. A life that is represented by a riderless horse holding the key to the bright future, a future peaking through a crack in the locked door. As time passes by the character realises the unbearable truth, he writes a note saying "I am my demon" as he takes away and burns his eyes.

A lone tower in the arid plains. Made from construction paper and tagboard and photo'd under natural lighting.

Cracked Earth

Analog Collage paired with an RFNFT NFC chip

Sources: 
-9 copies of Greys Anatomy (various editions)  
-Enchanting Fairly Library: The Princess and the Goblin (date unknown, first edition?)  
-The Real Mother Goose (1943)  
-The Gods Are Athirst (date unknown)  
-G U E S S by L.J. Bridgman (1901)  
-Archibalds Poems (unknown)  
-Printmakers to the American People (1942)  
-Countryside: Mclaughlin Bros (1926)  
-Children of Other Lands (1943)

Biblically Accurate Angel Bringing Biblically Accurate Guillotines For Our Biblically Accurate Politicians

Piece is an imagination of a text-to-image dialogue with Stable Diffusion 1.6 UI.  NFC chip in 13x23 physical through RFNFT. All comic books sources used for collage added to metadata through Atomic Form

Call and Response

Book your perfect weekend getaway. Made from construction paper and tagboard and photo'd under natural lighting  

Endless Horizon

1 of 1.

Just a traveler on the path of introspection.

Journey Through the Mind

Every dusk the city begins to blush as the sunset kisses it one last time. Made from construction paper and tagboard and photo'd under natural lighting

Kissed

A two part diptych inspired by the Manga of the same name.  Created with construction paper, watercolor paper, old book pages, and acrylic applied with a wire scrub brush.

Uzumaki (I)

If you dont make the product, you are the product. Hand-cut collage made only using National Geographic magazines.

Always For Hire 1/15

1 of 1.  

Possibly the hardest hitting National Geographic collage ever created.

Shoutout to DJ Screw

Resuscitated by Lean

Recreation of a landscape piece made by my grandfather.  Homage made entirely with the 1942 book 'Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People'.  

Italian Waterway

Let the light guide you. Made from construction paper and tagboard and photo'd under natural lighting .

The Seeker

1 of 1. Spraypaint and Collage.  Exclusive Redeemable Voucher.  Companion piece to 'Faceless // Maskless'.  

*Exclusive redeemable voucher program means owner may burn this NFT and send .5 ETH to artist to be mailed the framed original physical.  Must contact Cat Russell first to confirm/arrange. While artist does not recommend you do this, it does confirm that at all times this NFT is physically backed by its real-world original.

Maskless // Conscience

Like a painter making an abstract scene.

Ink and paper on Manila folder

Case File 5: Scene of the Crime

Cancerous cells, surgical journals, and an imposing wraith 

They Don't Like To Talk About It

Always For Hire 5/15

1of1 airdrop reward for purchase of Cat Russell NFT Yearbook cover

Between the Pages

'Fvck That Noise' is a collaborative work between Dolce Paganne and DarkMarkArt conceptualized as the adult portrait of an Alice in Wonderland. 

Dolce Paganne: "The experience of drawing on the photography of DarkMarkArt was similar with diving deep to the inner world of the powerful&audacious woman character he portrayed off. I worked on the art in a time period I was feeling a social opression; all I want was to be isolated and this artwork was the perfect escape to shut up the noise in my mind, the woman gazing to me and saying: Fvck That Noise!"

DarkMarkArt: "Dolce Paganne's work is personal and very recognizable, I love her style, her characters. A sometimes dark world that is able to takes you to another dimension full of mystery and fascinating details.  
The idea of working with her was exhilarating, realizing a project together, with the aim of uniting our styles and creating something uniquely, harmonious, from photography to pure drawing, together, and as a subject the woman, sensitive but strong, deep, intense, a warrior, sometimes lost, but able to fight."

Fvck That Noise

Three witches in the Barney’s Circus of Freaks before the coven's meeting in the pits of Inferno…Living dolls, butterflies, cat girls, 6 armed wonders! What were they up to?

Tenebrarum

“Seed” is a hereditary curse transmitted from father to daughter. A disease? Evil is sneaky. It hides inside the roots of the sacred tree and is chasing your weakest moments to penetrate. Once the temptation is triggered the return isn’t easy. *Inspired by the Southern gothic novel of Ania Ahlborn focused on a modern demon possession story, published in 2020 by Suntup Editions.

It Was Rats

“Seed” is a hereditary curse transmitted from father to daughter. A disease? 

Evil is sneaky. It hides inside the roots of the sacred tree and is chasing your weakest moments to penetrate. Once the temptation is triggered the return isn’t easy.

*Inspired by the Southern gothic novel of Ania Ahlborn focused on a modern demon possession story, published in 2020 by Suntup Editions.

The Roots

“Seed” is a hereditary curse transmitted from father to daughter. A disease? Evil is sneaky. It hides inside the roots of the sacred tree and is chasing your weakest moments to penetrate. Once the temptation is triggered the return isn’t easy. *Inspired by the Southern gothic novel of Ania Ahlborn.

Charlie&Nubs

Time flows and "Lady with an Ermine" of da Vinci stands in the middle of the vortex: standing means "transformation".

Time is a Dragon

“Seed” is a hereditary curse transmitted from father to daughter. A disease? Evil is sneaky. It hides inside the roots of the sacred tree and is chasing your weakest moments to penetrate. Once the temptation is triggered the return isn’t easy. *Inspired by the Southern gothic novel of Ania Ahlborn focused on a modern demon possession story, published in 2020 by Suntup Editions.  

Seed

Miss Coco was 'proud' of her young girls trapped in her basement, whom she had seduced for a fancy dress award. A dress that is worth everything, a dress that is worth nothing...

Miss Coco aka Lucifer

Her scream was echoing into the void of Æthernal.

Æthernal

♾️Time is a dragon, the oldest of dragons. It burns and swallows everything in its path. There was only one way to survive in the vortex it had created: change. Everything that does’nt change deserves death, according to Time♾️

(The artwork is a contemporary interpretation of the painting "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci, 1489-1491) 

"And the birds carried her soul away to the lonely castle of moonlight."
About the collection: Hentazm is a series holding a mirror to the female eroticism that is repressed for ages. In this Japanese art and Hentai culture inspired cross-platform fairy tale you can often encounter: nymphs, forest fairies, seductive vampires and red delicious (but poisonous) fruits all around….
Medium: Traditional drawing with pencils, ink and watercolor on paper, adapted to digital


The Nymph Blooming at Moonlight

1692 is a colored pencil&soft pastel drawing by Dolce Paganne inspired by Salem Witch Trials. “In Girum Imus Nocte et Consimimur Igni” (We Spin Around the Night and Consumed by the Fire) 1872x2500 px 

1692

Lupus is a graphite drawing created by Dolce Paganne. The artwork is inspired by a wolf  in "timbuktu" state, he howled to the sky one last time before the death arrived.  3872x5000 px

Lupus

today I spoke to medvsa, the most beautiful monster I knew in the land I am born in. she told me: "don’t feel upset. they will blame you, they will want to deny whatever you do. let it go. the important thing is to be able to stand in the center of your own true nature."

Towards Medvsa

An uninterested observer and his morning paper.

Morning paper

Manfredi Caracciolo, 2022 / 2135 × 3280 px

Art Matters

My intrusive self

Party for One

Is it because I'm not prepared, or is there something deeper going on?

Heavy Thoughts

Allegory of the Cave, II

Allegory of the Cave, I

Manfredi Caracciolo, 2022 / 2411 × 3507 px

Burnout

No signal

Overwhelmed by the Noise

A thousand miles away

Imagine a lift that can switch between dimensions.

Astral Tramway

The calls you don't answer

I might be vanishing

"[...] You hear of the upper Zemrude chiefly from those who remember it, as they sink into the lower Zemrude, following every day the same stretches of street and
finding again each morning the ill-humor of the day
before, encrusted at the foot of the walls."

-Zemrude, a tribute to Italo Calvino

Zemrude

Artwork generated using p5.js and ChatGPT

A Moment Of Peace Amidst Chaos

Poem inspired by Samantha Cavet's "Self portrait in a field of dreams"

"Wait"

Artwork generated using ChatGPT and p5.js.

I Feel Incomplete Now

Artwork generated using p5.js and ChatGPT.

In Search Of Who I Need

Artwork generated using ChatGPT and p5.js. 

I Hope You Always Shine Brilliantly

A poem inspired by an untitled artwork by Chepertom.  

Never Too Close

Looking back  
I feel that I'm now lost  
I followed their footsteps  
Took the same trail  
Emulated their moves  
Yet here I am  
Without a clue where to go  
I knew they would not bring me  
Where I wanted to be  
It was so easy to follow them  
But with no footprints in front of me  
It is time to make my own way.

Yet Here I Am

All The Way To The End

A Constant Desire To Fit In

Did You Put Something In That

Artwork generated using p5.js and ChatGPT. 

This output was curated into CDIWY by Alex Kittoe.

Return Flight On The Same Day

The place I am most afraid of…

p5js x Midjourney x Procreate

Further Inside My Mind

A poem inspired by "Crescendo" by HIGHDEMAND.

A Sweeter Note

Artwork generated using p5.js and ChatGPT. 

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Never The Two Shall Meet

Poppies

Banished for my sins, cast away to a place I created. 
Being a product of my environment led me to justify this place. I've chosen to accept my past. Perhaps one day I will be able to leave. Until then I am 

Living in my own Purgatory 

Living in my own Purgatory

Empty days passed as I wondered why I wasn't feeling anything. I questioned the thoughts I was having in my head. My pride kept me alive while I wanted to feel something by feeling nothing. 

Constantly asking myself
Why Do I Feel Nothing? 

Why Do I Feel Nothing? 

Restricted to our mortal bodies, we live in this universe awaiting enlightenment. Perhaps one day, we can reach transcendence and join the universe itself. We are merely our past cultures, languages, traditions, motives, and ancestors. We are all more connected than we may believe. 
 
This is an amalgamation of human history, cave paintings, depictions of higher entities, and ourselves. This is Transcendence.  

Transcendence 

We are beings of Expression  
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