Æiden Swan
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Æiden Swan
@arcanaverte.bsky.social
Cape Town based Wildlife Artist, Witch, Mousebird wrangler.
www.arcanaverte.com
Really - the first time I ate breakfast in MY LIFE was after I moved out on my own. I suppose I've been working through my real trauma for so many years before this that some forgotten aspect of my parent's food idiocy is the best that could be found 😂
June 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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May 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Some I saw in Zim, and some that I just love, and have hung them from gilded brass chain and crytals to create a small selection of unusual sun catchers!
There are only 6 since that is all the bark I had!
Still images in the next post
May 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Over the past few weeks since we have been back, I have bedecked them with tiny oil paintings of African Bird species -
May 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
... to Awagami's print competition. To my knowledge, they don't actually hunt Leguaans, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did if given the chance and that would be a battle for the ages to behold!
May 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
...and sometimes raid nests in the palm outside our apartment window. I've only ever painted them once - as Judgement in my Tarot deck, but have felt strongly called to them recently, so I decided to create a lino print of a Gymnogene fighting a leguaan (Rock Monitor lizard) for my entry...
May 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Well, I suppose my patreon will actually cover my car insurance this month
April 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
After an intense vet treatment and a month of calcium injections, careful diet and so much love, she is now absolutely thriving! She growing so fast is now an energetic, round little cuddle with her own personality who has totally integrated with Luna and Zephyr. 🪶
April 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
She was so malnourished she was just bone, covered in baldspots and her feathers were falling out. She could barely lift her head.
Dr Karli gave her a less than 50% chance of surviving.
🧵
April 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
She was a fraction of the size and development she should have been, had brittle malformed bones, intestinal sloughing -her intestines were falling apart due to been fed pronutro. a terrible parasite infestation -been kept with cats and allowed to play where the cats poop 🤢who tf does that? 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Wazô's whole family had been killed by this woman cutting down a tree in the middle of nesting season without checking for nests, I won't even go into the absolute cruelty this little bird suffered at the hands of this ignorant and unwilling to learn human over the next three weeks. 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
For those who missed the original post: When she came to us just over a month ago, she was a very sick and malnourished due to the woman who had kept her for three weeks previously had fed her an incorrect diet which included actually rotten fruit. 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM