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Chronographia
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Home of Crows Before Bros!
(she/they)
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Ok. I’m just. Gonna. Leave this here. I don’t have bargain basement deals, but I do have art. And gift cards. And suchlike. Ok thanks. Love you, byeee. { strangehours.com }
An angled photo of a shadowy wooden surface, on which some dried roses and small hourglasses sit. They frame a large black and white circular vinyl sticker of Strange Hours Atelier’s Crows Before Bros design. A text overlay in a flourishing banner reads: Strange Hours Atelier || Made By Hand In Pgh, PA. A superscript above the banner reads: Printmaking, Corvids A Specialty.
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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And yet a trace of the true self, etc, etc.
The dinosaur to dino nugget meme, which depicts the process of theropod dinosaurs surviving as chickens, chickens becoming foodstuff, and the forming of that foodstuff back into dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. The meme’s text offers the philosophy “And yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The weather was dramatic in Pgh this week, which I am taking as an omen to work on kickstarter rewards for custom-embellished 16: The Tower etchings.

(I assume someone, somewhere has made a yinzer tarot deck. I mean. Clearly. Please exempt me from making one.)
A photo taken while driving through Forbes Ave. in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Midsize buildings both old and new flank the street and its series of stoplights in strong perspective, while the white limestone of the 1920s revival gothic Cathedral of Learning rears into the sky at the end of the street. It is brightly with late afternoon sun from the left, but the sky behind it is full of ominously dark stormclouds. An overhead photo of an intaglio etching depicting the tarot card of The Tower by Jennifer Fabian of Strange Hours Atelier. Rather than the traditional imagery the tower is an Escher-like illusion structure seated on crumbling tiles in a cube-illusion pattern. A photo-realistic sky flashes down a lightning bolt to the top of the tower. Around the print are small, mysterious bottles and burnt matches, sitting on a wooden surface.
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Is it a crime if you don’t get caught, tho.

(This has been on my sticker to-do list for a while.)
A screencap from photoshop, depicting a horizontal oval with the word “Crimes.” in Arts & Crafts era orange lettering. A graphic of a dancing cat playing the banjo is to the right of the text.
July 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This is where I post from.
A Remedios Varo painting called The Creation of Birds. In a soft, shadowy green room, a woman with an owl’s face and feathers sits at a desk with arcane implements attached to an alchemical device next to the desk. Birds are transformed from drawins on the paper into live creatures which then fly out of a pair of arched windows.
July 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Whew, ok. That’s better.
A screencapture from a vector design program of the Strange Hours logotype set in a justified block using an early printing press font. The block sits within the center circle of a classic watch face with Roman numerals and the hour and minute hands removed. Arching over the top center is text for strangehours.com, while the username @chronographia arches under the bottom center. Along the exterior sides of the watch face are delicate radial lines, echoing the subdivisions of the watch face. The design is executed in a series of soft warm greys upon a darker grey circle.
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I made a variant of my logo as a romantasy cover and honestly am kind of angry at myself. It does not adhere to my 20+years of branding. Except it sort of does.

(And, as with anything suspiciously on-trend, it was stupid fast and low-effort to throw together.)
A screencap from a vector program of a logotype for Strange Hours Atelier set in the vernacular design of a romantasy book cover, using a flourishing and vaguely-Victorian-but-not-actually font, with decorative cornerpieces in a matching flouishing, vaguely-faux-Victorian style. The username and website of the artist are placed to suggest an author’s name & publisher. The design uses varying tones of soft warm greys both as ground, embellishments, and main text.
July 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Dear reader, yesterday I got so excited about a van towing an antique hearse that I followed them into a gas station so I could take pictures.
An angled photo of a late 19th/early 20th century hearse carriage strapped to a flat trailer at a gas station. The darkened wooden exterior is decorated with carved drapery and pillars, with large glass windows dimly displaying real drapery and the original wicker casket A rear photo of a late 19th/early 20th century hearse carriage strapped to a flat trailer at a gas station. The darkened wooden exterior is decorated with carved drapery and pillars, with large glass windows dimly displaying real drapery and the original wicker casket. The back either does not open up as with modern hearses, or has very cleverly concealed hinges and latch.
July 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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“WHY ARE YOU EVEN AWAKE AT THIS HOUR,” I yell. “DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW YOU’RE HERE.”

Not actually sure what happened to Stinkpuppy No. 5. (There were five.)
July 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Third and hopefully final round of chemo: done.
Also: hair is growing back but in the meantime I have an excellent hat and a bandana full of swords.
A photo of a pale woman sitting in a car seat flashing the peace signal. She is wearing sunglasses and a big floppy straw hat with a black bandana peeking out from under it showing small white swords and daggers as the pattern. Being in the safety of her vehicle, she is not wearing a protective kn95 mask for once. Her expression is one of slight confusion at having dodged a medical bullet, but she’ll take it.
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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A throwback #Junicorn for Friday, from the year that I based them off of dikdiks, one of the world’s smallest deer. So just imagine this being slightly smaller than a housecat.
A black & white illustration of a unicorn based on the body of a dikdik. It faces the viewer with its haunches splayed out to the right. Tall stylized vegetation surrounds it and occasionally breaks the outlined frame of the illustration. The ground is suggested to be pebbly underfoot. Outside of the frame in the lower right margin is written “Junicorn 1/30”
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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While I’m not actively participating in #Junicorn this year, please know I am 100% thinking about how to bring these guys to their final states.

It seems like a lot of y’all have found previous years’ Junicorns through the tags, but would you like me to do some reposting anyway?
An overhead photo of a partially illustrated sheet of kraft brown sketchbook paper. Red and white ink pick out two medieval-style unicorns rearing up back-to-back and arching their heads around to cross horns. They are encircled in a decorative border, which is then enclosed in a decorative square. Based on an illumination in the Bodliean Library. A screencap from a pen and ink drawing of a unicorn lying odalisque-style in a bed of millefleurs and under a heavily stylized tree. This has been imported into Procreate, and light digital texturing has been applied in mimeograph purple.
June 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Round two of chemo, let’s goooo.

(Feral Matter’s Antidotes & Poisons bandana coming in clutch.)
Selfie of a pale-skinned woman going through chemotherapy and making a peace sign to the camera. She wears a black buttondown shirt, a black bandana printed with esoteric imagery by Feral Matter, and a black KN95 mask. Although she has eyelashes and eyebrows, most of her hair is missing. An IV stand can be seen in the right corner of the photo. White text on black bars repeats the text of the post.
June 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Post a robot not from starwars or transformers
A cinematic screen capture from Blade Runner (1982), with a close up of a replicant eagle owl’s head. Its ear tufts are folded back and it regards the middle distance keenly. The soft, noir-ish lighting catches the reflection of the back of the owl’s right eye, suggesting something is uncanny about the “animal.”
May 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Last selfie with hair for a while
(chemo, etc).

My white streak had better grow back or I will be UPSET.
A selfie of a white woman with long dark hair punctuated by a white streak just to the side of the widow’s peak. She is wearing a black knit cap, a jacket, and a silk scarf. She is also wearing a kn95 mask under a decorative cloth mask, because chemo but make it aesthetic.
April 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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POPPYSEED: OBTAINED.
An overhead photo of a heap of a dozen fresh bagels in different flavors (marble, plain, sesame seed, poppy seed) inside of a brown paper bag.
April 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Let me know when parts one and two are nearing completion, I routinely run into uranium glass sellers at my odd markets. I can do scouting if you’ve something specific in mind.
April 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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If you see this, post a photo from your device, no explanation
An overhead photo of a stapled-together dossier lying across a laptop keyboard. Set in large capital letters in the center of the page, the document is titled “THE INTERNET AN INTRODUCTION” Large blocks of shadow bleed through from the reverse side of the cover sheet, suggesting many screen shots have been printed out in this introduction.
March 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Post your favorite Pokémon, wrong answers only.
A sculpture in the Art Institute of Chicago of a bizarre bat-winged pelican-like creature perched atop a domed rectangular structure that one might find on a balustrade. It is coated in a verdigris green glaze and has protruding yellow eyes. The overall effect is unsettling and cursed. It is unclear if this creature could be classified as “a Pokemon.”
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Quince clippings & Sunday light.
#darlingbuds2k25
A low depth of field photo of budding quince branches against white drapery. Late afternoon light slants in from the right. Many branches show signs of small leaves emerging, but the focus is on a cluster of flower buds at the top of a branch, just about to burst open.
March 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Mom is finally making wine out of the gooseberries, my time has come.

(Bonus pear wine which is pure design self-indulgence on my part.)
A screen capture of a black and white wine label being designed in a vector graphics program. There are three centered blocks of text set in an early 20th century font with fancy capital letters. The letters get increasingly smaller and more spaced out with each block of text. Borrowing a joke from the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, the text reads “The Dowager Lady Ursula’s Homemade Gooseberry Wine.” Then “The Dowager Lady Ursula’s Homeberry Goosewade Mine.” And finally, “the dowager lady ursula’s heymode geese berry woodle.” Small woodcut illustrations of conjoined rings with a waving banner weaving through them separate each of the blocks of text. Decorative ribbons creep in on the top left and lower right corners, bearing the text “No. 79” and “Month ??, Year - contains sulfites & shellfish”. A screen capture of a black and white wine label being designed in a vector graphics program. In a flowing art nouveau frame with stylized fruit and branches weighing down the bottom, large art nouveau letters read “PEAR” with smaller text below it “hosui • bartlett • honey” and “No. 75” In the same font, small text outside of the frame reads “contains sulfites & shellfish” across the top and “bottled on March ???, 2025” along the bottom.
March 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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On brand: Went to the farmers market, brought home a skull.
An overhead photo of a sheep’s skull with large curling horns and a partially broken nose bone sitting on a dark wooden background.
March 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Hey, can someone watch these guys for me while I’m at my doctor’s appointment tomorrow? Their claws snag on everything and they tend to breathe fire the more tangled and panicked they get.
A photo of a brown kraft sketchbook page, with two illustrations of medieval-style wyverns with flexed wings and curling tails, rendered in soft white and crisp black ink.
February 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Red (and more white) ink and really starting to look more cohesive. Black layer next, and probably a black unicorn as well.

(My monochrome printmaking heart still thinks that color should be limited to just details & accents.)
An overhead photo of a “brown kraft” toned sketchbook page laid on a dark wooden surface next to a white gel pen. The drawing depicts two unicorns within a circle that is framed by nested squares. Each border decoration is drawn in white and red ink in the style of a medieval manuscript. The unicorns are posed rampant, back to back, with their heads arcing around to cross horns. The unicorn on the right has been fleshed out in white ink, while the unicorn on the left remains a pencil sketch. The negative space within the circle is filled with curling white vines.
February 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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White layer is down, red is next.
Still not sure if the second unicorn is going to be red or black.
An overhead photo of a “kraft brown” toned paper sketchbook page taped to a dark wooden surface, with a dip pen, white gel pen, and chunky white marker arranged next to it, and a bottle of red fountain pen ink sitting below. The drawing on the paper shows both light graphite and white ink of a stylized illuminated bestiary. A circle rests within several square decorative borders, and tow unicorns are depicted rearing up in parallel, back to back, and arcing their heads around to cross horns. Curling vines in white take up the negative space within the circle.
February 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM