The Cracked Lookingglass
@jaketrunk.bsky.social
Illustrating James Joyce's Ulysses one page at a time since 2015. Currently working on The Syrens.
Occasionally posting other artistic endeavors.
Thecrackedlookingglass.com
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https://trunkpaintings.etsy.com
Occasionally posting other artistic endeavors.
Thecrackedlookingglass.com
jacobtrunk.com
https://trunkpaintings.etsy.com
"Ah yes, in the dead sea floating on his back, reading a book with a parasol open. Couldn’t sink if you tried: so thick with salt. Because the weight of the water, no, the weight of the body in the water is equal to the weight of the what? " #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters #joyce
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Ah yes, in the dead sea floating on his back, reading a book with a parasol open. Couldn’t sink if you tried: so thick with salt. Because the weight of the water, no, the weight of the body in the water is equal to the weight of the what? " #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters #joyce
A 2 x 3.5 inch painting of the courtyard at Mission Taqueria in Philadelphia.
#watercolor #painting #art
#watercolor #painting #art
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A 2 x 3.5 inch painting of the courtyard at Mission Taqueria in Philadelphia.
#watercolor #painting #art
#watercolor #painting #art
"Brady’s cottages a boy for the skins lolled, his bucket of offal linked, smoking a chewed fagbutt."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
"Brady’s cottages a boy for the skins lolled, his bucket of offal linked, smoking a chewed fagbutt."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters
"Might manage a sketch. By Mr and Mrs L. M. Bloom. Invent a story for some proverb. Which? Time I used to try jotting down on my cuff what she said dressing. Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Might manage a sketch. By Mr and Mrs L. M. Bloom. Invent a story for some proverb. Which? Time I used to try jotting down on my cuff what she said dressing. Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"Asquat on the cuckstool he folded out his paper, turning its pages over on his bared knees. Something new and easy. No great hurry. Keep it a bit."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Asquat on the cuckstool he folded out his paper, turning its pages over on his bared knees. Something new and easy. No great hurry. Keep it a bit."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"He went out through the backdoor into the garden: stood to listen towards the next garden. No sound. Perhaps hanging clothes out to dry. The maid was in the garden."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"He went out through the backdoor into the garden: stood to listen towards the next garden. No sound. Perhaps hanging clothes out to dry. The maid was in the garden."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"She looked back at him, mewing. Wants to go out. Wait before a door sometime it will open. Let her wait. Has the fidgets. Electric. Thunder in the air. "
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"She looked back at him, mewing. Wants to go out. Wait before a door sometime it will open. Let her wait. Has the fidgets. Electric. Thunder in the air. "
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
A small painting i made in the gallery of the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A small painting i made in the gallery of the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia
"Row with her in the XL Café about the bracelet. Wouldn’t eat her cakes or speak or look. Saucebox. He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
October 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Row with her in the XL Café about the bracelet. Wouldn’t eat her cakes or speak or look. Saucebox. He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
" What was that about some young student and a picnic? He creased out the letter at his side, reading it slowly as he chewed, sopping another die of bread in the gravy and raising it to his mouth."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
September 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
" What was that about some young student and a picnic? He creased out the letter at his side, reading it slowly as he chewed, sopping another die of bread in the gravy and raising it to his mouth."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"—There’s a smell of burn, she said. Did you leave anything on the fire?
—The kidney! he cried suddenly."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
—The kidney! he cried suddenly."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
September 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"—There’s a smell of burn, she said. Did you leave anything on the fire?
—The kidney! he cried suddenly."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
—The kidney! he cried suddenly."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"—Met him what? he asked.
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
September 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"—Met him what? he asked.
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"—Met him what? he asked.
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
September 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"—Met him what? he asked.
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
—Here, she said. What does that mean?
He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"She set the brasses jingling as she raised herself briskly, an elbow on the pillow. He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat’s udder."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin #mollybloom
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin #mollybloom
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"She set the brasses jingling as she raised herself briskly, an elbow on the pillow. He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat’s udder."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin #mollybloom
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin #mollybloom
"He let the bloodsmeared paper fall to her and dropped the kidney amid the sizzling butter sauce. Pepper. He sprinkled it through his fingers ringwise from the chipped eggcup."
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
August 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"He let the bloodsmeared paper fall to her and dropped the kidney amid the sizzling butter sauce. Pepper. He sprinkled it through his fingers ringwise from the chipped eggcup."
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
"But he delayed to clear the chair: her striped petticoat, tossed soiled linen: and lifted all in an armful on to the foot of the bed."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
August 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"But he delayed to clear the chair: her striped petticoat, tossed soiled linen: and lifted all in an armful on to the foot of the bed."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin
"No, not like that. A barren land, bare waste. Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. No wind could lift those waves, grey metal, poisonous foggy waters. Brimstone they called it raining down"
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
August 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"No, not like that. A barren land, bare waste. Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. No wind could lift those waves, grey metal, poisonous foggy waters. Brimstone they called it raining down"
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
#jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses
August 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
August 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"Olives cheaper: oranges need artificial irrigation. Every year you get a sending of the crop. Your name entered for life as owner in the book of the union. Can pay ten down and the balance in yearly instalments. Bleibtreustrasse 34, Berlin, W. 15."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
August 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Olives cheaper: oranges need artificial irrigation. Every year you get a sending of the crop. Your name entered for life as owner in the book of the union. Can pay ten down and the balance in yearly instalments. Bleibtreustrasse 34, Berlin, W. 15."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
"For another: a constable off duty cuddling her in Eccles’ Lane. They like them sizeable. Prime sausage. O please, Mr Policeman, I’m lost in the wood."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"For another: a constable off duty cuddling her in Eccles’ Lane. They like them sizeable. Prime sausage. O please, Mr Policeman, I’m lost in the wood."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
"He held the page aslant patiently, bending his senses and his will, his soft subject gaze at rest. The crooked skirt swinging, whack by whack by whack."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
July 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"He held the page aslant patiently, bending his senses and his will, his soft subject gaze at rest. The crooked skirt swinging, whack by whack by whack."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
"He halted before Dlugacz’s window, staring at the hanks of sausages, polonies, black and white. Fifteen multiplied by. The figures whitened in his mind, unsolved: displeased, he let them fade."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
July 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"He halted before Dlugacz’s window, staring at the hanks of sausages, polonies, black and white. Fifteen multiplied by. The figures whitened in his mind, unsolved: displeased, he let them fade."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
A business card sized watercolor painting i did at the Rodin gallery in Philly.
#watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #minipaintings
#watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #minipaintings
July 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A business card sized watercolor painting i did at the Rodin gallery in Philly.
#watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #minipaintings
#watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #minipaintings
"There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
July 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket."
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso
#ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso