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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@motiblackart.bsky.social
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Autistic (Late/Self Realised)
Writer and artist living in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland
Community library volunteer
Trans Rights Matter
Black Lives Matter
Author of The Casa Martyrs https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CG2PQCP9

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Sometime duo stretches my brain, and other times…
A screen shot of a duo question asking you to translate the word cat and providing one single option to answer with, which is the word cat.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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There's an up to 50% sale over on RedBubble at the moment. So here's the link to my shop, and some of my artwork you'll find there. 😉

www.redbubble.com/people/motib...
A watercolour painting of a red fox A drawing of a goat's head with celtic knot decoration. A cartoon of a seagull next to a carton of chips. A photo of a pumpkin carving of a skull.
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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From The Casa Martyrs: How can we ever triumph at the Blazing Court when something as simple as the truth has become something those in power can make up as they go along?
A photo of a pumpkin carving of the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral with the text: For Halloween, post the scariest line from one of your books.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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In case I have any locals on this account 😉
Four photos of carved pumpkins, one showing Pittenweem West Shore, One the Dreel Halls in Anstruther, another St Monans Kirk, and finally a view of Crail harbour. Over this is text: Happy Halloween from the East Neuk.
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Happy Halloween to all my wonderful Autistic and AuDHD friends (and to all the rest of you too!)
A photo of a carved pumpkin with an infinity sign, a spider, and a spider's web inside the loops of the infinity sign. Over this is text: Have an Au-some Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Not quite the big project I had planned to end my pumpkin carving season, but I ran out of time and energy, so went for something simple and not overly original. Still, it's very pretty, and it was interesting staring at this painting all day.

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin carving of Vincent Van Gogh's Stary Night
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Tonight's pumpkin carving, and this year's raffle prize for the local library. The winner picked a haunted Pittenweem harbour scene.
A photo of a pumpkin carving showing a haunted harbour scene, with a pirate ship, a big spider on fishing nets, and a haunted house behind with an eye in one window, a cat in another, a creepy figure in the door and a spider on the roof.
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Tonight's carve! Specially for someone who is very much interested in the clocks of John Smith of Pittenweem. The below carving is actually of a clock face.

If you want to see more of my pumpkin carvings, check out my media tab!

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin with John Smith, Pittenweem written across the top and rings of numbers with a face in a moon in the centre. A photo of a pumpkin with John Smith, Pittenweem written across the top and rings of numbers with a face in a moon in the centre.
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Tonight’s pumpkin carving. Had to rush it, but at least it’s finished. Only
4 more to go.
A photo of an eye carved into a pumpkin A photo of an eye carved into a pumpkin
October 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Thank you. Just about to stick a craft knife in my husband's eye... (Redoing the carve I did of his eye last year to save time and hopefully do a better job.)
A photo of a pumpkin carving of an eye
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Today's pumpkin share is a carving I did back in 2022 for my Autistic friends and family 🫂Thank you all for being so supportive and wonderful, even when you're fighting your own battles.

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin carving. There is an infinity sign with cobwebs in the loops and a spider on the top. A photo of a pumpkin carving. There is an infinity sign with cobwebs in the loops and a spider on the top.
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Tonight's pumpkin carving. I spent ages agonizing over the background, and decided I should of left it blank... So 15 mins with a U-gouge, and the gate is gone.

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A photo of a pumpkin carving of a snowman and a christmas tree in front of a gate A photo of a pumpkin carving of a christmas tree and a snowman
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Who needs AI to generate art inspiration when you have plasticine. Finally getting to carve an image I’ve wanted to carve for ages. What could be more scary than Christmas in October 😉
A photo of a plasticine tree and a plasticine snowman in front of a photo of a gatehouse.
October 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Today's pumpkin share is probably my most locally famous one, and is carved into a pumpkin I grew myself. It shows the village of Pittenweem.

If you want to see more pumpkin carving, check out my media tab.

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A close up photo of a pumpkin carving of a village A photo of a pumpkin carving of Pittenweem west shore. The sea is in the foreground, then there are some houses, then the sky.
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Today's pumpkin share is two sunflowers from previous years.

If you've been enjoying my pumpkin carvings, please check out my RedBubble store - and there's 25% off site wide at the moment.

www.redbubble.com/people/motib...

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A photo of a carved pumpkin with Slava Ukraini carved into it. A photo of a pumpkin with a sunflower carved into it.
October 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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A couple from my C-List of past carves today, an otter and what was supposed to be a wave.

I've counted that I need to carve 8 pumpkins to keep sharing at least 1 daily photo until Halloween, so knuckling down!

Check out my media tab to see all the pumpkins I've previously shared.

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin carving of an otter A photo of a pumpkin carving of a crashing wave
October 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Today's pumpkin share is a little lobster.

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A photo of a pumpkin carving of a lobster
October 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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One of my favourite past carves for today's pumpkin share. I'm also getting out my plasticine to create some little tableaus for possible carves over the next few days.

I've been sharing carves daily since mid Sept, so if you're late to the party, check out my media tab

#Halloween #PumpkinCarving
A pumpkin carving of a skull A pumpkin carving of a skull in full external light
October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Here's a carve from 2022 I don't particularly like, but I'm starting to get worried I won't have enough images to get me to 31st as carving's been a bit thin this year as I'm still too busy to throw everything out of the window and just carve.

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin carving of a bee
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Today's pumpkin share is of the Dreel Halls in Anstruther.

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A photo of a pumpkin carving of the Dreel Halls in Anstruther. A photo of a pumpkin carving in progress with a craft knife cutting out detail. A photo of a pumpkin carving in progress A photo of the Dreel Halls pumpkin lit from the outside.
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I do outline the image. Sometimes I wrap the pumpkin up and draw what I will carve, sometimes I just stick a photo or drawing to it.
A photo of a photo of an eye stuck to a pumpkin A photo of a pumpkin wrapped in paper with a sketch on it. A photo of a pumpkin wrapped in paper with a pattern drawn on it.
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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A friend let me carve her eye last Halloween... 😉

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A photograph of a pumpkin, mid carve, showing most of an eye A photograph of an eye carved into a pumpkin
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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My first carve from last year. I messed it up right at the end, going too deep above the first O, but I may try the carve again at some point.

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin carving with the word BOOKS on it, written from scrabble tiles A photo of a pumpkin carving with the word BOOKS on it, written from scrabble tiles
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Today's pumpkin carving share is one of my most popular carves, and shoes St Monans' Kirk. I like carving cuboid shapes, as by just carving different depths, you can quite easily create a 3D look. And buildings are good cuboid shapes!

#PumpkinCarving
A photo of a pumpkin carving of St Monans Kirk and graveyard. A photo of a pumpkin carving lit up from the outside - showing St Monans Kirk and graveyard.
October 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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If you live near Pittenweem, Pittenweem Library is having a PUMPKIN RAFFLE! The winner gets their very own pumpkin carved by me, with an image of their choice.

Today's pumpkin share is the scene last year's winner chose.

#PumpkinCarving
A photograph of a pumpkin carving with a black cat on the left, creepy trees and bats in the sky, and a church with a a graveyard and a creepy figure in the door. A photograph of a pumpkin carving with a black cat on the left, creepy trees and bats in the sky, and a church with a a graveyard and a creepy figure in the door.
October 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM