There's a lot of terrible and tragic events going on right now that I dont want to take away from, but if you find yourself doomscrolling, take heart in the fact that a new bottomless pit has been found off the coast of Mexico.

*Eddington intensifies*

From the introduction of the late Michael Munk's book "The Portland Red Guide".
Lets bring this energy back instead 😤

You need to be grass maxxing. You need to take the sand pill. Why are you, as a man, not pondering dune ecology?

Last month I drove to the coast for lunch and got to see the Dune room at the Florence library

Light would play a special part in the symbolism of Graves, at times seemingly trapping animals in webs of fluorescence, or in another case, a hibernating animal in a mandala-esque form radiates a disc of pure pink light.

Graves would gain initial attention thru his award winning "Moor Swan", a moody symbolic self portrait that would indicate the importance of bird motifs thru out his career.

Taking cues from Native and Eastern art motifs, as well as building upon ideas put forth by previous regional artists of the Impressionist school (See "Nootka Island" by Gustin below), Graves would seek to transcend the then ascendant Surrealism thru his own unique symbolism.

(Thread reposted from twitter)
We are back and starting off 2026 strong with a new ep, diving into the mystique of that most enigmatic of the Pacific Northwest "Mystic" painters, Morris Graves

Very excited to announce that on Monday I'll be dropping an interview with the incredible (and Hugo award winning) @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on his most recent work, and the themes inherent to Fascist Sci-Fi in general. This will be a conversation of cosmic proportions, and importance...