@sophies-sigil.bsky.social
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![Because You Are
Because you are a person
And you struggle, strive and care
Because you deserve better
Than to suffer and despair
Because you try with all your might
And fear and think and dream
And try so hard to hide
Yet wish truly to be seen
Because it is honestly enough
That you exist and you are here
Because you matter and affect
You are worthy of love without fear
Because you live
And to live means to share
The very least you deserve
Is a simple breath of air
The only precious thing I have
And it is something I can give
I would give you my last breath
That you might live
I would give you hope
That if ever you are scared
You might feel loved and less alone
And know that someone cared
It is the only precious thing I have
Something I can give
I would give you my last breath
That you might live.
[Tuesday 11th May 2021]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreie7tctydmp6dqbyu73tazn23r6hbhwnrtgocjoadbglewbdqm34e4@jpeg)
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Absinthe pieces.
2008-2025.
Oil, pencil and ink on canvas and paper.
2008-2025.
Oil, pencil and ink on canvas and paper.
December 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Absinthe pieces.
2008-2025.
Oil, pencil and ink on canvas and paper.
2008-2025.
Oil, pencil and ink on canvas and paper.
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I love my @sophies-sigil.bsky.social and I hope she's ok.
December 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I love my @sophies-sigil.bsky.social and I hope she's ok.
Nothing worthwhile to offer.
My nonsense compares unfavourably to others.
Drifts alone in the aether.
Talking to myself because no one else will bother.
My nonsense compares unfavourably to others.
Drifts alone in the aether.
Talking to myself because no one else will bother.
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Nothing worthwhile to offer.
My nonsense compares unfavourably to others.
Drifts alone in the aether.
Talking to myself because no one else will bother.
My nonsense compares unfavourably to others.
Drifts alone in the aether.
Talking to myself because no one else will bother.
![Pinecones
are promises
hiding prophecies
behind armoured plates
pieces of future
held in close embrace
packed potential
kept protected and safe
fists full of fortune
that patiently awaits
gentle unclasping
of the sealed gates
spilling seeds
of hope into
quiet space
[Saturday 13th December 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreidspnwzatdu5bc3fd5f5yhxgy5wrugmjykrt7mjcmxgtx5o4mepoa@jpeg)
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Finished illustration, progress and details.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil with graphite and charcoal over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
11”x17”.
SOLD.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil with graphite and charcoal over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
11”x17”.
SOLD.
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Finished illustration, progress and details.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil with graphite and charcoal over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
11”x17”.
SOLD.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil with graphite and charcoal over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
11”x17”.
SOLD.
For anyone who needs a light in the dark.
December 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
For anyone who needs a light in the dark.
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2022 was a good year.
Pencil and charcoal on Strathmore toned paper.
I hope I get to spend a little more time with this universe and flesh it out more.
Pencil and charcoal on Strathmore toned paper.
I hope I get to spend a little more time with this universe and flesh it out more.
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
2022 was a good year.
Pencil and charcoal on Strathmore toned paper.
I hope I get to spend a little more time with this universe and flesh it out more.
Pencil and charcoal on Strathmore toned paper.
I hope I get to spend a little more time with this universe and flesh it out more.
For International Day of Persons with Disabilities:
A reminder to try to be gentle with yourself and with others,
because everyone struggles and some have to live with the unimaginable.
We all rely on one another to get through each wonderful, chaotic, and often seemingly impossible day.
A reminder to try to be gentle with yourself and with others,
because everyone struggles and some have to live with the unimaginable.
We all rely on one another to get through each wonderful, chaotic, and often seemingly impossible day.
![that if you want to
hang out with them
‘you have to put in some
effort too, you know’
you will get home
if it takes hours
have to drag yourself
long exhausting haul
or wait until you can
stagger on again
as long as it takes
try not to fall
ruined wrists
swollen hands
will not grip
but you’ll do what you can
fork and teacup to lift
hardly able to move
for days and days
but bodily functions
persist
so you will have to find ways
try hard to be grateful
think some thought
that seems witty
scoff that you are
embarrassing, ill-equipped
because, at the end of the day,
tea tastes more bitter
with a dose of self-pity.
[Thursday 14th November 2024]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreiad2hp6nwpdbgzz3ruwoz37hngqaja5axu62dlqne3pvzx6mxmmmm@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
For International Day of Persons with Disabilities:
A reminder to try to be gentle with yourself and with others,
because everyone struggles and some have to live with the unimaginable.
We all rely on one another to get through each wonderful, chaotic, and often seemingly impossible day.
A reminder to try to be gentle with yourself and with others,
because everyone struggles and some have to live with the unimaginable.
We all rely on one another to get through each wonderful, chaotic, and often seemingly impossible day.
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It's my birthday week! Want to help a guy out? Wish him a happy day (on the 6th) or he'd gladly accept a couple bucks! I've been spending most my time taking care of mom. I'm thinking that any money raised will buy her a nice gift. 1/2
venmo.com/u/Dave-tothe-K
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December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It's my birthday week! Want to help a guy out? Wish him a happy day (on the 6th) or he'd gladly accept a couple bucks! I've been spending most my time taking care of mom. I'm thinking that any money raised will buy her a nice gift. 1/2
venmo.com/u/Dave-tothe-K
www.paypal.com/paypalme/orb...
venmo.com/u/Dave-tothe-K
www.paypal.com/paypalme/orb...
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January 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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![‘...streaking the darkness radiantly!’
— from ‘Mutability’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I wish I could write
something beautiful
that drifts one along
dreamlike
a haunting song
that breathes life
into inner eyes
grants the heart
a perfect sigh
of ache or contentment
enriched
eyes dazzled as if
with starlight bewitched
as of dappled light
beneath Beech trees
storm-soaked skies
tempestuous seas
the poesy of moonlight
drifting Autumn leaves
of twilight’s fall
the scent of a breeze
the dark music of
the flowing stream
of rumble and murmur
an enchanting daydream
something soul-shifting
not out of immodesty
because I wish to gift
others the chance to see
to feel such gentle repose
and exquisite beauty
as Kenneth Grahame
Mary and Percy Shelley
Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde
have gifted me.
[Monday 17th November 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreicdgimqhqqlb5xyul5as2z4re2eeiww6nzq5rpbsa4iuugbg7t2li@jpeg)
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Wishing I had the eloquence to express my love and gratitude for @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein. Shadows and impressions are the best I can do.
![‘Victor’
inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
A lullaby of longing
brutality and pain
solace and suffering
in endless refrain
of heart and humiliation
the horror of want and gain
of gentle forgiveness
love innate and attained
in time the haunting
notes might fade
but the soul remembers
the beauty remains
[Sunday 16th November 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreiargvsan2zxkcardsjqsjc7ppzvsecl5cggjc6s6skr3geeblioca@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Wishing I had the eloquence to express my love and gratitude for @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein. Shadows and impressions are the best I can do.
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Don’t shop at big retailers this year, give these gifts instead!
- mysterious bowl of moss
- inscrutable jar of fog
- weird old log
- large boulder the size of a small boulder
- scarf infused with goblin wild magic
- mysterious bowl of moss
- inscrutable jar of fog
- weird old log
- large boulder the size of a small boulder
- scarf infused with goblin wild magic
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Don’t shop at big retailers this year, give these gifts instead!
- mysterious bowl of moss
- inscrutable jar of fog
- weird old log
- large boulder the size of a small boulder
- scarf infused with goblin wild magic
- mysterious bowl of moss
- inscrutable jar of fog
- weird old log
- large boulder the size of a small boulder
- scarf infused with goblin wild magic
From 'Poems For Strangers' volume one.
Be excellent to each other.
Wishing you a peaceful day.
Be excellent to each other.
Wishing you a peaceful day.
![Ragged Little World.
In your tattered oil rag mind
the stains are so ingrained
they will never wash out
You see a world
smudged and vile
I peer through the holes
in my tattered veil
and see you
and everywhere
beauty stains the ground
[Sunday 21st November 2021]
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From 'Poems For Strangers' volume one.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreige4das3g62cyixw5mzvvye55egldiimnzddtbkgd3k62n2bcqhuy@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
From 'Poems For Strangers' volume one.
Be excellent to each other.
Wishing you a peaceful day.
Be excellent to each other.
Wishing you a peaceful day.
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Things to do this weekend besides shopping:
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Things to do this weekend besides shopping:
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
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November.
2002.
Charcoal over oil on paper.
15”x20”. (I think)
SOLD.
I owe this piece a lot to any of the successes I’ve had as an illustrator. She became my first ‘fan-favorite’ and landed me my first art director job when the lady that would end up hiring me bought it from a small show.
2002.
Charcoal over oil on paper.
15”x20”. (I think)
SOLD.
I owe this piece a lot to any of the successes I’ve had as an illustrator. She became my first ‘fan-favorite’ and landed me my first art director job when the lady that would end up hiring me bought it from a small show.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
November.
2002.
Charcoal over oil on paper.
15”x20”. (I think)
SOLD.
I owe this piece a lot to any of the successes I’ve had as an illustrator. She became my first ‘fan-favorite’ and landed me my first art director job when the lady that would end up hiring me bought it from a small show.
2002.
Charcoal over oil on paper.
15”x20”. (I think)
SOLD.
I owe this piece a lot to any of the successes I’ve had as an illustrator. She became my first ‘fan-favorite’ and landed me my first art director job when the lady that would end up hiring me bought it from a small show.
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Witches.
2014-2025.
Pencil, oil and charcoal on paper.
2014-2025.
Pencil, oil and charcoal on paper.
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Witches.
2014-2025.
Pencil, oil and charcoal on paper.
2014-2025.
Pencil, oil and charcoal on paper.
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I clip of me working on The Thin Man from last year.
May 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I clip of me working on The Thin Man from last year.
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I'm tired.
The silence
That meets my effort
My heart speaks
And they step back
This world...
It seems to have forgotten
Numerous things
But mostly
How to value
What is worthy
And leave behind
What is not
The silence
That meets my effort
My heart speaks
And they step back
This world...
It seems to have forgotten
Numerous things
But mostly
How to value
What is worthy
And leave behind
What is not
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I'm tired.
The silence
That meets my effort
My heart speaks
And they step back
This world...
It seems to have forgotten
Numerous things
But mostly
How to value
What is worthy
And leave behind
What is not
The silence
That meets my effort
My heart speaks
And they step back
This world...
It seems to have forgotten
Numerous things
But mostly
How to value
What is worthy
And leave behind
What is not
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Labyrinth study.
2024.
Pencil, charcoal and ink on toned Strathmore paper.
11”x14”.
SOLD.
2024.
Pencil, charcoal and ink on toned Strathmore paper.
11”x14”.
SOLD.
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Labyrinth study.
2024.
Pencil, charcoal and ink on toned Strathmore paper.
11”x14”.
SOLD.
2024.
Pencil, charcoal and ink on toned Strathmore paper.
11”x14”.
SOLD.
![World Weary.
I am not tired of writing
mind and heart to bestow
bleeding them for all
who might wish to know
of feeling into the depths
seeking grace or despair
to share inky warmth
with whomever might care
but I am weary
in the depths of my soul
worn down by the apparent
pointlessness of it all
all the heartfelt words
that go unanswered, unread
unheeded by the world
as if whispered to the dead
all the love that cannot be
contained or hidden
that seems unneeded
by the world and unbidden
I am not tired of speaking
unfurling an honest heart
but with every word that lonely fades
another wisp of soul departs.
[Wednesday 5th November 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbbia3f7wf75ndgdihy7ra3b/bafkreiefdqyqpbh6eikxvsp755nfoof7gphod4feto6fxket5hqmwy2tn4@jpeg)