Psyche Delectus: Behemoth, The Jester's Armor

Smaller things pull larger strings.

Recommended Listening:

Sidewalks and Skeletons

Forever

from This is Your Escape

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Psyche Delectus: Invisibles Day 2016

Though the dark half of the year is full upon us, there comes a day for rekindling the fire.  Each year on November 23rd I celebrate the re-ignition of failing light with a new piece of art dedicated to one of my favorite comic books series, The Invisibles.

Last year I missed this day and the year that followed was one of growing confusion and darkness.  These things may inevitably be unrelated.  I nonetheless return with a renewed fire.

Winter has come early and harsh and there is an old enemy at the gates with a new smiling face and shining promises of a return to past glories.  Deadly, deadly illusion has come calling.  Let this piece be a call to renew the light and the fight. I send this light into the future with hope.

On November 23rd, 1995 Grant Morrison involved the readers of his comic book series The Invisibles in a group act of sigil magick.  Check out the original letters page from the comic to see how the idea was initially presented.  Join me today in my annual celebration of The Invisibles Hypersigil!

Recommended Listening:

EMA

Satellites

from The Future's Void

Previous Years:

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Psyche Delectus: Meditation

In the stillness and the dark, distillation.

Recommended Listening:

Vestigial

The Geometry

from Translucent Communion

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Psyche Delectus: Construction in the Underworld

In the foundry,
ancient fires burn.

Recommended Listening:

Coph Nia

The End

from The Dark Illuminati: A Celestial Tragedy in Two Acts

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Psyche Delectus: Abraxas and the Ruptured Cage

Freedom comes.

Recommended Listening:

Grendel

Neon City Lights

from Timewave Zero

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Psyche Delectus: Naked Amidst the Enemy

Within the baleful eyes of others,
Invisible walls are made.

Recommended Listening:

Black Mountain Transmitter

Black Goat of the Woods

from Black Goat of the Woods

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Psyche Delectus: Embers

The dying light of that world
reveals the complexities we have lost.

Recommended Listening:

Atrium Carceri

Old City: Leviathan

from Old City: Leviathan OST

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From the Archives: Variations on Balance and Darkness

The Door opens for both.

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Psyche Delectus: Survivor

When the only choice is continuance...

Recommended Listening:

Sidewalks & Skeletons

Future Ghosts

from Future Ghosts

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Exhumed: Werewolf By Night

For my Werewolf by Night piece, I did several sketches in preparation.  One of my favorites caught my eye again recently, so I brought it into Photoshop to explore.  I like the werewolf face here opposed to the one in the finished piece.  This one has a more expressive quality that the other lacks.  The color and lighting focus in this one is simply nighttime.
 
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From the Archives: Lapine Interior

A musing on interiors with a lapine theme.  My goal is to hang this in the hallway leading to my bedroom.  Originally I had thought for this image to be a small dog's skull, but a hare seems more appropriate.
  

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Psyche Delectus: The Red Veil

No matter our justifications or denial,
It seems to always come to us
as a doorway of pain.

Recommended Listening:

Abel Korzeniowski

Reborn

from Penny Dreadful OST

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Psyche Delectus: In the Shadow of

It was there all along.

Recommended Listening:

Lamia Vox

Evil Comes from the North

from Sigillum Diaboli

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