Despair at Dawn
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Despair at Dawn

As far back as I can remember, I have struggled intensely with mornings. No matter the state of my mental health—or my life—at any point in time. Even at my (seemingly) overall happiest or most content, my first thought upon waking is: I just want to die. Please take me.

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The Last Judgement
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The Last Judgement

In the 1420s and 1430s, when oil and panel painting were still in their infancy, vertical formats were often used for depictions of the Last Judgement, because the narrow framing particularly suited a hierarchical presentation of heaven, earth and hell.

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The Sin and The Confession
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The Sin and The Confession

Two years ago I stumbled on this totally scandalous 1880 painting from Heinrich Lossow. It’s called The Sin. I wasted no time in deciding to turn it into one of our postcards and I thoughtlessly, naively landed on Good Night and Good Fuck as the perfect copy to overlay on this instead of, wait for it—

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Guillotines
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Guillotines

What radicalized me? My father’s last request of me before taking his own life in 1998 and the 16 years before that I spent as his daughter. Sorry I haven’t made this happen, dad.

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What keeps me up at night
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What keeps me up at night

Torn between 𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 and 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥.

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The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
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The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings

If Strong and Hardy is anything to me, it’s the intersection of my love for both art and science, the collision between spirituality and materialism, the surreal and the actual, the abundant still unexplained magic we live undaunted by as well as the exceptional heaps of knowledge we have acquired about ourselves and this world we inhabit.

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Mora
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Mora

A moroi is a type of vampire or ghost in Romanian folklore—the origins of the word are unknown but may have come from the old Slavonic word, mora, meaning nightmare.

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Thank you
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Thank you

We didn’t want this year to slip by without taking a minute to let you all know how incredibly grateful we are for our family, friends and supporters who have all helped to sustain us throughout this year, our first year as fully self-employed artists and business owners, which has been anything but easy.

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Body of a Flower: Luna Moth
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Body of a Flower: Luna Moth

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity, and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”

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