hindsight: May – inkshark

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Art

Painting of night forest with strange red branches clawing up from the ground and from beneath the surface of a calm, moonlit lake; a hooded figure drags a sack toward the water's edge

moody, collaged painting of a person with their skeleton showing standing waist-deep in a murky swamp, their fingers trailing across a lush mossy log that has strands of pearls draped over it; everything is lit in an eerie green glow coming from a black crescent moon

ink painting of lonely grave silhouettes under a cloudy sky; flowers have been embroidered by the graves right through the watercolor paper

Collection of doodles in red and green, featuring caterpillars and various mushroom creatures whose stalks are comprised of human teeth and hands

Collection of doodles featuring weird cats, owls, and rabbits, but also a piranha in a green glass bottle corked with a lightbulb. You know, normal stuff.

I tried some experiments with embroidering on watercolor paper, which convinced me that while i hadn’t succeeded yet, i’m still interested and i should try on bigger paper. I also got excited about weird mushrooms whose stalks were things like human hands or molars.

News

If you’re in Seattle, or you’ll be traveling through before September 15, 2026, my work is in Paper Pushers Print Shop! It’s a fantastic, fun community space full of indie zines, comics, books, prints, stickers, etc. which also hosts workshops! It’s operated by the Seattle Printers Guild.
…Okay it’s a short list this month haha!

Pet Tax

little chihuahua in a comfy hoodie sniffing some grass in a sparse spring forest

happy silver staffie glistening in the sun

fawn staffie dumbly chomping grass next to some big, cheerful flowers

a little chihuahua and a big staffie curled up like cinnamon buns right beside each other on my bed

Anecdote

This is just serendipity–it’s barely a story at all, but it delighted me.

I recently shared photos of plants i was proud to have identified in the wild, in a discussion with some other Editors Canada members. One of my favorites was an air plant i saw in Florida.

I didn’t even realize they grow like this until i saw them growing randomly on top of other plants, like someone had just thrown a handful out into the woods:

I had one as a kid and i kept thinking about getting another one, but i hadn’t seen one for sale in the U.S. since before i started my little desk jungle–until i posted that photo. The very next day, there was one at the store for $3.99!

Obviously she came home with me and now her name is Frederica. She’s meditating on a cup of sphagnum moss while i decide on a more permanent home.