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Eclipse Day
🕑 Added 2024-04-08 22:22:47 +0000 UTCHappy eclipse day. Today is a lot more special than any made up capitalist, colonialist holiday that get its own Starbucks single use cup iteration. I had to cancel my very special eclipse trip with my best friends and I am sad like something fierce. In that same vein I wasn’t really able to take any kind-of-eclipse pics in Colorado today, and have resigned myself to indoor activities.
All of this, including the photography and the Patreon, are soul surrogates for the things that typically support my prana and my contentment and that I have been unable to do since circa 2018. I’m not sure any of you know what those things are anymore. So alongside the self portraits and especially when I can’t do the editing side of things to actually look at what I shoot, I have been obsessing over random hobbies for a few weeks at a time. I get really obsessive and can’t think about anything else. Any capacity I find myself with I immediately spend on my latest obsession if I let myself.
This week it’s evaporative art. Lately it’s also been giant native North American insects. And exotic tomatoes. And copper sulfate crystals. All of which I need to actually own specimens of. That’s the fascination— growing them, making them, caring for them while my body disitengrates. So I’m growing shitty crystals, evaporating water with intention, building habitat for my eventual giant silk moth pupae, and importing seeds and hoping something from all of it sticks and makes me happy. Oh last month it was dead animal preservation so I have a box of FOUR (4) perfectly preserved American robins that I have no idea yet what I’ll do with.
And here is where I removed a 2000 word paragraph about bats lol. Maybe next time.
Also yes no nudes here. Will post for Cervical and top tiers and such next.
Comments
Prana
Haha I’m sure it’ll come through in a future post
Louie
Would love to read that 2000 word paragraph
Prana
Wow! What a beautiful time. I opted to meditate during the peak as colorado was only around 60-70% Autozone (get in the zone lol). So it wasn’t really cool to look at but I felt this excited buzzing in my chest and definitely felt the energy shift. I love how it affects us slightly differently and also brings us all together from different demographics. We are all together as cute little ants building things and creating and growing and celebrating our life together under the big giant gas ball sun, for as long as it lets us.
Douglas S. Pierce Books
I’m so sorry you couldn’t make your eclipse trip! These images are cool, it is neat to see art that interests you beyond your own nude form (although that is always awesome). Sending love your way! Here in SE Michigan, we were close to the strip of totality, but on the edge of it. It was surreal, and the light grew weird, like the sun was lower powered, but not like a cloudy day. It was charged, in a way. My partner felt all sorts of magical energy flowing, and cast a couple of spells because of it. I took a brief video trying to capture the weird light, but am not sure my iPhone didn’t adjust to show optimal lighting, instead of the light-that-was. Oh well!
