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packed, follow

follow ; mixed media on canvas, 15 x 12 inches, the string series continues. In World War Two, the Soviets used dogs like kamikazes. They would starve the dogs while training them to seek food under German armoured vehicles. In action, the dogs were packed with explosives, which would be set off by a lever on their backs as they scrambled beneath the moving vehicle. The Germans called them Hundeminen , and found flamethrowers to be the most effective at keeping them away. Otherwise, they just shot most dogs on sight.

in Uppsala, the snow falls down

in Uppsala, the snow falls down ; mixed media on canvas, 10 x 10 inches, the string series continues. Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, and he went on to make movies about mute actresses and mentally doomed nurses. Fun! Consequently, girls from Upssala frown a great deal. * * * * * Remember this fellow ("Coming home from Russia, we did many bad things")? Well, he just got sold . Other work (now marked down) on sale here .

killer clique

A member of the Queen Charlotte Killers, who were notorious for using Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) to blow up the houses of girls they just didn't like. {For T.N.V.}

norway electric

norway electric ; mixed media on canvas, 8 x 8 inches, for the voltaic Scandinavian forest queen in all of us.

the island of dr. moreau

Where all the beasts are men and all the men are beasts. And a very terrible movie with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. Truly awful.

amazing {clutter}

amazing ; pencil and crayon on Moleskine watercolour paper, 5.25 x 3.5 inches. For T.N.V. Amazing What's amazing to me is that everyone doesn't go crazy. All the time. Like going to sleep or getting hungry, it should be an all-the-time phenomenon. Crazy fuel is everywhere, spilled and pooled and giving off its toxic fumes. Reflecting badly. This is why people stare at the ground, trying not to breathe. The first four days of September have been a hot, airless room. This describes my office, where they shut off the useful part of the air-conditioning system over the Labour Day weekend, and left in progress the hopeless part, the squalid buzzing part, just tinny white noise like some distant jet engine, falling out of the sky, just over your shoulder. Morning is the only time to get anything done, as the remains of overnight cool allow enough thought to bounce at a certain restrained depth. But then the afternoon arrives and throws a blanket over your head. And then you sit there

the new dentists

the new dentists ; ink on Albalene paper, 7 x 5 inches. Brave new dentists, for T.N.V.

title illo

Nora ; pencil and crayon on Moleskine watercolour paper, 5.25 x 3.5 inches. Title illo for T.N.V.

holy schnitzel

rewarding the beautiful children , pencil crayon on paper, 8 x 10 inches. Illo for a story in which a (sullen, beautiful) character says, 'Holy Schnitzel!' a lot.