100% digital free. b&w 4×5 negative + darkroom. / sometimes they just come out of nowhere.
This shrunken head is on display in Long Beach, Washington. It was purchased from the Pacific Curio Museum in San Francisco. According its display, this head was shrunk by Jivaro Indians in Ecuador jungles and is one of three known genuine shrunken heads on the Pacific Coast. The tradition of shrinking one’s head used to be a four day ritual with a carnival like atmosphere. I definitely wouldn’t desire to be the guest of honor.
This was actually a photo i took of a fake shrunken head, / that i keep hanging in my bedroom. I edited the photo’s contrast and colour, / stuck the head on a stick, / and BAM! / This is what happened. Quite happy with the result. / I think it looks best with the black background.
sickness needs to run it’s course. but meanwhile I endure with the hair of a shrunken head and a thermometer propped in mouth…waiting for it to tell me I feel better.
Poor old Shrunken Head Fred / It took 20 a day / to kill his looks, dead Perfectly preserved / His face all ashen / The Cigarette Barons / Were the only ones to cash-in It happened so slowly, that he felt no pain / His face all twisted / His grimace / Insane Still, look on the bright side / He says / Smiling again / I get to spend my days / On a smoker’s / Key chain.
Poor old Shrunken Head Fred / It took 20 a day / to kill his looks, dead Perfectly preserved / His face all ashen / The Cigarette Barons / Were the only ones to cash-in It happened so slowly, that he felt no pain / His face all twisted / His grimace / Insane Still, look on the bright side / He says / Smiling again / I get to spend my days, / On a smoker’s / Key chain.
USE NICOSMEAR / THE ANTI-AGEING DRUG / INHALERS AVAILABLE IN PACKS OF 20
Though word about her odd and deadly mating rituals is getting around, she never seems to be in short supply of volunteers.
Eerie head hunter t shirt design consisting of a pile of ancient human skulls framed by femurs. Professional design and illustration by GreenBoy Ink.
This piece was recently included in the ‘International Superheroes of Drawing, Illustration and World Domination’ art book, which also contains heaps of fantastic art and artists from Redbubble. You can purchase the book here / /
...an evil, possessed shrunken head to be exact. The worst kind. / /
God is godless godless is God
Sentient beings have unanswered questions…you can say that humankind has all the questions with no real definitive answers. Theories, oral and written traditions, forms of government or types of governance and religious doctrines, divides the human species, propagated by intolerance or plain old self imposed ignorance. / / No one can really explain why humankind ages, scientist speculate as to why we age then die and religionists state their reasons why humankind dies. In theory there is no reason for aging and dying and as we age we regenerate and then at some tipping point we start to die…everything on this planet does die or decays in nature or made by man and humankind does decay…”dust to dust ashes to ashes.” What is constant is the division of humankind, the constant back and forth between men and women, the battle of the sexes, political parties each side claims that they and only they are fit to govern, religions of various faiths who claim that they and they alone have the one and only true religion…”one God many religions and God made in the image of humankind.” When we reach a certain point in the aging process something happens, we let go of all our fears and superstitions or become totally possessed of our fears and superstitions…and death is a certainty and aging is a curse (?). “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” Humankind politics and religion, solve that and then the Sphinx…riddle be gone (?).
Who likes a Shrunken Head? EVERYBODY LOVES A SHRUNKEN HEAD! You too can perform Voodoo Rituals in your living room!
weird.. self-portrait, i guess. i’m the guy with the chopsticks.
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