Natasha Kindred

Spending this grey Saturday getting high off glue fumes as I finish a collage of Stella Maris and rewatching one of my favourite films (the IGP playthrough of Still Wakes The Deep)

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Not now, mega-laser

This is how you write a goddamn headline.

On a background of crumpled vintage paper rests a paperback book: Cheer The Sick. The cover features an early modern plague doctor dropping an oversized posey of flowers. The tagline reads "What ails you?"

For #WomenInHorror month, I'm obliged to share my collection, Cheer The Sick. Tales include:

🗝️ What happens when you snort powdered faun
🗝️ There's a man inside the boiler and he knows you're gay
🗝️ Don't wear the fairy meth helmet
🗝️ Chelsea Flower Show vampires

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Hares boxing Linocut, trees and birds in flight in background.

March Hares, Celia Hart.

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

"War is not the solution, war is madness, war is a monster, war is a cancer that feeds on itself, engulfing everything!" #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

Fox Linocut set in landscape with wintered trees.

🖼️ Emily Robertson

1 night from full, the lenten moon

Blue puppet with salaryman hair and the text: Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. Frank O’Hara

Oh my WORD I just discovered PoeticPuppets on insta and yes it helps with the horrors

‘Breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ I say to myself, hoofing dihydrocodiene at Hastings train station.

Painting of crow in flight over snowy field, crows landing and forest in background.

🖼️ Laura Makabresku

Lunar Occultation of Mercury apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...
Fans of the western sky after sunset have lately enjoyed this month's remarkable array of bright planets. Witnessed from some locations, on Feb. 18 planet Mercury even appeared to slide behind the Moon, an event known as a lunar occultation

Morning.

A monoprint impression of the starlings as they come in to roost, based on my video from a couple of weeks ago. Drawing their powerful sweeping swirls as I watched the video.

Just seen one of my favourite train journey perks gazing out of the window at the dusky fields: a really sleek, fat fox.

@hookland.bsky.social ♥️

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Stars, sun and moon in chalk on stone steps leading into the river Thames. Above the symbols, a pile of stones with hearts chalked on them

Thames witchery spotted on yesterday’s walk. ‘Magic’ I say, grinning. ‘The Canticle of the creatures!’ He says, pointing at the sun. Everyone gets something.

digital drawing of a gryphon, framed in red

the noble gryphon

[ #art #creatureart ]

Went to the moon. The Battersea Shield was cool too.

Grumpy looking black cat with yellow eyes, lying down, painting.

Hello Wednesday.
🖼️ Shozo Ozaki

In here the other week, the deep silence in this chapel is precious to me. And I love the pennies in the well!

Self portrait of Gwen John, brown background, she wears a red dress or blouse with black check with black collar and little cameo, she has brown hair tied back.

Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902.

Yesterday in Epping Forest I learned I have the knee cartilage of a much older and more defeated woman.

Something something the history of humanity and domesticated creatures. From the wolf to the aurochs, for millennia we have gone into the wilderness and looked at fanged, horned, obsidian-eyed ultraviolence machines and said ‘if is not fren, why fren-shaped?’ And then made fren.

This is our Winter Olympics

Lord, into your hands I commend this circus and these monkeys.