Dark Figure by Bill Mayer

Dark Figure by Bill Mayer
Mercury (Jakub Rebelka)
time to play with sticks again!
i spliced the tree body together from bits of branch & bark, sculpted a ball joint onto it in air dry clay, and 3d printed the upper body to fit. the moss is made of fabric, and the green boughs are a yule decoration i chopped up and painted.
The Meditating Frog by Sengai Gibon, c. 1820s
“Spring moon— if I touch it, it would drip.”— Kobayashi Issa, from Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (edited by Stephen Addiss, Fumiko Yamamoto and Akira Yamamoto)
Laura Benson
In the ruined chapel of the heart, desire aches.