the october country

Howard Pyle - The Haunted House (Catherine Duke Quickened her Steps), 1904

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My collection of vintage rabbits is coming along hoppingly.

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Here’s my modest collection of vintage facelessness.

So, this may be slightly niche content for this blog, but it gets to a real fear and fascination of mine that will never fail to spook me: large objects appearing unexpectedly or in places that it should be impossible to occupy.

I used to go on seaside holidays to this little town where a house along the promenade (part of a terrace of tall, spindly Victorian homes, many of which had become B&Bs) had a car in the living room. Or to put it another way, the entire living room was taken up by a car. That it was facing out, like it was staring at you, just made it so much more unsettling, somehow. You felt that it might one day accelerate out and...

Many years later I befriended someone who lived thereabouts, and she told me the car was the work of a noted local eccentric - he had to have built the thing in the room. And you can logic your way into feeling less weirded out once you know a human story about how an out-of-place object got there. Of course it was built inside the room; no other explanation is possible.

But then you get things like that 1951 Ford in the abandoned, mine, and you realise we may never know the story. Objects might be said to have ghosts, but some of the damn well seem like ghosts, too...

This Halloween costume is freaky 😱😱😱

Franz Sedlacek - Ghosts on a Tree - 1933

“Do Not Draw The Corner Sun”

For some reason i got inspired by something that somebody said me when I was child; Do not draw the sun in the corner.

I tried to capture that basic concept of how kids draw - grass near the bottom, birds in the sky and sun in the corner - and make it more stylish. : D

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Photo by Courtney Brooke ( @the-lightwitch ) *do not remove credit