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A number of years back I made a series called Melancholy Androids.

I invented an imaginary ancient alien race. Quiet. Lonely. Somewhere between spiritual and mechanical, magic and technology. They were a way to explore what depression feels like from the inside. Not to explain it, just to give it a shape.

The series is mostly digital illustrations. This one I painted. Projected the drawing, then built it up with spray paint and acrylic. It's the largest physical piece from the series.

Still one of my favorites.

I have always been creatively inspired by animals. The turtle has become, like his shell, something I have carried with me through many of my creative seasons in life, and one i expect to come back around again.

My first 3d printed turtle sculpture was in 2009.

This one is from 2021.

The idea keeps going. I just keep letting it change.

Available in this drop. Monday April 28. DM to claim it.

Life's seasons change, but we carry many things through them. One idea has followed through them all.

My own mortality. Not as a fear. Not as a comfort. Just as a constant. A truth I keep returning to.

Mr. Death Snail wears it on his back.

We humans have been trying to explain this idea forever. Every culture, every era, every tradition. Something that vast and that certain and that far outside our understanding. It pushes you to think bigger. To let go of what you can't control. To find something like peace in how small you are, but at the same time how deep and vast this experience can be.

Available in this drop. Monday April 28. DM if this one is yours.

I cannot describe how much joy it brought me to be able to contribute artwork to my neighborhood for

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