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Published: 2013-07-19 20:12:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 949; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 15
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mixed on canvas paper. crackle paste acrylic medium, fabric dye, gouache, watercolors, acrylic ink, isoproplyl alcohol, and glue.i was going for a look that was reminiscent of the bubonic plague. buboes are the huge black swellings that formed at the victim's lymph glands, especially in the armpits and groin. they were incredibly painful and the plague could infect people and they could die as fast as a few hours, or a couple of days.
it makes me shiver to think of it.
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I love this. I live it's energy. Beautifully rendered.
Very cool.
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thank you! i am stoked that you used that work for this picture! nobody get that about my work. the uglier it is, the more beautiful it is to me. the prettier it is the more most people like it and i hate it!
how are you? i didn't get back to you the last time you sent me a note, sorry about that! life's been wild, we got our kitchen remodeled and it took an entire month! we were eating cereal out of plastic cups. haha
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oh wow...ive heard of the plague in my school. it really sucks, but your work is amazing and helps capture it and its amazing! 
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That really is amazing. And better not touch poisonous mushrooms either, I once read detailed descriptions of how the toxins of some digest your inner organs one by one over the course of weeks, nothing to laugh at either.
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thank you! i have a degree in british history so the black plague is something i've read quite a bit about. it's so incredibly scary. i've read descriptions of people walking down the street in london, not knowing they had caught it and before they got where they were going they'd develop the buboes and die shortly after. the buboes were generally really big, like a large orange. it's fascinating because it's so horrible.
poisonous mushrooms are really scary because so many people don't realize how dangerous it is to eat a mushroom that they aren't very informed about. i'd never eat a wild mushroom unless someone i trusted to know about it had harvested it.
small pox is another thing people got around the same time as the plague and was pretty much as disgusting as the plague.
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