Birth of Osservalten (alternate version) 2012
Ceceli Mask 2012
Post Trauma///The New Mother 2012
Mistoppu’s Dog Attacks the Ultramel Garden - April 2012
Leader of the Nightmare Parade and Necropolis Asylum, the grudge-hearted Mistoppu sends his dog out to kill Osservalten and the Ultramel Garden after his naïve undertaking of saving a soulful, floating chair from their grip. The dog crosses through the Jezebel Forest alarming it to shut down in darkness after the outcome of the attack. Mistoppu’s dog mauls Osservalten, breaking his neck and puncturing other vital organs. He is left to die while the dog soils the garden with toxic urine, further shaming the plants.
The idea of the dog character came from a dream where it attacked my brother and I in the driveway of our old home. After realizing what it had done, it turned into some anthropomorphized angel dog and ascended into the sky.
In the story, it represents Mistoppu’s outsourcing of cruelty. The dog was not born with any harmful intentions and was intended to live only by it’s simple needs but it was manipulated into being Mistoppu’s literal “dog”. It kills for him without self-awareness and still receives blame.
I connect its physical appearance with creatures I sympathize with from different mythologies. Particularly Rangda and the Gorgon sisters.
Birth of Osservalten, March 2012
Depiction of Osservalten’s birth in the Ultramel Garden. This piece is meant to illustrate the agony of struggling to be free from the placental membrane which he grew in underground and the ecstasy of activated each sense for the first time. After digging his way out of the ground he is greeted by the intense light of the sun and smells of the surrounding trees and flowers. In a way, this also resembles Osservalten’s later struggle in life as the caretaker or “mother” of the garden.
Osservalten is born with bright pink/purple skin and red hair because the placental membrane fed the embryo excessive amounts of anthocyanin to keep him healthy in future life. Later, in an effort to revive the garden after it’s destroyed by the Nightmare Parade, Osservalten bleeds out all of his anthocyanin to supplement to new plants. (He’s then completely paper white but is shaded by the Agents of Darkness so he can absorb sunlight again.)
This is the only piece I have for this set at the moment. There will be more about the Ultramel Garden in the future.
Darvine the Embalmer
Darvine and Daisy were sisters who worked for the original organization the Aulterhospice. The Aulterhospice was created by a good natured group of people who wanted to help the undead in their afterlife turmoils. In Unbroken Land, its nearly impossible for the spirit to leave the body even after it physically stops working. Darvine and Daisy had created remedies for preserving the decaying bodies of the dead.
The Aulterhospice was overthrown by Mistoppu (not pictured) early in its lifetime.
After witnessing his first undead, Mistoppu was horrified and turned green. This caused his overall hatred for the undead and inspired his taking control of the Aulterhospice. His motive was to make after life as miserable as possible for the patients. In his overthrow of the original organization Mistoppu killed Daisy who was a young woman at the time. Mistoppu renamed the organization the Necropolis Asylum. Darvine’s life was turned upside down after the death of her sister and Mistoppu’s new power. The living conditions of the Necropolis Asylum dwindled into ruin and patients became as restless as inmates. Instead of running away and out of fear, Darvine stayed with the Necropolis Asylum, by Daisy’s side.
These images depict their life 20 some years after Daisy’s death and the overthrow. Darvine is by her side as Daisy soaks in a bath of preservatives. Darvine is close to 50 years old but trauma has made her age faster. She keeps her and her sister’s hair red as it used to be back in their youth. Daisy’s spirit is trapped in a decaying body. Her undead behavior is similar to a deranged elderly person. Darvine has accepted each day of her life as this for the last couple decades and can no longer see hope or beauty. However, she has a deranged love for her sister and her patients. The bodies on the floor are other undead patients that have severely decayed but Darvine stitched them up and removed the rotten parts of their bodies. She then preserved and conditioned their remaining bodies and decorated them in odd patterns.
All of these images and ideas are compiled from several nightmares that took place in 2007-08.
Ceceli’s Origins, December 2011
Ceceli was a half-plant creature that was concieved by the Magnolia Tree Entity. Her other parent is Osservalten, who does not know about Ceceli’s relationship to him. Ceceli, like Osservalten, was grown underground in a placenta-like mass of plant tissue that kept her alive and growing until she was ready to hatch. She was born with the face of the Magnolia Tree Entity but with a harelip. The harelip is a symbol of her relationship with the maternal Magnolia Entity. Ceceli is a submissive child and stays in the dark where the Magnolia can protect her from the outside. Ceceli also has a little tail that further separates her from being a half plant/human, the tail makes her more creature-like.
Intivalten. November 2011
Another from the swimming pond. Not sure if the color scheme of this one lets it fit with the others but I have to share this piece.
This is what Intivalten is.
Intivalten’s Swimming Pond. November 2011
In the Jezebel Trench where Intivalten and Osservalten live in Part 3, there is body of water at the end of the garden. It’s meant for raising jellyfish but Intivalten swims in it a lot of the time.
To know more about Intivalten, click here. I am still in the process of writing and drawing the Jezebel Trench. Hopefully, I will have something about in the next few weeks.
The Horrible Thing in the Water, November 2011
Another diorama piece with a clay figurine.
This thing has some purpose in the new flooded UL that I haven’t quite figured out yet. Its an undead that inhabits the new water and causes problems. I know it gets into The Jezebel Trench and tries to hurt it somehow. (like attacking the jellyfish that live in Intivalten’s swimming pond.)
