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Maria Strutz

@mariastrutz.bsky.social

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Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects. Foxes, owls, stones and bones I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts; have a look-see and enjoy :) https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3h

I am going to be away from here for a little while; I am travelling to the ragged East Coast of Hookland, and hoping to commune with wind, waves, seals and seahags.
Be kind to yourselves and each other 🦭🌀🐚

person on the right had side facing the left, standing on a katamaran sledgelike structure riding waves, surrounded by seals, whales and manatees, diving and breaching. Collection of small linocuts printed around each other, shades of blue on white. Maria Strutz

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you Bob 🧡
Also, the first pumpkin art ever for me... Not surprisingly not the first fox art though ;)🦊🌿🌖

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 18h

thank you so much :) 🧡🌿🎃🐾🦊

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 18h

thank you 🧡

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 18h

My pumpkins don't seem to come up under the #Guild11Mysterium hashtag, I do not know why... @rendernev.bsky.social 🎃🌀🍂

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 21h

I think so too, fox looking very pleased and slightly mischievous. Also, 'my precioussss'...

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 21h

what a wonderful and inspired joyful Pumpkin-ling 🧡

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 21h

wonderful and musically talented pumpkin-lings 🧡

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 21h

P.S. the original prompt was 'precocious pumpkin-lings' 🌿

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 21h

First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium
Mine has morphed into 'Precious Pumpkin-lings'; a fox having collected a hoard of delicious little pumpkins for winter 🦊🌖🍂
#Guild11Mysterium

a sitting fox facing the viewer surrounded by pumpkins, pumpkins hanging on vines above the fox. In the nightly sky an orange full moon. line drawing and water colours, Maria Strutz

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 1d

First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium: “Precocious Pumpkin-ling”
#Guild11Mysterium

My drawing of a precocious kitty pumpkin-ling in bright festive Halloween attire.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium: “Precocious Pumpkin-ling”
#Guild11Mysterium

You might have to click to see the full image.

Three little jazzy pumpkin players on piano, bass, and drums.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, Hookland!
I find this so moving, Harriet Rain waking to find apported swan feathers enfolding her bed.
Sending much love 🌿

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, arent' they lovely?! 🍄🌖🌿

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Amanita is helpful for revelations

Swirly psychedelic art of a frog or toad sitting cross-legged on a fly agaric mushroom, surrounded by other mushrooms, by Shamanska Kate

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
#CephalopodAwarenessDays

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 9

For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
#Octopus Frontlet
Moche (La Mina), Peru, 300–600 CE
Gold, chrysocolla, shells
H. 11 × W. 16 15/16 × D. 1 3/4 in. (27.9 × 43.1 × 4.4 cm)
Museo de la Nación, Lima, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú (MN-14602)
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

official museum photo of the gold octopus frontlet, full front view on black background

“This object would have been affixed to a cylindrical headdress. Made of gold sheet, it was cut into the shape of a supernatural figure with serrated octopus tentacles that terminate in catfish heads. The creature rests on two clawlike feet, depicted in low relief. Reportedly found at La Mina, in the Jequetepeque Valley, the frontlet is remarkably similar to an example illustrated on a ceramic vessel from Dos Cabezas.”

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 2d

oh, I'm glad to hear that! 🍄
I remember trying to fit the words to the song and it just didn't want to fit. Until it finally did. Amanita revelation 🤍🌿🍄

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 2d

:) I have never seen one in the wild, would love to see them snuffling around. I love their claws as well 🐾

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

🤍🐾🌒🌿🖤

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

badgers are very satisfying to draw I find. Also, apparently it is #Brocktober - Badger Month... 🖤🐾🤍

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

And thank you for that beautiful wish 🤍🌿🌀

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

In celebration of #NationalBadgerDay
'Under the Badger Moon' 🤍🌖🖤

2 badgers running towards each other, each badger reflected below, above and below the badgers crescent moons. There are stars above, and below the badgers, overall forming a figure 8. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

what a beautiful illustration! 🦊🐾🌻
Ages ago I studied Theatre design (stage and costume); the final project was 'design for opera'. One of the operas was 'The Cunning Little Vixen'. Loved the opera, the design process, collaboration with the singers/ other students. Director was an a*** though

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

she did indeed 🪶

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 3d

If you have not yet got one of your own...
bsky.app/profile/toms...

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · Aug 26

In a land that had cried out for the Latchless door...
Order page is up! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-...
By @taliskimberley.bsky.social , Illustrated by me, with foreword by @hookland.bsky.social
This is a small book (A5) UK only for now. Limited edition, signed and numbered.

Cover art for The Latchless Door by Takis Kimberley, illustrated by Thomas Brown with foreword by David Southwell.

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Latchless Door: Foreword text
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Talis
11:06 (10 minutes ago)
to me

Foreword by David Southwell

Rhymes have power. We know this at a bone-deep level. At school, the
texts of great novels and plays were studied. Can many of us remember
and quote more than odd line of them? Rarely. Can we remember a dozen
rhymes of the playground? Of course we can. They’ve tattooed themselves
upon our psychic skin. They’ve become part of us.

Rhymes are magic. We know this. Some deeply ancient part of us
understands. They summon. They seal. Banish and transform. They are
apotropaic acts. A spoken, chanted ritual of correspondences that pulls
on the strings of enfolding worlds.

Songs, well we all know about them. Songs are engines of emotion,
inspirers of action. They are invocations, enchantments. Clear high
sorcery. An alchemy of mood change. Songs are openers of the ways. Few
things can challenge their potential for discovering, mapping and
celebrating the hidden parts of ourselves.

It is for these reasons I regard The Latchless Door as a book of magic.

On the following pages you will find magic that Talis Kimberley has
created, collected and manifested.

Here are the rhyme-spells for ending and beginning things, for stitching
the wounds of the heart so that it can love again. Here are the rhyme
spells that will turn the bolts of wickets to Faery (whether they will
unbolt the gates from the other side is another matter). Here are the
rhyme-spells to open doors to memories we thought long lost. Memories of
the time we talked with a tree and it taught us a little of the green
language. Memories we now understand were locked away for good reason.
You know the sort I mean. Recollections of the spiderweb sutured woman
we used to glimpse living in the realm between the mirror’s glass and
silvering.

Here are the song-spells that summon the Queen of Owls, that let us feel
the blade of winter’s ice falling upon the year even while we are in the
stretching of summer heat.

ere are the song-spells to invoke the The
Hum or the feral saints of folk faith whose names are all but forgotten.
Here are the song spells to ward against untethered temporal shades, to
turn the Marsh Ape from from your door and loose the ankle grip of Stay
Below.

If you doubt the potent magic of Talis’s rhymes and songs, just study
the illustrations they have called forth from Thomas Brown. Ripe with a
sense of unearthed gods and feral mysteries, they dance to its score.
Chanted and song into existence, they throb with a shared sense of the
land as transmission.

The Latchless Door offers paths to the occulted within and without.
These are traditions that never were and always were. Truths you have
always known and felt, but never had put into words before. This is a
navigation of routes not only into Hookland, but the living current of
folklore it springs from.

People often tell me I am mad for having created Hookland as a
pre-enchanted landscape for others to freely use. My usual response is
to list all of wonderful things that have manifested from a belief
artists don’t always need to be landlords for the places they create.
I’m going to be able to add The Latchless Door to the list of wonderful
things.

Of course, no-one needs my validation for their exploration of the
county. It is part of the Commonwealth of the Imagination. I am merely a
guide to it and so is Talis Kimberley.