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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 27.
Onion.

"For years the tears fell
without touching the ground.
On this night they hit the floor."
Mary Ruefle

#inktober #inktober2025

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 1d

I keep my quotes disordered. Never found a good way to do it. I have it saved on goodreads, in my notes app, in sketchbooks, on random pieces of paper. Like that :)

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for your kind words! I am really touched.

I am on basically everything (except for twitter ) under the same name @meanwhileplaces. But I post same thing everywhere.

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober day 26.
Puzzling.

"Hope wears strange raincoat and straps a gun inside."
- Mary Ruefle

#inktober #inktober2025

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober day 25.
Inferno.

"Bright sunlight can also be very sad, have you noticed?"
- Mary Ruefle

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 8d

Inktober day 17.
Ornate.

"Notice the ornate legs."
-Raymond Carver

#inktober #inktober2025

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 11d

Inktober day 16.
Blunder.

"A pity. We were such a good invention."
- Yehuda Amichai.

#inktober #inktober2025 #yehudaAmichai

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 12d

It's a picture book!

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 12d

Inktober day 15.
Ragged.

"...of a joy which wasn't and isn't and won't be words."
e. e. cummings.

#inktober #inktober2025

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 13d

I am so thrilled to share the cover for THE WISE PICKLE, written by Sarah Howden and published by Tundra. This delightful story follows a pickle who mysteriously appears in front of a dry cleaner's, slowly desiccating and telling wisdom to animals.

Available June 2026.

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 17d

Inktober day 11.
Sting.

"Not for ever, maybe, but for sure. "
Rain on the river.
Jim Dodge

#inktober #jimdodge

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 18d

Inktober day 10.
SWEEP

"If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up.

THE DAYDREAMER
IAN McEWAN

#inktober #inktober2025 #ianMcewan #minotaur

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 19d

Inktober day 9.
Heavy.

'There are no conclusions to reach. The stone falls till it hits the earth."

Rain on the River
Jim Dodge

#dailydrawing #inktober #inktober2025 #jimDodge

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 19d

Inktober day 8.
Reckless.

"You'll tell me", he said, "if I start to talk crazy".
Sing to it
Amy Hempel

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 19d

Inktober day 7.

"I lived here for so long. Here and not here".
Sing to it
Amy Hempel

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 20d

Inktober day 6. Pierce

"The cave paintings at Lascaux are unnecessarily beautiful, though perhaps magic, to enjoin, makes beauty a necessity."

Rain on the river by Jim Dodge.

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 21d

So happy to share one of the funnest projects from last year. It is a cover from Chemical Society Reviews illustrating some of the unique features of transport through carbon nanotube channels.

The review article that accompanies the cover talks about the details. lnkd.in/gEisze_4

Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · 21d

Inktober day 5.

“Well,” Bob offered with a dry sweetness, “for sure it’s better than something worse.”
Rain on the river
Jim Dodge

#dailyDrawing #Inktober #inktober2025

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 23

The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice.

The Potato Face Blind Man sat with his accordion. And the old man had his legs crossed, one foot on the sidewalk, the other foot up in the air. The foot up in the air had a green rat sitting on it.

Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 22

Molly Nilsson concert in Elsewhere.
She is so great!

Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 18

Now that I started to draw my photos, I started taking different pictures. I am taking pictures of things that made me happy.

A stack of blinis, made from my great-aunt's recipe. A book that I accidentally discovered that is so weird and funny. A secret compartment in the wall in a supermarket.

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 12

Potato face blind man and a green rat from Rootabaga pigeons by Carl Sandburg.

Ok. I am getting somewhere. Not sure where yet.

#dailydrawings #rootabagaPigeons

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 11

September visual diary pages. While I contemplate the Potato face Blind man and the green Rat (from Rootabaga Pigeons by Carl Sandburg).

#dailydrawing

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 10

Decided to illustrate Rootabaga Pigeons by Carl Sandburg as a personal project...

Some projects flow, some projects feel like i am walking in a sandstorm trying to feel my way around, but my eyes and my ears and my sandals are full of sand. I have a lot more frustrated drawings in my sketchbook.

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Sabina Hahn @meanwhileplaces.bsky.social · Sep 3

A is for August for Akira.

#dailyDrawing

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