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Andrea Bonazzi

@andreabonazzi.bsky.social

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Starving artist. Weird art. Cosmic horror. https://linktr.ee/andrea.bonazzi

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 21d

These are very difficult times. And I am one step away from disappearing from the Web, even though this profile will probably remain online without any further updates. If you'd like to buy me a cup of coffee to support my Weird art and keep the wolf from the door... paypal.me/AndreaBonazzi. Thanks.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 6h

“Italy has effectively returned to being the only European country that does not have a minimum income measure aimed at all poor individuals as such, but only at certain categories.”
And that's why I'm literally starving.

Povertà, il disastro di Giorgia Meloni nei dai della Caritas

Mentre il Reddito di cittadinanza riduceva l’incidenza della povertà dall’8,9% al 7,5%, l’Adi la porta solo all’8,3%. E il 40,6% dei poveri che ricevevano il RdC oggi è escluso

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · Jul 15

“Dei Culti Oscuri” (Dark Cults), by Giovanni Gabello. In octavo, Genova, 1791. My Cthulhu Mythos grimoire made in 1991 with Amiga 500 and dot matrix printer. Free PDF download from my blog: in-tenebris-scriptus.blogspot.com/2014/08/dei-....
#Lovecraftian #pseudobiblion #pseudobiblium #Necronomicon

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · Jan 31

An overly cluttered desk.
With my #Lovecraftian sculptures and props, of course.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 1d

The cobwebs in my fridge.

Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 1d

Repost, just to show that I'm still technically alive.

Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · Jun 30

Old stuff again.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · Jun 25

Old stuff.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 2d

My old cell phone sometimes turns itself off, and more often it suddenly stops recognizing the SIM card (and my brain doesn't work any better). So it's not very easy for me to stay online.

"no sim card" screenshot from my cell phone

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 3d

Still here, recharging my cell phone for this month at the last moment thanks to a donation. I'm still trying to figure out how to solve all the remaining troubles, including the thick fog clouding my mind.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 4d

The end. My laptop just died. My phone is slowly dying. Depressed. No money left for food, to pay any bills, nor to recharge my cell. Maybe a couple of months before being left without electricity. It seems like this is a goodbye.
Maybe I'll be back sometimes through public free Wi-Fi. Maybe not.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 5d

"Unclassified find, Green Crystal Sphere, 1931."
Modelling clay on metal wire, with 40mm. green crystal sphere, 2021, cm. 24,7x16x6.
#lovecraftian #cthulhu #weird #sculpture

Green Cthulhu sculpture with a transparent crystal ball inserted.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 5d

"Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni. With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stance."

‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni

With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stance

www.theguardian.com

Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 6d

Nostalgia for the time when I could earn a living from my work and use social media to post and view Weird art and fiction, instead of witnessing the collapse of civilization and the prospect of imminent war.
I made this in 2001: Lovecraft with one of my sculptures (the vortex is a painted mirror).

Black and white photomontage of a young H.P. Lovecraft leaning with his left hand on a large stele, carved with tentacle motifs and indecipherable inscriptions, in which figures with tentacled faces look at a central panel depicting a vortex.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 7d

General strike on Friday. It will be a tough clash with the present far-right Italian government.

On Gaza general strike on Friday 3 October. The two unions' challenge to the Guarantors over the lack of notice. Here is what they risk

Both the CGIL and the Usb had announced the stoppage of all categories in the event of an Israeli attack on the Flotilla, derogating from the minimum 10-day notice period. But the Guarantee Commission...

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 7d

Here, the city port is blocked and demonstrations are still ongoing at midnight.

Strike called in Italy, protests flare over interception of Gaza aid ships

Italian unions called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the international aid flotilla for Gaza, while protests sprang up in a number of cities late on Wednesday after reports that the ships had been intercepted by military personnel.

www.reuters.com

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 7d

Well, I just added a Lovecraftian flying creature, but this is the city I survive in.

Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · Jan 25

Sunset view of the port city of Genoa (Italy), with floating creature.
Digital montage and frame-by-frame animation.
#Lovecraftian #Cthulhu #Genoa #Genova

Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 7d

Here.

Dockworkers in Genoa and Livorno block Israeli arms shipment, as mass protests denounce genocide in Gaza

Dockworkers’ blockade of an Israeli arms shipment in Genoa exposes the power of the working class against genocide—yet it also highlights the urgent need for independent, international, revolutionary ...

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 9d

"Miskatonic University early excavations, 1901."
Digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian sculptures.
#lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

Black-and-white photograph of a man dressed in early 20th-century clothing, standing next to a large statue of Cthulhu partially unearthed at an archaeological dig in the countryside.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · Jul 11

"Miskatonic University Expedition, Far East, 1896."
Digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian sculptures.
#lovecraft #cthulhu #leng

Photo-montage of an image from the late 1800s: two Asians in traditional dress in front of the tall Lovecraftian sculpture of a tentacle-covered stele.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 11d

"Absolute poverty is a cause for concern in Italy: nearly 10% of the population remains unprotected."
Yep, I'm quietly in that 10%.
tg24-sky-it.translate.goog/economia/202...

Povertà assoluta, il 10% degli italiani è senza tutele. I dati

Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Povertà assoluta, allarme in Italia: quasi il 10% della popolazione senza tutele. I dati

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 11d

Old digital photomontage with one of my Cthulhu sculptures.

Black and white photo of two explorers wearing pith helmets and early 20th-century clothing, in a rocky and desert valley, standing in front of a large high-relief stele depicting Cthulhu and engraved with indecipherable inscriptions.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 12d

BlueSky shows that if you offer up a reasonable alternative to a toxic App, a sustainable audience will migrate and stick with you through the growing pains.
We need to start doing this for EVERY compromised App, from TikTok to Facebook.
And I think UK/Europe should be doing this ASAP together.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 13d

Depressed.
After five years, people continue to sell this image on the web as “real.” It seems that everyone except me is able to profit from my work.
It is a digital photomontage I composed in 2020 featuring one of my Lovecraftian sculptures as usual.

Black and white photomontage: Middle East archaeological excavation in the early 20th century, with a large Lovecraftian stele depicting a vortex of tentacles, surrounded by local workers.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Kindred spirits: the exhibition exploring our endless fascination with ghosts

Visualising the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel charts how spooks and ghouls in artworks reflect shifting anxieties about everything from technology to sex

www.theguardian.com

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 14d

Exhausted. Hopeless.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 15d

"Northern Europe, early 1900s."
Digital photomontage with one of my Cthulhu sculptures.

Black and white photo: a gentleman dressed in early 20th-century clothing, accompanied by two goats, sitting on a steep rock beneath a statue carved into a rock face depicting a tangle of tentacles.