Sarah B. Guest Perry
@sarahbguestperry.bsky.social
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Writer and on line art curator, also art blogger.
Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 20th 2025 and an overcast day here in Boston . . .
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 20th 2025 and an overcast day here in Boston . . .
smiling on air on the bright red mittens of a little girl on ice skates as on the edge of the great park a hiss and then a hoot .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-132?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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my new blog post. The American West in 1853-1858
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Imagery of an American West that isnât coming back. Taken from the 1858 work âDiary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States Government Expedition.â Volumes ...
ZĂșni, New Mexico. Balduin Möllhausen, artist. Hanhart, chromolithographers. Page 119 of the 1858 work Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific With a United States GoverâŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/19/imagery-of-an-american-west-that-isnt-coming-back-taken-from-the-1858-work-diary-of-a-journey-from-the-mississippi-to-the-coasts-of-the-pacific-with-a-united-states-government-expedition-volum/
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An envisioning. 1974, and a mid-afternoon in February watching the frozen rain come down at the Scheherazade Apartments.
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my new short fiction piece
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An envisioning. 1974, and a mid-afternoon in February watching the frozen rain come down at the Scheherazade Apartments.
Oh to be here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/an-envisioning-1974-and-a-mid-afternoon?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Friday October 17th in the 2025 fall show. . .
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my series post for today
4 days ago
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Ceramic pumpkins. British. Penkridge Ceramics, artist. Taken from their Instagram.
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Balmoral Castle on Instagram: "The morning light at Balmoral was truly magical today."
1,301 likes, 26 comments - balmoral_castle on October 15, 2025: "The morning light at Balmoral was truly magical today.".
https://www.instagram.com/balmoral_castle/p/DP0_DayjePh/?hl=en
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Wednesday October 15th in the 2025 fall show . . .
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Wednesday October 15th in the 2025 fall show . . .
sparking off the talons of the raptor up on the statueâs head out in the cemetery as he looks around for a treat dinner to take home to his wife .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-d79?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
6 days ago
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Stoneware vase. 1900. French. Red, green, and blue glaze with a gilt bronze snake mount done by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat. Maison Keller. via Sotheby's.
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Rhinoceros beetle vase. ca. 1905. Art Nouveau. French. Lucien Gaillard, designer. via
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Cobweb valentine. ca. 1830-1860. Artist not known. via
hyperallergic.com
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An envisioning. 2021, three in the afternoon, June, and the sun blazing away at the house on Panmure Way.
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An envisioning. 2021, three in the afternoon, June, and the sun blazing away at the house on Panmure Way.
Oh to be here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/an-envisioning-2021-three-in-the?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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a new cocktail shaker added, the bear seen here
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Silver cocktail shakers in fascinating designs. Mostly 1930âs. Mostly American with one made in Germany. All making you want a daiquiri right this minute.
Silver-plated lighthouse cocktail shaker in the form of a windowed lighthouse with a gallery around the light. ca. 1930. American. Made in Rochester, New York by the Van Bergh Silver Plate Company.âŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2019/05/31/silver-cocktail-shakers-in-fascinating-designs-mostly-1930s-american-all-making-you-want-a-daiquiri-right-this-minute/
7 days ago
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Clive Nichols, photographer.
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Clive Nichols on Instagram: "Autumn splendour at @thorp.perrow.arboretum A row of majestic Acer palmatum âOzakazukiâ cloaked in red on a late October afternoon. đđđ Happy Sunday all â€ïž . . . . . . ....
2,314 likes, 46 comments - clivenichols on October 12, 2025: "Autumn splendour at @thorp.perrow.arboretum A row of majestic Acer palmatum âOzakazukiâ cloaked in red on a late October afternoon. đđđ H...
https://www.instagram.com/clivenichols/p/DPs7OZ7DM9o/
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sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/14/v...
my new blog post
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Visions of Bonwit Teller from an early 1950 photo shoot. Corset shop, bridal salon and lots more. Why Bonwit Teller? First I couldnât find anything from I Magnin. Second my mother worked the Christmas...
Bridal room, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer sâŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/14/visions-of-bonwit-teller-from-an-early-1950-photo-shoot-corset-shop-bridal-salon-and-lots-more-why-bonwit-teller-first-i-couldnt-find-anything-from-i-magnin-second-my-mother
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Architectural Digest France on Instagram: "đ„ @margarida.sa.maia"
8,989 likes, 94 comments - ad_magazine on October 9, 2025: "đ„ @margarida.sa.maia".
https://www.instagram.com/ad_magazine/reel/DPnYqGHkudD/
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Monday October 13th in the 2025 show with the nor'easter's winds sound mighty eerie whistling through the tree branches, at least where I am.
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my fall series post for today
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Monday October 13th in the 2025 show with the nor'easter's winds sound mighty eerie whistling through the tree branches, at least where I am.
wailing on air as the werewolf howls away as in the Halloween pop up store downtown everyone goes home for the night and the masks start to come alive .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-d11?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Witch cutouts from the 1923 Dennison's Halloween Cut-Outs Number H-37. via Nancy Prince @dennisonarchivist on Instagram. via Instagram.
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Cauldron gummed seals. Stock Number H682, produced from 1924-1926 by Dennison Manufacturing. via @dailydennison on Instagram. via Instagram.
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new watercolor added
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my new blog post
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Shrimp (prawn) gems. Not that much jewelry modeled up to look like shrimp cocktail but that makes it more fun.
Shrimp brooch. Pearlized enamel body with faux gray pearls. Made in 1960. Signed Marcel Boucher. Image © 1stDibs.com, Inc. 2025. Fair use license. Shrimp Cocktail earrings. Hand-beaded with bronze âŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/11/shrimp-prawn-gems-not-that-much-jewelry-modeled-up-to-look-like-shrimp-cocktail-but-that-makes-it-more-fun/
10 days ago
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 11th in the 2025 fall show . . .
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 11th in the 2025 fall show . . .
meandering on air as a baby seahorse gives her pesky brother a smack with her tail and the tailwinds of a wind turbine start to go berserk as it cartwheels across the sky .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-3c6?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Visions of far away places in far away times done up as engravings for Le Magasin Pittoresque. These from 1857 and 1858 issues. Published in Paris, it looks like a mid 19th century version of the long...
Un paysage prĂšs de Baracoa â dans lâĂźle de Cuba â Dessin de Karl Girandet. Page 5, Image 11 from a 1857 issue of Le Magasin Pittoresque. Getty Collections. In the public domain duâŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/10/visions-of-far-away-places-in-far-away-times-done-up-as-engravings-for-le-magasin-pittoresque-these-from-1857-and-1858-issues-published-in-paris-it-looks-like-a-mid-19th-century-version-of-the-long/
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Diverses nĂ©buleuses et amas dâĂ©toiles. Page 213, Image 639 from a 1858 issue of Le Magasin Pittoresque. Getty Collections. In the public domain due to age.
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 10th in the 2025 show . . .
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 10th in the 2025 show . . .
waltzing through air as the gun magnateâs daughter slowly goes mad .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-89c?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
11 days ago
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An envisioning. 2015, mid-afternoon, and a February filled with light shining through icicles at the apartment in Gloriana Heights.
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An envisioning. 2015, mid-afternoon, and a February filled with light shining through icicles at the apartment in Gloriana Heights.
Oh to be here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/an-envisioning-2015-mid-afternoon?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
12 days ago
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art, October 9th edition in the 2025 fall show.
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my fall series post for today
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art, October 9th edition in the 2025 fall show.
sparking on air on the tip of a beam of light at the end of a magic wand as somewhere far to the south something rises up from the bottom of the sea .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-october-2ce?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
12 days ago
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Spider jewel. 2020. American. Krystal Bijoux Jewelry, maker. via Facebook.
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Ariel on a Batâs Back. 1819. British. Henry Singleton, artist (1766â1839). Collection of the Tate Gallery, London.
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my new blog post
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 6th in the 2025 fall show . . .
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 6th in the 2025 fall show . . .
wandering in on a ravenâs caw as the riders of the dark and unknown gallop into the abandoned valley with each neigh making something spark into a zillion flames and boom like being inside a huge bell...
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-5de?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
15 days ago
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Dennison Jack o lantern seals from 1922. via Nancy Price @dennisonarchivist on Instagram. via Instagram.
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Bits and pieces of French imperial life that the lâImpĂ©ratrice EugĂ©nie managed to hold onto in her life in exile in England. From a catalogue for a 1928 exposition titled De NapolĂ©on Ier Ă NapolĂ©on II...
MusĂ©e National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLĂON Ier Ă NAPOLĂON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. ConservĂ©es par lâImpĂ©ratrice EugĂ©nie dans sa rĂ©sidence de Farnborough et provenaâŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/05/bits-and-pieces-of-french-imperial-life-that-the-limperatrice-eugenie-managed-to-hold-onto-in-her-life-in-exile-in-england-from-a-catalogue-for-a-1928-exposition-titled-de-napoleon-ier-a-napoleon-i/
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An envisioning. 2022, mid-February, and ice stormed in at Ostreum Hall.
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An envisioning. 2022, mid-February, and ice stormed in at Ostreum Hall.
Oh to be here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/an-envisioning-2022-mid-february?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Hand fans from the October email of Fan dâEventails Paris. Perfect for wafting that potpourri scent along.
Biarritz souvenir fan with a red gauze leaf painted with flowers and birds and embroidered with beads, forming, once the fan is folded, the name of the city Biarritz. Wooden sticks and guards. ca. âŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/04/hand-fans-from-the-october-email-of-fan-deventails-paris-perfect-for-wafting-that-potpourri-scent-along/
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this goes with yesterday's post which is Volume 3
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Flower pictures from The Floristâs Journal for the Year 1843, Volume 4. Part of a set of bound copies, this one being bound with Volume 3. Each volume has the 1886 bookplate of Sir Lionel Walter Roths...
Martynia Fragans. Alfred Adlard, engraver. Published on January 1, 1843. A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, London, printers. Plate 36, Page 301, The Floristâs Journal for the Year 1843. ColâŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/03/flower-pictures-from-the-florists-journal-for-the-year-1843-volume-4-part-of-a-set-of-bound-copies-this-one-being-bound-with-volume-3-each-volume-has-the-1886-bookplate-of-sir-lionel-walter-roth/
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Duke of Wellington. Alfred Adlard, engraver. Published on March 1, 1843. A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, London, printer. Plate 40, Page 383, The Florist's Journal for the Year 1843. Collections of the Natural History Museum, London. via the Internet Archive.
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 3rd in the MMXXV fall show . . .
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for October 3rd in the MMXXV fall show . . .
swishing on air as somewhere far beyond where the southernmost sea blows wild and free the ice starts to move .
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Women dressed up in bat costumes. 1920. via
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my new blog post
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Set design sketches from a 1904 production of âLe voyage de la mariĂ©e,â(opĂ©rette en trois actes) staged at the ThĂ©Ăątre des Galeries, Brussels, Belgium. Georges Sauvage (1845-1918), designer and artis...
Set design sketch for Act II, Scene 3 of a production of Edmond Diet and Justin ClĂ©riceâs Le voyage de la mariĂ©e, an operetta in three parts, staged at the ThĂ©Ăątre des Galeries, in Brussels, âŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2025/10/02/set-design-sketches-from-a-1904-production-of-le-voyage-de-la-marieeoperette-en-trois-actes-staged-at-the-theatre-des-galeries-brussels-belgium-georges-sauvage-1845-1918-designer-and-art/
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1-4. Textile, Ambiente, 1965; Designed by Timo Sarpaneva; Manufactured by Tampella AB; Cotton; Finland four images not just this one. All gorgeous
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on Instagram: "#TextileTuesday, Timo Sarpaneva edition. đïž The flowing, painterly strokes of Sarpaneva's âAmbienteâ textile designs were inspired by a malfunct...
99 likes, 0 comments - cooperhewitt on September 30, 2025: "#TextileTuesday, Timo Sarpaneva edition. đïž The flowing, painterly strokes of Sarpaneva's âAmbienteâ textile designs were inspired by a malf...
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An envisioning. December 2016 and December with a mid-afternoon haze of something at the villa in Wooliston Grove.
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my new envisioning
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An envisioning. December 2016 and December with a mid-afternoon haze of something at the villa in Wooliston Grove.
Oh to be here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/an-envisioning-december-2016-and?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art, October 1st issue in the MMXXV show . . .
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my series post for today
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âThe Moonâs Trousseauâ. ca. 2010. British. Stephen Mackey, artist.
stephenmackey.com
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pinterest.com
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 30th in the 2025 show. . .
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sparkling on air as the tip of the green ribbon in the aurora borealis fades as far away in a frozen sea a ghostly ship from a long-ago time sets sail .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-f73?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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a new lithograph added, this one of the pyramids.
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Egypt, close up enough to hear the camel bells as the caravan heads for the headwaters of the Nile. One of an island off Sinai. From âEgypt & Nubia From Drawings Made On The Spot,â a series of over 20...
View of the Great Pyramids of Giza. 1848. British. Hand colored lithograph with the view having been drawn by David Roberts in 1839 and lithographed by Louis Haghe in 1842. Image © 2025 GeographicuâŠ
https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2019/09/04/egypt-close-up-enough-to-hear-the-camel-bells-as-the-caravan-heads-for-the-headwaters-of-the-nile-one-of-an-island-off-sinai-from-egypt-nubia-from-drawings-made-on-the-spot-a-series-of-o/
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Sunday September 28th in the 2025 fall show . . . some of the images here from close to the beginning and some just found today.
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Sunday September 28th in the 2025 fall show . . . some of the images here from close to the beginning and some just found today.
sparking on air as in the depths of a mansion abandoned to the waves a mutant raptor grows and grows .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-921?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Saturday September 27th issue in the 2025 fall show
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Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Saturday September 27th issue in the 2025 fall show
wandering on air with the swirling smoke of a tsarinaâs cigarette in its foot-long FabergĂ© holder .
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-0ac?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Sophocent Scurrasalto-Currio from the series Timorpersona which is based on monsters and villains from the movies. Print. Contemporary. British. Richard Wilkinson, artist. via John Andrews on Facebook.
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