This is a study for the Plague Wind drawing. That drawing was based loosely around Bruegel's Triumph of Death and the album art of the band Skaven. The Skaven are a breed of rat like humanoids from Warhammer, who will take over the world. Ideally.
The floral motif works well with the black death; people actually believed roses and chrysanthemum would cure or at least slow the onset of the bubonic plague.
These flowers appear in the original, and in the lower right corner of this piece. I plan to use these two symbols again. The top one is Japanese, and the lower one, the chrysanthemum, is my own.
I think that Plague Wind is the most abstract drawing of the series, the drawing just looks like one giant symbol and, despite the English text at the bottom, it still seems very alien. The study was fun. The large text in the middle is another ambigram, present but smaller in the original.
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I love what you're doing with your new work home slice. Also, if you're interested, studio space has opened up at my shop. We etch now and will be setting up stuff for screen. Regardless, give me a shout and let's get a beer somewheres.
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