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SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM
is a piece about complex
post-traumatic stress disorder,
substance abuse, grief, loss, planchettes,
abandonment wounds, thousand yard staring,
astral projecting on antipsychotics, being so innately
psychic that people think you're insane, having such an
unfathomably terrible biological 'father' that you end up
with an umbrella tattooed on your wrist, drinking kraken spiced
rum alone in your room, living with ghosts and generally being haunted.
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i can't seem to recall when i started working on this
— neverending trauma will do that to you —
but it's definitely the hardest i've ever worked on
an illustration, and maybe the hardest i ever will.
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