“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.” So writes Victor Hugo (Les Misérables). But do not forget that the one you devour with your eyes has her own eyes. What can she see, what can she devour? When she is finished with you, what parts of you will remain?
What parts will be gone?
The top image is an unpublished Geranium Lake Properties comic that was created by Yost to be a part of “The Mystery of the Inauspicious Trees” before he re-wrote the larger part of that adventure, maybe as much as eighty per cent. (That’s my theory, which is supported by the Dawe-Saffery twins.) The second image was published in “Inauspicious Trees” as part of the dramatic moment when the demalion Almayail Im-nayi Kuzimjumla emerges from the bark of a yerastyne tree, more commonly known as an umbrella thorn acacia.
This mask of Almayail Im-nayi Kuzimjumla appears on the back cover of my first calendar for 2024. The other mask in today’s post can be found in the Full Phiz Masks 2024 Calendar, adorning the month of May. Did I write that there will be three calendars of masks for 2024? I ended up making five. However, the fourth calendar is almost exactly the same as the third calendar.
Masks for All Seasons is the fifth calendar for 2024, and will be (hopefully) the final calendar. But there will be more mask designs adapted for mugs, t-shirts and possibly a few throw pillows.
Vraicking 