A linocut print of a stylized winged skull, a puritan's death head, above the name of the artist: Eric Clift-Thompson.
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Eric Clift-Thompson (He/They) is a transgender Ohio artist and educator who uses macabre prose, printmaking, illustration, collage, and zines to connect a horror niche of LGBTQ and disabled communities. His work has been featured in places such as Sean-Christopher Gallery, ROY G BIV Gallery, the cover of Botticelli Magazine, and the private collection of politician Morgan Harper. Eric’s dedication to accessibility and representation was recognized by Shawnee State University where he received the 2019 Lavender Graduation Campus Advocate Award the year he graduated magna cum laude with his Visual Communications BFA. He earned his MFA in Visual Arts at Columbus College of Art & Design where he also graduated magna cum laude. In his current position as an adjunct professor at the Columbus College of Art & Design, Eric has received multiple nominations for the Teaching Excellence Award.

Eric finds inspiration in folklore, historical imagery, alternative subcultures, and music— particularly the sounds and culture of early European music.


For CV, business inquiries, commissions, and other opportunities, reach out via email (etvtart@gmail.com).



Eric will not participate in projects utilizing, promoting, nor training generative AI and LLMs, and his works cannot be used for these purposes.

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A parade of animals- a hog ringing a bell, a dog carrying a flag, a slender cat with a hurdy gurdy, a short straiped cat with a drum, and big fat calico cat blowing a horn- in a medieval style.
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Section Title: Prints

Title: Spoiled. 4 by 6 linocut print. Description: A portrait of a person in an antique European corseted dress and pearls. Their curly updo is falling in messy strands. They look at the viewer with blank white eyes as a substance runs from around their eyes and onto their cheeks.

Spoiled
2023
4x6 Linocut Print

Title: Revival, 4x6 Linocut Print. Description: A figure with big "bat cave goth" style hair reclines in a coffin with their hands crossed over their chest. They are dressed in a gown that is falling off one shoulder. They look up, smiling, as something leaks from the corner of their mouth

Revival
2022
4x6 Linocut Print

Title: Description: Into the Garden, Series of 3 4x6 Linocut Prints. Description: A nude curvy figure sits with a hand clutched to their chest. Long hair covers their eyes and the moon creates a halo around their head. A hole is where the left breast should be and flower. Each print progressively looks more melted.

Into the Garden
2021
Three 4x6 Linocut Prints

Title: La Dame, 4x6 Linocut Print. Description: A bust of a woman in an old dress staring blankly at the viewer. She wears a tall, lopsided and unraveling powdered wig with ribbons.

La Dame
2021
4x6 Linocut Print

Title: Belated, 4x6 Linocut Print. Description: A vase of daisies sits on a table, surrounded by drapery. An apple core sits next to the vase.

Belated
2021
4x6 Linocut Print

Title: One, 9x12, Linocut Print and Ink. Description: Two skeletons embrace in a coffin, their bones mixing together. Worms, beetles, and maggots create a border around them. A banner at the top reads "We Will Be One Again".

One
2021
9x12 Linocut Print and Ink

Title: The Confrontation of Lucretia. Harsh black shadows illuminate a robed woman, framed by columns, looking down at the audience as she stabs a small knife into her chest.

The Confrontation of Lucretia
2025
4x6 Linocut Print and Digital Color

Title: Rat Pack: Raised by Bats, 2 inch Linocut Print. Description: A two-tailed rat with small bat wings swoops downward

Rat Pack: Raised by Bats
2023
2x2 Linocut Print

Title: Rat Pack: When the Circus Came to Town, 2 inch Linocut Print. Description: A rat dressed as a clown with a ruffled collar, pom pom buttons, a big nose, and a little hat, juggles three sunflower seeds

Rat Pack: When the Circus Came to Town
2023
2x2 Linocut Print

Title: Return to the Lake, Series of 2 4x6 Linocut Prints. Description: A person lays back in water, looking up as their hair floats around them. A second version of the print is shown, slightly smeared in a disorienting circular motion.

Return to the Lake
2021
Two 4x6 Linocut Prints

Title: Rat Pack: The Folly of Love, 2 inch Linocut Print. Description: Two peaceful rats face each other, pointing downward, as their tails form a heart

Rat Pack: The Folly of Love
2023
2x2 Linocut Print

Title: Rat Pack: Innocent, 2 inch Linocut Print. Description: A sleeping rat in a nightcap rests its head on a pillow, cuddling a small teddy bear

Rat Pack: Innocent
2023
2x2 Linocut Print

Title: Rat Pack: Feathery Wings, 2 inch Linocut Print. Description: A rat with a halo and angel wings floats with a content smile

Rat Pack: Feathery Wings
2023
2x2 Linocut Print

Title: Alive, 8x10, Basketball and Cardboard Print. Description: Frankenstein's monster stitches a breast onto its own flat chest.

Alive
2021
8x10 Basketball and Cardboard Print

Section Title: Illustration
A digital painting of my black cat sticking her tongue out as she looks up at me. She is in front of a blue and purple graphic, gestural background with two little white hearts.

Lilith
2026
Digital Illustration

Title: She Who Works Her Will. Digital Illustration. Description: In a style inspired by illuminated manuscripts, the shrouded figure of Hekate stands in front of stone arches, a golden halo behind her. She is flanked by two torches, two snakes, some mandrake plant figures, and two slender dogs. She holds a puppy in one arm and a ring of keys in her free hand.

She Who Works Her Will
2023
Digital Illustration

Title: Love and War Series, Untitled. Two knight helms rest against each other on a chunk of grassy land. A long, tattered piece of fabric is affixed to a sword piercing the ground behind them. The elements come together to form a vaguely phallic shape.

Love and War Series, Untitled
2025
Digital Illustration

Title: Love and War Series, Untitled. Two armored warriors, faces obscured by the shadow of their helmets, are locked in combat. One raises a blade above his head to strike his pinned opponent as the pinned man pushes against the other's chest. The men are framed by stylized trees and a discarded shield in a way that creates a heart.

Love and War Series, Untitled
2025
Digital Illustration

Title: California Dreamin'. A wordless comic. The first panel shows a 1970's muscle car parked outside an old, shack-like church. The trees are bare, and grass peeks through the snow on the ground. The cross on the church is upside down. In the second panel, smoke flows from a swinging censer. The final panel depicts a mustached man praying on his knees. A clawed hand touches his lips. Parts of the individual panels come together to form the head of a cthulhu-type creature.

California Dreamin'
2024
Digital Illustration

Title: Gallantry. A medieval-inspired painting of wrestler Drew McIntyre mimicking images of Saint George. He sits on a rearing horse in a blue robe, a gold halo behind his head, sword sheathed at his side, as he spears the head of a serpent-like dragon on the ground. A scroll in the upper right corner reads: Scottish Warrior, Slayer of Serpents, Teller of Hard Truths.

Gallantry
2025
Digital Illustration

Title: Ascension. (Fan Art: Fear and Hunger) A towering nun eerily smiles as she floats in front of a red-tinted stone arch. Clouds of bats materialize from her headdress.

Ascension
2024
Digital Illustration

Title: The New God. (Fan Art: Fear and Hunger) A figure, draped in cloth and wrapped in a snake, stands elegantly in front of a burst of radiant light. A tall, sharp crown sits among his long, flowing hair.

The New God
2024
Digital Illustration

Title: Enter. Through a green-tinted haze, a ghostly figure of a hunched woman floats at the top of a staircase, framed by curtains.

Enter
2022
Digital Illustration

Section Title: Zines
The title, Prior Arrangements, spelled out in colorful collaged letters A collaged scrap labeling the Table of Contents. In Alt Text, titles will be listed with descriptions. Title: Found Family, 2024. Description: A diagonal grid of rough-edged squares. Each edge has its own aesthetic, but they form a gradient that makes it difficult to define where each one separates. Title: Charcuterie, 2024. Description: Three grid clusters. The first is an abstracted arrangement made from square cutouts of a donut. The Second is a column. The top and bottom images are of cheese, and the middle is from a map that is a similar color. The third sits next to the second, and is made from earthy green and brown square clippings from various images. Title: Vote Turtle, 2025. Description: A grid of rough-edges squares accented by deep blue-green, soft peach, and white with orange squiggle washi tape. The squares flow between subdued yellows, earthy oranges, greens, and deep desaturated green-blues. Two squares stand out due to the presence of text. One says "VOTE turtle" and the other says "Like Spyders" Title: 3/12, 2024. Description: A collage built upon a blank playiing card, covered in a soft green and blue map. On top of the map is are intersecting red-orange and green strips behind a scalloped green shape at the bottom. Title: Auctumnus, 2024. Description: Two diagonally placed grid clusters are tied together by sparse rectangular cuttings between them. They transition between earthy tones, and the images range in content from food, architecture, nature, illustration, and a clip from a COVID-19 testing kit. Title: I Dream We'll Be, 2024. Description: A wobbly, child-like drawing of a house made with a thin, drying black marker, overtop a textured base of torn collage and rolled acrylic paint. Title: Luxury Living Renovations, 2024. Description: Two rectangular collages. The first is a flat graphic depicting the cityscape of Columbus, Ohio, framed by a loud background of yellow animal print. The collaged text reads: (Luxury Living Renovations) The ill-fated Central Ohio city. For the progressive digging into the midwest, do you feel safer building tree-lined real estate for VIP classes, Making Ohio Home for the ongoing Nazi March Through the community? Description: The second collage sits on a strip of fine black and white text. athe image is torn in a wavy diagonal, split between an illustration of old factories and a photo of a glass-front city building with a highway in front of it. Text reads: I Love Ohio. Building the American Dream. Title: On Pink Sand, 2024. Description: An elongated weaving made from strips of paint-layered paper. Neon pink and hints of orange occasionally peek out from teals, royal blues, and muddied gold. Title: Mutable, 2025. Description: Two rectangles of loosely layered marker, one bright pink and the other lime green. A flowy figure is drawn in each. Title: Reverence, 2023. Description: A series of wallet-sized photos of old marble scultures, old Italian painted ceilings, the corner of an old piece of furniture or harpsichord, and a plate with the remains of a whiskey cocktail. Each has a square punched out of them. Some have unrelated images within the squares that flow with the photos. Others are left empty. Title: Buy My Kisses, 2024. Description: A collage of a banner that reads in rough lettering "BUY MY KiSSES?" A vintage image of a woman in lingerie reaches out over the banner, a pink and off-white flower shape like a halo behind her. She is surrounded by little hearts and a cutout of painted red lips. Collaged text on the torn red-pink paper below her reads: "Here I am." This could not go on. Nevertheless, it did. Title: AgainAndAgainAndAgainAndAgain, 2025. Description: Two textured rectangular impressions of paint, ranging from blue to bright red to pink with occasional flecks of yellow and green, with worn white gaps. Parts of the first also has white gaps in the shpe of a thin, wavy net. Title: Serve, 2024. Description: A gridded collage of squares. The grid tapers slightly at the top. The collage shows a variety of texture-focused images, and transitions between deep browns, reds, blues, pinks, and yellows. Title: Domestic Supernova, 2025. Description: A finely textured, rounded rectangualr base of blended yellow, orange, and pink is behind a rough impression of blue. The crumbled patches of blue are interrupted by round gaps, leading to a large, burst-like gap with a lighter round center. Title: Frozen, 2024. Description: Collaged text from an old magazine sit atop a black background with yellow and red flares on the right. Text: Frozen. This was during the war, when The house was a cold tomb. the little children like ice. I kept them wrapped under the basement. Toward evening I uncovered the precious bits. After throwing the last few shovelsful on the fire, The house chilled down fast. "Please, God," I kept praying. I must keep warm. Title: Sample of Occlumanid Taxidermy, 2024. Description: A grid of plastic bread bag tabs, rotated in different directions and arranged in a neat grid. Title: Vision, 2024. Description: Three gridded clusters of collage. The top and largest is warm tones, leading to a painting of a hand holding a brush. The image is cut off to replace the brushtip with a ray of lights from a carnival ride. The second is different images focusing on eyes as well as a close-up of a buckeye candy. The third is a column of grayscale images. A vintage photo of a dazed mustached man in between a black and gray texture and an image of a ripped piece of cardstock on a faint grid. Title: Where Is the Good Life?, 2025. Description: A right-aligned gridded collage of rough-edged square images and pieces of washi tape. The close-up subjects and colors are varied but have a muted, vintage feel. Title: Strappado, 2025. Description: A scattered cluster of cut scraps made of images from Columbus Museum of Art promotional materials. The group is centered around a dark blue-green trapezoid. Title: Passage, 2024. Description: Two rough rectangular patches of tiny dots of pigment. The more dense clusters seem to form the ghosts of figures. Title: Bloodbath, 2025. Description: A ring of clustered images transition between three different palettes and aesthetics: a sensual and feminine red-purple, a brooding and lens-focused red with hints of blue and green, and a grimy collection of green, yellows, and blue-green. The collaged text in the center reads: You might not know it, but After people learn what we've done, no one will Call US the NEW YORK issue. Title: Memory, 2025. Description: A ringed, squared arrangement of patterned and solid washi tape in yellows, oranges, and blues. A small ray of yellow tape bursts from the top left corner of the square. Title: Kin, 2024. Description: Four wallet-sized photos from Italian sites and museums arranged in an uneven grid. Each one has a square punched out of it, the original content replaced with a clipping from a magazine that visually flows into the original despite being from different contexts. Title: Drawn, to Be Hanged, 2025. Description: Collection of gridded rough-edged squares in a soft but dramatic palette primarily made of blues, pink, yellow, and purple. Images within the squares range from photos to comic clippings, but all are removed from their original contexts to focus on color and texture. Title: You Will Meet My Expectations, 2024. Description: A rectangular grid of rough, uneven patches of paint. The base is yellow, and light green and dark purple flows erratically within the yellow shapes. Title: Bird-Scattered, 2025. Description: Four abstratced drawings of dead birds made from sweeping brush pen lines. Title: Chasing Totality, 2024. Description: A collage sits above a patchy rectangle made from similar blues and pinks as its base image: a magazine illustration of factories along a river. The collaged text reads: Chasing Totality. The Dance of Parting Words Grant Little More Justice- VISIONS AND PROMISES A LITTLE SHORT OF MADNESS, A LONF, LONG History, and the END OF AN ERA. Title: Crenate, 2024. Description: Two flower-shaped pieces of paper textured by blue and green paint. The top shape has sharp, dragged marks. The bottom is nearly solid blue with some rough gold, but has a grid of white spots where pigment was removed. A section of a hand-written note can be seen under the blue paint, wishing the recipient happiness in the new year. The bage is blank except for a square in the bottom righthand corner. It contains part of a vintage illustration of a fish, focusing on just its side fin. A collage focused around an image of an orange mouse holding a paintbrush. Scraps above him have phrases such as "THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN CENTRAL OHIO" and "ARTIST" The publishing year, 2026, as well as the artist's contact information sit at the bottom (@ETVTArt, etvt.art).
Description: An illustration of scissors over dotted lines overlay a faded pile of magazine scraps. The title, "I AM GROTESQUE", is in a grungy collage-like font. Description: The scraps and cutting scissors motif continues over the subsequent spreads Text: Grotesque. Gro-tesque. /ɡrōˈtesk/. Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted Description: Collaged creatures decorate the pages- a deer with wings and a rat tail, a wildcat sculpture bust on a bird body and hoofed leg, a child's head morphing into the curls of a wild sled, and others. Text: The word grotesque originates with the rediscovery of Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome. People were fascinated and horrified with the imagery that decorated the walls of the infamously indulgent palace- Hybrid Creatures composed of incongruent parts. Description: A collage depicts a person shaping a clay pot on a wheel. Within the pot is a collage depicting an exaggerated portrait of the artist with bulging eyes, spots, and an enlarged forehead. Text: I had already drawn parallels between my own body and charicatures within the modern grotesque: my nose, my chin, my lumps and bumps... But when delving deeper into the grotesque I found frequent references to trangender people. It was a poignant reminder of how the world viewed me- a horrible hybrid creature composed of incongruent parts. Description: Images of statues and old magazine illustrations are halved to create a centaur and a mermaid. Text: But I began to think about the grotesque and made a realization: the majestic gryphon, alluring mermaids, powerful centaurs, fierce gargoyles... They are all grotesque, too. Not just grotesque, but also beautiful, awe-inspiring, and completely whole just as they are. Description: The previous collage portrait of the artist on a finished vase. Strong arms emerge from the sides of the pot, one of them taken from Michelangelo's painting Creation of Adam. Text: Although the original intent of the authors cannot be changed, I know that I'm more than the sum of my supposedly incongruent parts. I am a whole, complete, and powerful creature. Description: A potted plant with a caricature head and human arms sits below a heart. Text: And you are, too. A flammability notice from a piece of furniture is collaged onto the paper scrap background. The artist's name and contact information is listed below: Eric Clift-Thompson,www.etvt.art,@ETVTArt
The full-wrap cover for Vampthology Book One: Cycle. Description: A lace-textured snake emerges from sprawling branches of nightshade to swallow its own tail. Text (Artist information): Eric Clift, @ETVTArt, etvt.art A waxing moon sits at the center of the dark night sky, framed sharp, bare branches of an oak tree. A few acorns hang from the branches. A vulture stares menacingly from atop a branch. Text: I Will Feed. I am all around you- The mist in your last breath, A shadow in your shelter, The vexing in your veins, And upon those weak veins I will feed. I build my castle from the bones of Your ancestors and you will become The ceiling beams of my parlour and the Pick between my teeth, but for now you Are kine in my field and without fail I will feed. Of course I lust for your despair but what I Love most is your symbolic victories, your Soothing illusions because I will mutate to Suit your fancy. I will pull up a chair. You will welcome me at your table and I will feed. Regardless of consent Or if you are aware, I will evolve as you rot To outlive your children’s children And on them I will feed. A relief of a lamb sleeps atop a tilted broken mirror. A scared person with large round glasses is reflected within the scattered shards of glass. Text: Touch. You hypnotized me with your power And gorged upon my naivety. The image of you haunts me and Ghosts of fingers linger on my flesh. My breath stays still as I turn from The mirror to check over my shoulder. I am forever changed And you go on. Reliefs of bats frame a white arch. Text: A Valediction. O Hunter I write these last words to you, And with these words my fate is sealed, The man who made my still heart beat anew. I thought my muse should hear before I yield. Description: A fanged man in fanciful attire caresses the neck of the bearded hunter, but their image unravels into wisps of smoke. Text: Each day I dream of petting your silk hair, The burning heat of coal-black eyes While tangled in an ardent love affair- A destiny designed to agonize. Descirption: The hunter grimaces, face in shadow, as the vampire’s hand reaches out to him. Text: O Pain is loving those who kill, fair man, Who rouses love with wooden stakes. Eternal death would be far better than The torment of this yearning and heartache. Description: The hunter begins to plunge a stake into the vampire. The vampire smiles with a quill in one hand and the hunter’s wrist in the other. Text: Tonight I will ensure I am saved, By dint of touch I always craved. Description: Two wooden posts emerge from the dark sea. Carved at the top are the heads of two smiling pirates who look into each other’s eyes. Knotted rope connects the posts. A pirate ship sails in the distance below a full moon. Text 1: A Sailor’s Hitch. They put me on the night crew When they found out what I am. Apparently it’s trouble To love another man. Although the wind is wailing And the sky’s a blackish-green My mate makes it the prettiest Sight I’ve ever seen. Text 2: A Blood Knot. O I’ve been on the night crew As long as there’s been sea And there’s never been a sailor Who’s quite so taken me. And although he loves me also Each dawn my heart does cry For there will surely come a night Where I must watch him die. Description: Framed by greenery and sharp branches, a woman in traditional clothes stands with a shovel and watering can. Crows watch her smile gently as the sun sets behind her head, leaving her shrouded in shadow. A humble house sits in the distance. Text: The Garden. Many things can tie a community together, but for this village in particular it was their vegetable garden. The garden, lush and fruitful, was tended to by everyone in town, but one person kept it going strong. She went into the garden each evening and lovingly cared for the plants. Description: The woman gently cups a leaf from a garlic plant. Text: Even long after the town laid to rest she remained, working hard to help each plant flourish… Description: Under a waning moon the woman is on her knees, pulling a garlic bulb from the ground. Her hand is left scarred and smoking. Text: Even the garlic. Description (The Garden, Continued): A pajama-clad person, illuminated by lantern light, recoils in horror at the sight of a bloodied rabbit in the woman’s hands. Text: But one evening she was caught with the blood of a rabbit dripping from her lips. She rushed to where her neighbors were gathered, hoping to reveal herself to them before someone else could. Surely they would not believe her to be a monster after spending these years together. With face splattered and fangs bared, the woman speaks. Dropping to her knees, she confessed: "I am a vampire!" Description: The townsfolk gasp, some whispering amongst themselves. The woman folds her hands as she desperately begs to them. Text: "But truly my labor shows you that I am not the monster you assume me to be for I have spent my nights tending to a garden that cannot feed me… "Even the garlic." Text (The Garden, Continued): Despite her pleas, the neighbors brandished the very garlic she helped grow as they chased her into her home. Description: Cowering against the door, the woman shields her face as garlic crashes through her window. Text: They set the building ablaze with her inside, leaving her to succumb to the flames. Description: Flames engulf the home as smoke fills the sky. A lone bulb of garlic rots in the grass in front of the road to the now abandoned house. Text: The townsfolk lived on and, although their garden was never as abundant, everything tasted just as good to them… Even the garlic. Description: A sewer tunnel drips with ooze. Roaches skitter up the walls. A trail of flies leads to a hunched figure, their flesh ripping and rotting. They peek from behind their bony hands. Text: Growing Pains. Something is amiss. I can feel it in my teeth. Like paper in god’s sadistic hand I crumple, balled up on the dank floor. I try to rise as Chunks of my flesh slough With a nauseating wet slap and Even the roaches scatter in fear. I did not emerge From this as a butter-Fly. I teeter as I stare at a False tetrad of vomit-coated hands. Vermilion tears navigate my Festering wounds. Is this my fate? To wallow in shit, to hide below? My tongue mops the musty blood from my Gnarled cheeks. Maybe this could be worth it. I think it could.
The full-wrap cover for Vampthology Book Two: In Memoriam. Description: A loose and gritty illustration of funeral flowers- roses, lilies, and daisies- engulf the title. Flies buzz around the flowers on the back cover. Text (Artist information): Eric Clift, @ETVTArt, etvt.art Description: Below thick clouds, ivy consumes a leaning brick wall. Dark liquid splashes from the old sewer gate behind. Text: Vernal. A man slinked out of sewer sludge to sing A song of love and loss. Not loss of love But loss of sanity. His flame was spring In fields that flowered spears of fatal glove. The charming beau had left himbound to bed Imagining the green of Paris gaze Against the argent skin like powdered lead And framed by hair like florid orange glaze. And there he hunched while hurling howls of pain, The lethal lips that caused his cruel repose Had remnants rooted within curse of Cain. He slid, breast smudged, lukewarm and heart disposed. Receding down the sewer's bowel grease, His husk deluged the ditch with melodies. Description: Roaches scatter in a confession booth. Under the inverted cross and through the screen, two nuns share the close space in ecstasy. One nun, fanged and smiling, gently tugs on the other's collar to reveal her neck. Text: Unearthly Affair. With lilac lips coated in crimson She divulged her dark desires while I felt the soft ice of undead skin. My cheeks rushed with the scorching of sin But between them stretched her sultry smile With lilac lips coated in crimson. Her hot carnal contact was akin To baptism. It drowned the revile I felt. The soft ice of undead skin Was something of fables forbidden But I will truckle to be defiled With lilac lips coated in crimson. My lungs lurched as she sank her teeth in To make me into her sapphic spile. I felt the soft ice of undead skin When I felt my new frame. I have been Born again in an unhallowed style With lilac lips. Coated in crimson, I felt the soft ice of undead skin. Description: With limbs stretched outwards, a curvy torso is pierced with arrows from all directions. Birds scatter in the sky over the empty field. Text: Cold. We watched as they bound you to the stake, bare and blue and spread like scissors. The metal bolts in your bosom paled compared to the throbbing of my unmarkled chest. Witnesses whispered of a winged beast leaving sanguine prints on a babe;s window sill. After landing it shifted into a woman shaded by a striking shawl of red and black- the same one that always swathed your sturdy shoulders. You did not speak in your defense, but I know you are not to blame for I had borrowed the shawl when I left the warmth of your bed for briak night air. Now we are both cold, Left empty without cover Just like your reed bed. Description: alt= A looping black ribbon breaks in the middle of a figure eight. Text 1: Torn Satin. Lighting curls of hair and lashes The waxy halo wanes, Your features stuck like leather ice Agaiinst the dying flame. I know that you had died tonight But still I can't be sure. Your legs look like they'd lift right now And drag you out the door. So loved one if you hear me now Please leave me not alone. Tangle your limbs around my waist And promise you'll stay home. Text 2: Sacred Shroud. I long to lend my hand, my love, To lift to your drenched lips But you would likely writhe under My lifeless fingertips. I want to believe your warm lament- I know you think it's true, But I think that my lying still Is what is best for you. I'll ve carried to western fields And leave you to dolfrums So you will never have to see The creature I've become. Description: Villagers dance and celebrate, ignoring the small old man hunched over his spiral-carved cane at the far edge of the square. His belongings are in two small sacks at his feet, and a large hill breaks the distant tree line. One man, ornamented in fine clothes, approaches him. Text: His Tools. On the edge of a bustling village, there lived a poor woodcarver. Despite his great skill and kind heart, he was snubbed by his fellow townsfolk. The woodcarver, however, thought he had stumbled upon the chance to have the life he had worked so hard to achieve, A pale man in shimmering finery had the key to a comfortable life in his polished marble hand, and he had extended an offer to the woodcarver: "Build me a home at the top of the hill, decorate it with yout wonderful carvings, and you may reside there with me for the rest of your days." With the stranger's finest tools and materials at his disposal the woodcarver labored from sunrise to sunset, lovingly crafting the house where he would spend the rest of his days... His Tools, Continued. Description: The woodcarver is slumped against a tree, his cane beside him in the grass as the silhouette of the stranger stands against the sky. Text: At the end of each day the pale man came to look upon the woodcarver's work and soon after, drained from exhaustion, the woodcarver would collapse until morning. When the last evening finally came, the woodcarver basked in his masterpiece as he wearily waited for the pale man's arrival. Finally, he could enjoy the fruits of his grueling labor. But the woodcarver would never set foot into the finished house. Description: The pale man walks away towards the house, an inset imag showing off his fangs and bloodied lips. Description: A hand reaches up into a stream of light. The beam breaks between fingers. Text: How dare the moonbeams beat upon me, Reminding me of something lost: A sun that set after a long day That I saw long enough to watch withdraw. The heavens were amber spun sugar- Whispy and sweet and quick to fade. Will I forget that warmth or will its Absence haunt the foyer of my ailed mind? Let me be where the sun is buried Even if it's cole once it sleeps Or if it is no longer comely. Its company will tune my busted heart.
Description: A white background with a blue bar along the left with simple black text. Text: Street Food. A Collaborative Photo Project. Description: A slice of pizza on a red paper plate, sitting on a metal park bench. Description: Left: Crushed, wet celery on a sidewalk. Right: A vertical rid of three images: 1. Green grapes flanked by old baby carrots with a brown dog's nose in the corner 2. An apple core in the grass 3. A dramatically lit and mostly eaten red bell pepper next to a baggy of misc. veggies and sitting water. Description: A grid of images. The largest and center image is of tortillas on gravel, splattered with red sauce from a nearby jug. Left: 1. A brick wall sharply tapering to frame two bagged sandwiches from above. 2. Two pieces of toast on a sidewalk; one has a bite bitten out of it. Right: 1. An open pizza box laying between a sidewalk and brick path, surrounded by scattered pieces of pizza eaten nearly up to the crust. 2. A dog's shadow is cast on a sidewalk, and Cheez-It crackers make a flowing line through the negative space. Description: 1. Image looking down at a sidewalk with some grass at the top. The sidewalk has a ripped piece of bread on the left and a wet spot on the right framing a piece of crust, a packet of ketchup, and a packet of mustard. 2. Two shadowed rotten bananas mirroring each other on gravel. 3. A bone on gravel, a few shredded remnants of meat still on it. 4. The heel of a bread loaf along cracked asphalt. 5. A clipped image of bread scraps with a curved vertical motion blur. Description: 1. The other portion of 5 from the previous spread. 2. A dark shadow over a blurred picure of rubble and a rotten banana. 3. A harshly lit bundle of browning Dole bananas, still in a plastic ring from the store, sitting on asphalt and gravel. Description: A series of photos taken at night. 1. An apple core. A crack in the asphalt looks like it threads the apple. 2. Side view of a partially-eaten bagel on asphalt. 3. The same bagel from A top view, the cracks in the asphalt radiating from the bagel. 3. The same apple as the first image, taken from the side. 4. A plastic-wrapped apple on a curved gray surface. Description: The same roll of lunch meat with white filling in grass, surrounded by scattered leaves. The first image shows it from above, and the second at a closer diagonal. Description: 1. A black plastic container containing a handful of spaghetti sitting on a mulched flower bed. Long green leaves drape over it, and a clear plastic fork sits nearby. 2. A small poerion of a bagel sitting amonst bright pink flowers. 3. A clear retail container of fruit, potentially watermelon, sitting on a concrete ledge in front of grass. A plastic bag on top of it contains slices of another fruit or vegetable. 4. A slice pf bread and piece of lunch meat inside of a bag covered in water droplets. Description: 1. A plastic bag is open just enough to see two fresh bananas. Autumn leaves are scattered in the grass around it. 2. A grid created by slabs of concrete, asphalt with wet leaves, and a patch of grass. Two mirrored pieces of rotten banana peel sit oin one of the concrete slabs. 3. A small rectangualr piece of pepperoni pizza on a sidewalk next to grass. On the right, a standing person's green shoes can be seen. Description: 1. A baggy of slices of bread and cheese sitting on a gray metal bus stop bench, topped by an empty baggy and a loose piece of bread. 2. A baggy of assorted vegetables sitting on the corner of a bus stop's gray metal frame. 3. Bagged sandwiches on a black bus stop bench spill from a grocery bag and onto the ground. 4. A hand points at two folded pieces of cheese stuck to the glass of a storefront. 5. Assorted veggies are in a scattered pile on a short gray wall that runs diagonally accross the image. Description: 1. A rotting orange-colored fruit sits in the middle of a leafless plant's many branches. 2. Two crushed orange-colored fruts and some scattered pieces are framed by thin lines of shadow on a sidewalk. 3. Light catches crumpled foil on top of a thick piece of bread. Description: 1. A floral-patterned paper plate sits on a mulched flower bed's concrete block retaining wall. There is a concha, some breaded meat, and other scraps on the plate. 2. At night, streetlamps illuminate a bag of bread sitting on an electical box. A "SPEED LIMIT 15" sign is on a wooden pole behind the box. 3. A bagged sandwich sits between a concrete curb and dead grass, surrounded by broken branches on an overcast day. Description: 1. A concrete parking marker surrounded by 3 discarded bagels. 2. A separated sesame seed bun casting dark shadows on gravel. 3. A scattered trail of matzos cut in half by a shadow cast by something off-frame. 4. A wrinkled sesame seed bun on gravel from above. Description: 1. Citrus peels scattered diagonally across damp, cracked asphalt. 2. A low angle shot of a streetlamp-lit dumpster, a banana peering over the ledge of the open side door as steam flows behind it. 3. The same banana, but in a much less dramatic side shot. 4. Two bananas and an orange sitting on the ledge to the sliding side door of a dumpster. Description: 1. The tip of a hot dog and a small bit of bread on top of a thick chevron-patterned rubber mat. 2. A partially-eaten piece of toast on asphalt. 3. An old foil-wrapped hot dog sitting in a black metal fixture on the side of a brick building. 4. Ripped pieces of bread and scattered craps sit on a metal cover on the ground labeled "ELECTRIC" Description: 1. Half of a squished bread pocket with filling sitting on a sidewalk. 2. Squished peeled oranges sit on concrete, framed by the brick and metal of a building's walls. 3. A close-up of a plastic bag in grass, opened enough to see two bananas. 4. A lemon slice on asphalt, framed by an open car door. Description: 1. A half-squished rotten banana amongst gravel and garbage scraps. 2. A box of Entenmann's chocolate-frosted donuts, half-empty, leaned against a curb on front of a building. Description: 1. A divided brown paper tray sitting on a sidewalk with black beans left in one of the slots. 2. Scattered baby carrots on asphalt. Some are crushed. 3. A pair of sealed orange and white string cheese sticks on a sidewalk. 4. A peeled rotten banana on a sidewalk. Its rotten peel sits behind it. 5. The shadow of a sog on a leash on a sidewalk. The leash's shadow weaves between two scraps of bread. Description: 1. A red and green candy necklace sitting next to a banana on the corner of a gray metal bus stop during golden hour. 2. A browning banana on top of an electrical box, lit by streetlights. An old Twizzler-style candy on gravel. Description: 1. A scattered handful of blueberries on the concrete ledge of a brick wall. 2. A pristine bagged sandwich on speckled stone stairs. 3. Half of a glazed donut in a plastic bag, sitting on a stone wall in front of black metal railing. Description: 1. A view of the side door of a dumpster from the door on the opposite side. A silhouetted banana sits across the ledge. 2. The same banana, but closer and from the opposite side. 3. A pair of brown spotted bananas on top of a gray metal electrical box that has dark worn splotches. 4. A blackened banana sitting diagonally on asphalt. A yellow painted line runs parallel to it. Description: 1. A stone brick path speckled with small yellow leaves. A chicken wing sits in the center. 2. A mostly-eaten Chipotle burrito bowl on a patch of grass. Its aluminum lid teeters between the cras and the concrrete curb. Description: A blank white spread with simple black text in the bottom right corner. Text: 'Street Food' was a collaborative photo project between artists and husbands Eric Clift-Thompson and Blake Thompson. All photos were taken in their home of Columbus, Ohio. Description: The back cover, solid blue, with white text at the bottom. Text: 2022-2024, @ETVTArt, @maplesuckup
Section Title: Community Projects
An image of a mural on a large barn door.In it, a robin sits on a branch surrounded by rays of light and simple white butterflies. Text reads: If I can stop one hearts from breaking, I shall not live in vain. A progress gif plays when moused over. Me, the artist, looking over my shoulder as I paint the robin mural in a candid shot. Me, the artist, standing in front of the finished robin mural. A compilation of a few painted floral fence and door accents done at the same site as the robin mural a couple of years later. A compilation of a few painted floral fence and door accents done at the same site as the robin mural a couple of years later.