Lily Shaffer


silver spore trap

4 x 4 x .5 in

Auto-generated description: A small, textured canvas features glittery silver and pink elements with a central abstract design in earthy tones.

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Auto-generated description: A melted and charred pink object is coated with silver glitter and a green sticky substance.

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d e s e rt

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first version:
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Auto-generated description: A small sculpture of an angel with closed eyes is placed on a windowsill next to a glass vase containing lavender, with a view of trees outside the window.
pale ruin (Mak’s kitchen windowsill)

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violet petal pollen

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pearl streaming

Auto-generated description: A surreal depiction of a multi-legged, glossy creature with a feline-like head on a textured background.
raw wolf misty

Auto-generated description: A translucent object resembling a shrimp is placed on a spiky surface, possibly a cactus.
cactus curler

the elephant medusa’s second body

Auto-generated description: A distorted and abstract composition with layered textures and indistinct shapes, creating a dark and surreal visual.

notes:

elephants

sand-paneled sheets melted out of a lost friend’s ear
mythal waste (filthy tissue white-strophy) a skinless dice, bark and jerky
shards in manzanian wastelands, looterykins lying in piles of rag-bed orchards
hearts almost closed to the super-lone giant, but a sigh of relief, their voice
barely audible: “good morning.”


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I think in the beginning, the process of adding pink and then slowly layering felt like I was trying to bring how I interpreted your image (sterile and forensic cyborgian specimen turned monument) back to life, but it just kept decaying instead. Every adjustment slipping away, like I was pulling something out of the grave or future museum only for it to turn to dust in my iPad/hands.

I feel a sense of weight and form and presence; something highly refined, deliberate in your original image and now it’s this unstable, flickering thing… still tied to the original, but a failed necromancy. I wanted maybe something in the transformation that felt like a resurrection in some ways, but I got something more like decomposition in anti-real-time.

kite smoker

4 x 4 x .5 in

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Auto-generated description: A small, abstract mixed-media artwork features various textures and colors, including pink, black, and gold, on a flat surface.

pantomiming grass candy

8 x 10 x 2.75 in

Auto-generated description: A textured, abstract artwork features various organic elements and glossy overlays in a pink-bordered frame.

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Auto-generated description: A close-up view of a book's page edges featuring a resin-like coating with pink and greenish details.

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angels

8.5 x 11 in

𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳
𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥-𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

Auto-generated description: A pencil drawing depicts a humanoid figure with wings, standing against a light background, alongside a smaller, shadowy winged silhouette.

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blooms, sprouts, & star jelly

Auto-generated description: A surreal composition featuring a pink, fleshy surface resembling an open clam with a distorted central figure inside.daughter lettuce Auto-generated description: A surreal, abstract depiction of a plant growing from a shiny, skeletal structure with a luminescent glow.harvest moon

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Auto-generated description: A colorful, abstract sculpture features layered crystal-like forms in shades of red, pink, blue, and green.belladonnalala Auto-generated description: A small round object, perhaps a fruit, is encased within a large melting block of ice with emerging sprouts or roots.leafy slugfairy


daughter lettuce (as a hat for smoochy empusa mantis)




harvest moon sunset




giant heart stalk (tears for slug angel)

francesca

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beep boop peeps

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mitt mirror

4 x 6 x .5 in

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palm slots journal

Auto-generated description: A pattern of abstract shapes and colors is layered over a background with geometric designs and some sketches.

frothloamens

finding splinters in your own leucine spongaia
a beam of tiny cones scattered across both poles
witnessing the tangled orb before dawn breaks
1,000 morels bursting from the hollowed stone…



frothloamens is now online @lightharvestingcomplex

Auto-generated description: An abstract, dreamy composition featuring translucent, overlapping textures with hints of greenery and light reflections.

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Auto-generated description: A cluster of mushrooms with a textured, layered appearance grows on a tree trunk.

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Auto-generated description: A textured stone surface is overlaid with a colorful, abstract artwork and scattered shells or stones.

miss tangles

Auto-generated description: A dark, surreal drawing depicts a long-haired creature with elongated limbs reaching for a suspended heart illuminated by a light above.

elephants

sand-paneled sheets melted out of a lost friend’s ear
mythal waste (filthy tissue white-strophy) a skinless dice, bark and jerky
shards in manzanian wastelands, looterykins lying in piles of rag-bed orchards
hearts almost closed to the super-lone giant, but a sigh of relief, their voice
barely audible: “good morning.”

moon court mousse jamboree

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halopaths

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quicksand butterfly

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quicksand dust swirled into butterfly wings,
fermenting tongues to make watermelon lizard pneuma

violet lung husks

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decadent entrails

Auto-generated description: A piece of meat is wrapped with an intricate pattern of thin ropes and threaded objects.

petal genie

Auto-generated description: A surreal, abstract composition blends a human face with flowers and artistic distortions.

shimmy feather lagoon

Auto-generated description: A swirling, abstract composition with dark tones and hints of colorful, cosmic elements.

light fried cirrus

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bibbidibobbidiboo

Auto-generated description: A creatively abstract artwork combines blurred colors, hazy textures, and whimsical illustrations of clouds, a hand, and a foot within a distorted frame.

scream pig, jaw bones, cursive prosthetics

9 x 12 x .75 in

Auto-generated description: A dark and abstract artwork features a hollow central area surrounded by textured elements and fragmented human forms.

Auto-generated description: A dark, abstract texture with swirling, glossy black and red colors, featuring sporadic patches of lighter, bone-like elements.

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teleplacenta (2)

10 x 10 x .75 in

Auto-generated description: A textured artwork featuring an abstract, organic shape with a glossy finish and pinkish hues is mounted on a speckled wall.

Auto-generated description: A partially melted, abstract object with a soft pink hue and irregular shapes sits on a speckled, glossy surface.

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