mustachioed - A short poem detail

Mustachioed - A short poem

A short poem I wrote and illustrated, inspired by Shel Silverstein and a little Roald Dahl. As a kid and still as an adult I really like the thought provoking and often unsettling nature of these poems and stories. They remind me of the sublime. From Wikkipedia: In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis "sloping up to the lintel, uplifted, high, lofty, elevated, exalted") is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. The idea of the sublime really took hold during the Gothic era and inspired great debate about art vs. nature and beauty (art) vs. greatness (nature.) The sublime can also refer to "unlimited" and "spacious" qualities. I think this is why these stories and poems make me think of the Sublime- because they open my mind up and it seems to become so expansive that it just keeps going and going. It fills me with a sense of awe, but also an unsettling strangeness I have trouble describing -like a fleeting instance of clarity that feels shocking and mysterious...

Character of the Day - Dame Flamingo and The Beat Flamingo Curiosity Shop

Dame Flamingo lives in an old dilapidated plantation home in Sarasota. She and her uncle Holland Q. Harding travel the world collecting oddities. She also reads palms and performs hypnosis.