Study of a Gug II
© Kirsty Greenwood 2001
pencil over double negative on silver photography card, inspired by H.P Lovrcraft's Gugs.
30cmx40cm
"It was a paw, fully two feet and a half across, and equipped with formidable talons. After it came another paw, and after that a great black-furred arm to which both of the paws were attached by short forearms. Then two pink eyes shone, and the head of the awakened gug sentry, large as a barrel, wabbled into view. The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally." H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
"Under the starry sky night black
Woman goes dumb...............
......................Her heart.......................
And the beat,,.................
Of scarlet plumes...............
Convulse .....................
In the slants of mist ..............
She looks up..................
Into the torn stillness..............
The trees are wet...............
Utterly silent..................
.............
......................No wind can sing them." Helen Calcutt.
Illustration for 'Dreams the Genus: Nightmares the Species' Tigz Rice and Helen Calcutt.
link to buy 'Dreams the Genus: Nightmares the Species...........................'