Drawtober day 10. My self-imposed prompt today was “Dragon.”
I wanted to do something inspired by medieval depictions of dragons, back when dragon was a synonymn for a devil or demon. Dragons in older art weren’t necessarily reptilian but more of a hodge podge of animal parts meant to defy logic and terrify the faithful.
“Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.”
I am really tempted to write an essay about the strange hinges between beautiful, lovely and pleasurable things and the ugly, repulsive and undesirable things. Especially in terms of flesh and gore and pain and monsters and the divine.
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