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7″ x 10″ watercolor on 100% cotton arch

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents.” –H.P Lovecraft, “Call of Cthulhu”

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This piece is a present for Doug’s birthday, as well as Illustration Friday’s topic “wrinkles.” It is The Great Old One, based on H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos .

You can read more about why he loves this genre here

It’s really a reminder that everyone gets old, even the Great Old One, and that eventually when he wakes, the world will end, everyone will go mad, so we may as well enjoy life before the night comes.

How existentialistic are we? heheh