Human Heart A Day*55

Another play with my melting Heart, just a little leg sketch...

Human Heart A Day*54

New sketches for my up coming art piece based on the poem Heart Day*50 that I wrote..No where near the eventual masterpiece but its getting there..Pretty cheering the wood pecker worked out... 

Just a little sketch

Coloured in..Yes I used coloured pencils and regretted it again..

Human Heart A Day*53

My Awesome room, with its brown walls and pretty Hearts...Going to miss it all so much...But have to keep moving forward...

Human Heart A Day*52

Attention!!! Anyone who does not wish to see a dead bird and its innards please look away for this one..P.S. I did not kill anything by the way..


So last week my bestie and I were having our usual after chiro walk when I found this AMAZING rainbow lorikeet laying dead on the ground, covered in ants..Seriously my best find so far...
Anyone who knows me is aware of my obsession with dead things, but since I refuse to kill anything I have to rely on road kill..


Anyway, I have been researching taxidermy via the net for a while now but wasn't sure if I'd ever have the guts to cut anything open..So im very proud to say I finally faced my fears and sliced open and gutted my very first animal..Was so scary at first but turned out being quite fun and a weirdly awesome bonding experience for my mother and I..She guided me through what I had to do, as a child she used to watch her mum prepare the chickens..


After gutting and cleaning out the little birdie I filled it with salt and put it in a salt bath..This is technically mummification not taxidermy, so should take about 35 days in salt to preserve it properly...Dying to see if its worked and of course, the Heart lover kept its Heart.. <3

Birdie Heart, now living in a jar of meths on my bed side table..

Birdie Heart, lungs and intestines..

Birdie gutted with its intestines, lungs
and Heart in the background

Human Heart A Day*51

Decided to start some sketches to go with with the poem I wrote yesterday...Not exactly how I see it finished in my head, but its a good start I think..I started drawing the intestines and the rest but wasn't happy with how it looked, not sure if ill include them in the finished piece...

Human Heart A Day*50

The big 50!! So far and yet not even half way there...Things have been quite hectic in my life lately so I had to take a break from my Hearts...But im back, theres no way im giving up now...Wrote a poem last night, first creative thing I've done in weeks, its going to be the basis for one of my new paintings..Started the sketches today..

Only thing that makes sense...

As the wood pecker beats on my ever melting heart I feel the loss                      running through my veins, icy tentacles branching out...

The void filling with the tears of the ocean, clotting in my throat,    seeping out of my mind...

Ripping out my hair, cascading down like poison ivy, maggots feeding on rotting flesh, tunnels weaving round...

As the puzzle pieces fall my vision blurs, cracked like 7 years but dragging through a lifetime...