Sunday Soundtrack - Disappear Here.

Disappear here. from raloup on 8tracks.

A short, slightly sinister mix for summer. 

It's been a while since I put a playlist together. 

I have effectively absented myself from blogging of late - life beyond my laptop screen is moving at breakneck speed, and I've had better things to do, really. 

Still, this is a sweet moment of Sunday procrastination. 

The Climb Continues? Sam Wolfe Connelly.

Thirteen Steps in the Underworld.

A recent Sam Wolfe Connelly piece for an upcoming Su-Yee Lin story, soon to be published on Tor. I look forward to reading it once it's up; this image has certainly sparked my interest.

I love the delicate sense of fear and hesitation shown by the positioning of the figure's hands. And as always, Connelly's sepia tones and shadowy contours. The lighting from below is particularly perfect.

The slight impression of claustrophobia speaks to my apparent inability to get any work done today... The climb that began last week continues, but slowly today, it seems.

What do you do when you feel unproductive? How do you drive away procrastination?

Getting off the damn internet would probably be a good start.

Such Sweet Sorrow; Sam Wolfe Connelly.

Alex.

Bleary Night.

Backfill.

The sheer gorgeousness of these graphite works by Sam Wolfe Connelly have set my teeth on edge. Especially Alex; the grief on the girl's face is almost too exquisite. I wish I could purchase a print... If you have more money than I do at the moment, you can make it your own here. The piece's backstory gives it even more power:

"This is a portrait of the one girl [I] used to treasure more than anything.

Her expression in the drawing is actually from a photograph I took some time back, of her crying right before she left me. She never knew that this photo was taken. I had no reason of even why I took a picture of her, or what possessed me to keep it. Immediately after I had taken it I had forgotten about it, up until right before my show when I found it digging through my things. So, I turned it into a drawing."

See more of his work here.