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“I saw further than all the others,
through worlds of shadow and frost.”
— Völuspá, Poetic Edda

Made on an iPhone. No AI.

#otherwiseinvisible
#mythicportrait
#poeticportraiture
#dreamstateportrait
#liminalbeing
wyrdart
“She shone even through the veil,
and the gods gathered to witness her light.”
— Kojiki (Shinto Creation Myth)

Made on an iPhone. No AI.

#otherwiseinvisible
#mythicportrait
#kojiki
#shintomythology
#mythopoetic
#archetypalfigure
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“Sleep came over her eyes, gentle and irresistible.”
— Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Made on an iPhone. No AI.

#otherwiseinvisible
#mythicportrait
#homerichymns
#mythopoetic
#dreamstateportrait
#archetypalfigure
#liminalbeing
#gentledark
“I am yesterday; I know tomorrow.
I have come into being again, renewed in fire.”
— Egyptian Book of the Dead, Spell 17

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#otherwiseinvisible #mythicportrait #egyptianmythology #bookofthedead #renewedinfire #archetypal #mythopoetic
“Mist covered her, and no one saw how she passed through the crowd—
the goddess hidden in her sorrow.”
— Homeric Hymn to Demeter

#otherwiseinvisible #mythicportrait #homerichymns #demeter #mythopoetic #archetypal #darkportrai
In the old stories, the ones who returned from the edge wore two faces — the one they arrived with, and the one made in the fire.

#otherwiseinvisible #mythicportrait #archetypal #mythopoetic #darkportraiture #cinematicportrait #wabisabiart #sh
“Darkness is not absence — it is the place where forms decide what they will become.”
— Inspired by the Izanami creation myth

Handmade on iPhone. No AI.
Fragments layered from photographs and physical textures.

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#otherwise
“The softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest. The intangible penetrates the impenetrable. Thereby I know the value of non-action.”
— Tao Te Ching, 43

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Portrait of my grandson, layered in unseen threads — memory, lov
“Every thread is a story returning home.”
(A myth echo — weaving as remembrance, connecting the living and the divine.)

Handmade on iPhone. No AI. Otherwise Invisible. / #otherwiseinvisible #fullwyrd #thethreadbetweenworlds #mythic
“Night, mother of gods, source of all, from whom all beings spring.”
— Orphic Hymn to Night

Handmade on iPhone. No AI. Otherwise Invisible.

#otherwiseinvisible #fullwyrd #mythicportrait #modernmyth #visualalchemy #orphicnight #myt
“Memory is not what remains — it’s what refuses to leave.”
— Mnemosyne

Built from fragments of past portraits. Handmade on iPhone. No AI.
Otherwise Invisible: revealing what lives beneath the surface.

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#otherwiseinvi
“I built my face from reflections — until the mirror broke and I remained.”
— Narcissus

Built from fragments of past portraits. Handmade on iPhone. No AI.
Otherwise Invisible: revealing what lives unseen beneath the surface.
“My mouth is fire. My words are smoke. My vision devours me.”
(From the Sibylline Oracles — the voice of the seer who burns to speak.)

Built from fragments of past portraits. Handmade on iPhone. No AI.

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#otherwiseinvisible #fullw
“Through shadow I remembered the way the light once spoke my name.”

Built from fragments of past work. Handmade on iPhone. No AI.

#otherwiseinvisible #fullwyrd #mythicportrait #modernmyth #visualalchemy #postphotography #handmadeart #ip
“From the shadows I rise, not reborn but remembered — carrying the night that crowned me.”
(Mythic resurrection energy — Persephone / Hecate)
Handmade on iPhone. No AI.

#otherwiseinvisible #fullwyrd #mythicportrait #modernmyt
“I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star.”
— Egyptian Book of the Dead (adapted)

Part of my Otherwise Invisible mythic portrait series —originally created in 2016. Shot and made on an iP
“The void is not empty. It hums with all that ever was.”
(Orphic cosmology — the Night that births the cosmic egg.)

Fragments of works, photographed and layered by hand — no AI.
I make art and experiences that create connecti
“From my depths, the gods were born — and from my breaking, the world began.”
(Inspired by the Babylonian creation myth of Tiamat — goddess of saltwater and chaos.)

Built from fragments of past work. Hand-made on iPhone. No A
“I am Nut, and I have placed a limit upon the sky. I have set all the gods in their places.”
— Egyptian Book of the Dead

Built from fragments of past work. Made by hand on iPhone. No AI.

#otherwiseinvisible #fullwyrd #mythicportra
“I am a child of earth and starry heaven, but my race is of heaven alone.”
— Orphic Gold Tablet, Thurii

Portrait of @mi.lisok, photographed in Dublin — layered and marked with fragments of works displayed in the Seattle Art M

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