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A. Renée Ciccariello

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iykyk and if you don’t well… you’re just going to have to wait! Honestly it’s been in the pipeline so long you could say it feels like this is… *ancient life* at this point.

Original Paleontological Illustrations of [REDACTED] hand drawn by me, age 18, at 25x magnification (I think) approximately 8 years and a thousand lifetimes ago.

This is not a drill. It’s really happening!

This is also not a diagram, computer rendering, or some other thing, this is stipplework done with a micron pen, a microscope, and a teal-haired teenage paleontologist with perpetual patience to dot dot dot all day long. Feel free to drop in my DMs and interrogate me on that or pinch&zoom in on the crazy overlap between those two bones and stare at pointillism until the modern world loses all meaning!!

And before you ask - yes the fossils DO have weird jaggedy looking pieces there. The stipplework is shading though they are not polka dots.

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©A. Renée Ciccariello July 2017. This image may only be used or shared with advance permission by the artist (me) and proper attribution. In case I need to say this another way: I put every dot on that paper myself with my hand with a micron pen less than a millimeter wide. It took over a week staring through a microscope. Show your friends, but show them on your screen, not on your story, and please don’t feed my work through scraping tools. Thanks for understanding. A paleontological illustration of two overlapping jaw bones from a fossil fish in the shape of a T done in black and white line work shaded with stippling. Contact the author and artist for more information. by @digdinos12

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a year ago

Photo from 2017, inside the Dall Sheep diorama.

I don’t have words to explain every reason why the Academy is important. How it shaped who I am. I don’t have the energy to explain why closing the museum is monumentally pointless if the issue is money.

Frankly, I don’t know what I can do. But I can show you ANS through the eyes of a teal-haired teenager ten years ago. taken in The Academy of Natural Sciences by @digdinos12

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21 days ago

Anyone still using insta like it’s 2011 instead of like it’s TikTok? by @digdinos12

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2 months ago

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a year ago

Lionfish and Jellies and Piranhas, oh my!

All in all turning 24 was awesome, and not just because I got to spend three hours at the aquarium with this one ❤️ taken in OdySea Aquarium by @digdinos12

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4 years ago

– Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems… –

– an inspiration is what you are to me – taken in Phoenix, Arizona by @digdinos12

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4 years ago

– Oh, the sea was red, and the sky was grey
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today – by @digdinos12

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4 years ago

Further proof my cat is part vampire? 🤔🦇🐈‍⬛ by @digdinos12

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4 years ago

Until next time, stay classy, Phoenix taken in Phoenix, Arizona by @digdinos12

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4 years ago

Pinch and Zoom on the most detailed panorama I have ever captured from the top of a mountain in 40mph winds

I’m going to miss it here. taken in White Rocks, Deadwood, Sd by @digdinos12

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5 years ago

Behold: the least artistic shot I will ever post!

Today I taped up the first box for the move. I started packing weeks ago, but I kept leaving the boxes open in case I needed to add anything or remove anything. Today I took the leap of faith 'anything I need out of one of these, I can wait 3 weeks to retrieve.' Tape 'em up boys. See you on the other side.

This is much. Much. Harder than it should be. By this September I will have moved 12 times in the 6 years I've been adulting. I should be good at this by now. Most of the moves have been solo, frequently with assorted other unpleasant circumstances. (Shoutout to when I was briefly homeless in Philadelphia, and trying to 'move out' of an apartment to nowhere before a lease expired on the 25th!) I've moved in summer, winter, fall, and spring, rain, snow, extreme heat, ice, and persistent depression. I've moved so much, standing still is the hard part. This is the longest I've ever done that on my own. 17 months in the same ever-shittier apartment. The last 4 moves have all been local within this area too, I've been in SoDak for 31 months. That's long enough that I shouldn't be counting in months anymore, but I was in Philly for 29, so the margin is slim.

Am I hyperfixating on the stats to avoid the emotions of this? You betcha!

If anyone has any moving advice, even the wacky grandma advice, I'll take it now. as long as it's not a kanye lyric in a subtweet. My advice is this - have scissors on hand before you resort to cutting packing tape with a bic lighter.

As I was packing, the liner for my 180 gram vinyl edition of White Crosses fluttered out of the ether. (Pictured here, with an eclectic composition of my keys, an old receipt, and a dried ring of prawn masala on my coffee table)
And yeah, I am "looking for context and perspective" in all of this, raging against myself most of all, trying to find answers. Laura prays 'Saint Augustine, shine your light down on me' and he's the patron saint of sore eyes, so I guess I'll echo that too.

and, of course

"I'll make my way back home to you" taken in Lead, South Dakota by @digdinos12

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5 years ago

—The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!

Holy the vast lamb of the middleclass! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion!

Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity!—

Ginsberg might not have said it but I will: Holy the Hills of South Dakota!

It’s been forever since I posted but it’s been a good forever. Back to landscapes and feeling feelings just a little different this time. by @digdinos12

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