don’t undress my love

you might find a mannequin:

don’t undress the mannequin 

you might find

my love. 

she’s long ago

forgotten me. 

she’s trying on a new

hat 

and looks more the 

coquette

than ever.

she is a

child

and a mannequin

and death. 

I can’t hate 

that. 

she didn’t do

anything 

unusual. 

I only wanted her

to.

- Charles Bukowski 

foam and laytex mannequin

created by TayTonic

I wanted to see the Universe so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away

(and she went off to look for it, trailing occasional fish…)

Dr. Who/Sandman crossover fanart created by TayTonic

pen and watercolor on paper

Queen of the Savages

created collaboratively by TayTonic & Mr. Mengazikov
work in progress, pen drawing.

Dual/Devotion (5 of 5)

created by TayTonic

pen and watercolor on paper

Dual/Devotion (4 of 5)

created by TayTonic

pen and watercolor on paper

Dual/Devotion (3 of 5)

created by TayTonic

pen and watercolor on paper

— Kathi Appelt

“And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis … leaves something  out, which is your feeling .. beyond knowledge, or in spite of  knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know..? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world.”
Anaïs Nin

The Sorcerer and the Saboteur

created by TayTonic

collage of pen, ink and pencil drawings, 18”x24”