“I was born on the night of Samhain,  when the barrier between the worlds  is whisper-thin and when magic,  old magic, sings its heady and sweet song  to anyone who cares to hear it.” ― Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch Happy Hallowe'en! Welcome to The Art of Caesura! If my calculations are correct, Hallowe'en only falls on a Friday (the day my blog posts go live) once every 6-7 years (leap years probably mess with this), so today is a special occasion indeed.  I recently attended a TED talk by Dr. Jenny Butler, a Lecturer at University College Cork where she teaches courses on mythology, folk religion, new religious movements, and Western esotericism. Her TED talk was on "Samhain and the Origins of Halloween".  Dr. Jenny Butler Long-time readers of the blog will know that I love Hallowe'en, so I really loved her talk, and I'm excited to share aspects of it with you today! A couple last things before we start: for a fun Hallowe'en festivity, check out the...

We stopped looking for monsters under our beds when we realized that they were inside us. - Charles Darwin Greetings mortals and welcome to this spooky special Hallowe'en post on The Art of Caesura! Autumn is my favourite season and Hallowe'en is (among) my favourite holiday(ies), so it seems only appropriate that we should have a bit of a celebration for it! Last year , I bamBOOzled you with a Hallowe'en pub quiz, this year I'll terrorize you with my top 5 creepiest models that have appeared on the blog thus far! Number 5: The Hybrid Let's cast our minds waaaaaays back to when this blog was just a nascent, amorphous collection - much like this model's head. Indeed, this model was one of the very first that I painted on the blog way back in March 2016! It is still one of the creepiest, the alien head (which I further horrified with its pale, larval pate and wet, glossy finish) not to mention the human head - from which it has just emerged.  Number 4: Preyton Whi...