The Book Of Lost Verses Book 8 Collection

Mark Humes, Lord of the Abyss, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Looking away from the light, I gazed into the darkness, A quiet, comforting void safe of all action and thought. Then my eyes focused and I looked upon the Lord of the Abyss. My illusions of peace in the darkness were shattered as I realized the monsters that break your body might live in the light but the monsters who mean to take your soul will always be unseen in the dark.

Mark Humes, The last cipher, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

The equation of the meaning of life and our ever-changing understanding of right and wrong has been an endless cipher since humanity first learned to reason. In our modern time, We seem to have settled on situational morality as the final answer. I feel the last cipher will always be is there a power awaiting us at the end of this mortal coil with the final solution.

Mark Humes, Perspective divides us, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

So much is dependent on perspective. What is beauty, to an alien eye? How can you explain the world to a person until you know how they see it. Perspective divides us more effectively than any wall.

Mark Humes,Condemned: So let us burn, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

The threat of punishment becomes completely ineffective when you are asked to live a life of deprivation. Then as you try to walk the narrow path, you are still called guilty for little more than how you were born. If I am to be condemned, I am going to let my life burn brighter than the sun.

Mark Humes,My soul for vengeance, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

At what price vengeance? A question I deeply ponder as life experience can often be the worst teacher. Years, A lifetime, your soul or the spirits of thousands over hundreds of years? At what point do we walk away, Is it when we realize there can be no justice while hatred is in your heart, or is it when the need for satisfaction drives us to martyrdom and becoming bigger monsters than the ones we hunted.

Mark Humes, Raijin: Breaking the storm seal, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

As we the human race gained knowledge over time, we sealed away from our deities. Then as the wind blew, I looked to the sky with a crack of thunder and a flash of light, I saw Raijin shatter the storm seal of his prison. I am told all of what I saw can be explained away with science and an overactive imagination yet I will say this; I will always put more faith in nature and the unknown than humanity given the track record.

Mark Humes, Raising the south wind, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

I have always looked upon the horse as a magical creature, Intelligent, beautiful, and brave. Deep in the universe of my mind, I have watched the legend of its creation as it was raised from a handful of the south wind and watched it run free. It's hard for me to put into words but my encounters with horses have healed me in ways I can not put into words and that alone to me makes them true living creatures of legend.

Mark Humes, Self-generated, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

It took a long time in my life to realize my thoughts and feelings are self-generated. It was a responsibility I did not want to own after all life is so much easier when you can blame everyone and everything for the bad things in your life, Yet I found a liberation beyond measures once I accepted I am the source of all of my thoughts and actions. My successes and failures come from within not the outside world.

Mark Humes, Sky Slayer, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

I looked up into the sky and saw the vengeance I had loose upon the guilty as well as the weak. At that moment I knew this must not be. I reached deep into the well of souls unsheathed Sky Slayer from the void. Once more into the fray as my love for humanity surpasses my need for justice.

Mark Humes, Poseidon calling the vanguard, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Even gods have their limits and after centuries of neglect and disrespect, the mighty Poseidon called for his vanguard and send forth the spirits of deep to deliver a message that could not be denied.

Mark Humes, Thought augmented reality , 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

So much of what we call reality is colored and shaped by our thoughts it is a rarity that anyone just sees what exists. It is only when we realize we augment reality with our thoughts that we can begin to see reality as it is and know the truth.

Mark Humes,Cycle of aggression, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

It has occurred to me the cycle of aggression is inescapable as my life has always been one of defense. In aging, I try to suppress the beast yet as I look inside I know there is little that is human left none the less I treat that last burning ember of humanity as scared.

Mark Humes, Fooling no one, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Outraged by the mundane while seeking vengeance and claiming it as equality. The most skilled of predators have always been adept at posing as victims. It's an ongoing gambit in a power play for selfish ends hailed as the best interest of humanity. The sheep may follow the Judas goat, but the wolf says you are fooling no one.

Mark Humes, Terror in isolation, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

In isolation, one looks into themselves, and the outside world begins to slip away, and all that is left are memories. The mind runs simulations of what could have been different even though you know the moment will never come again. Now in a world, you never ask to be part of this is the terror of isolation,

Mark Humes,Ages pass bloodsport remains, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Thousands of years have passed, and in our arrogance, we hail our modern age one of enlightenment, Yet when looking back in time closely, we find bloodsport has been with us since the beginning. We can not become whole until we acknowledge all that we are, denial has never been the path forward.

Mark Humes,Corrosive vice, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Greed, passion, lust, and ego natural drives of the human condition until they become ends unto themselves. Vice has always been one path to power but at what cost? Corrosion of the soul as we fill the void of love with flesh. Dance with the fire if you dare but know when the ball ends you will always wear the mark of the flame.

Mark Humes, Broken timeline, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

It can be hard to tell facts from fiction. History, Myth, and even genetic memory play a role. In the end, the broken timeline of history is abstract the mind assembles or projects what it wants to see whether truth or fiction is added to the sum of our knowledge.

Mark Humes, Running from confusion, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

When faced with the unfamiliar, panic sets in soon to be followed by the confusion that creates fear you run as fast as you can failing to understand you can not attempt to outrun ignorants and expect wisdom to catch you.

Mark Humes, Glorified violence, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

All hail violence the true religion of man. It has been with us since the beginning, and we have been devout for when in the past ten thousand years has a day passed on this earth without violence.

Mark Humes, Humanity lost, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

In exile, the sensibilities of society slip away. No longer under the constant influence of others humanity slips away. You can only understand lost humanity when your will to survive out weights your compassion.

Mark Humes, The oldest sins in the newest ways, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Pride, vanity, lust, and barbarian oligarchy are hailed as attributes of the modern luminaries, but the exchange of social liberties embracing vice in place of actual freedom is not a new idea. It has been repackaged and repurposed in recent times, but it still amounts to the oldest sins in the newest ways.

Mark Humes,Folly, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Apathy, nihilism, and the ego of modern science lead to absolute folly. In the pursuit of power and glory, the world is left in ruins leaving only the darkest souls behind to rule over it.

Mark Humes, Genki, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

This work of art came to me as a challenge. Presented with an image of a very disturbing fetish known as Genki and ask if I could tastefully offer this subject matter. I excepted this challenge and produced an illustration in an abstract that captures the essence of the moment while keeping it in the realm of good taste. As an artist, It is my craft to find the beauty in any vision and bring it to the surface.

Mark Humes, Though she be but little, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

"Though she be but little, she is fierce." a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream and the subject of this depiction. We have all encountered small yet powerful women in our lifetimes. Me being an artist I see everyone and everything in an augmented reality that I attempt to make manifest, and in this instance, the moral of the story is this any woman no matter how small in size is a force of nature and more than you may see.

Mark Humes, Your approval is not required, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

No matter her features, size, or tone of skin she has a right to exist and live her life as she will. Your approval is not required.

Mark Humes, Love in the abstract, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Love is abstract. There is no one single formula to explain it yet like abstract art beauty comes from the chaos and becomes a part of us forever.

Mark Humes, Oddities meet, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

A strange mix of fear and curiosity fills the air when oddities meet. The unknown will always exist and your personal gaps in knowledge may be greater than you believe but know fear and wonder is the right response when you encounter things outside of your understanding.

Mark Humes, River of Kappa , 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

I would say to you in wisdom always use caution when entering the domain of the river child as the water has always been an alien realm to men. Honor the water of Kappa or risk never leaving its depths.

Mark Humes, What the tiger saw, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

I looked back in time to explore what the tiger saw. The tiger watched the birth of humanity, The Bhagavad Gita unfold and the rise and fall of empires. It was then that I understood we are but children in their eyes.

Mark Humes, Humans call it sport, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Humans for all of our so-called civilization and advancements are still Violante and love blood-sport. Still, to this day people, chickens, dogs, and horses are fought for profit and for the entertainment of the crowd. How can we as a species ever become civilized when we worship violence.

Mark Humes, That which I may devour, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Its primal urges drive every creature on the planet. Eat, sleep and continue the bloodline. When faced with what we see in totality, We fear what we are and what we may do if we gave in to our true natures.

Mark Humes, Reflection in Eden 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

One last fleeting reflection in a piece of shining fruit was the last memory of the innocents of Eden as the snake beckoned her closer. Now the mystery still remains is defiance ever worth the cost?

Mark Humes,Cockfight, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

The Noble Peacock serves as our allegory for this depiction of what often ensues when two confidant and prideful males cross paths while seeking the affections of a possible female companion. It never ceases to amaze me that in an age where Humans view themselves as the superior life form of the planet that we still share so much behavior with the animal kingdom.

Mark Humes, As you argue politics, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

As you argue politics from your comfortable homes a man exists in your reality yet he is a world apart. You speak of a better country yet the man remains. You speak of past leaders' greatness yet the man remained. You speak out politicians should do something about the man yet do nothing yourself except running your mouth.No leader or party to date has cured the blight of the man so it might be time to stop arguing and starting taking some real action to help someone.

Mark Humes, The Titans Herald, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Beauty leads power to calm the mass's fear, as she hails the Dreadlord cometh to free hearts and minds. Fear not the Titans shadow as it is just a symbol of your liberation from conventional thinking.

Mark Humes, Obscurum per obscurius, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Late at night when I am alone, my mind attempts to bring the sum total of my knowledge into a single equation. The unknowable torture of an endless simulation of knowledge converges. Horrors are witnessed when elements of humanity and divinity meet yet this gained knowledge brings no reckoning. only the face of demon enigma.

Mark Humes, Her unknown saga , 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Every person has a story and many of them are epics, yet these are sagas that remain unknown. In a world bombarded by films, books, and news stories we forget many of our closest acquaintances may have lived some of the greatest stories never told. You will never know a person until you have heard their tail. Ask questions and listen as you may walk amongst heroes.

Mark Humes, Polyamorous, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

An unbroken circle in a life of discretion yet, in the end, has there ever been a reward for self-denial?

Mark Humes, Unseen observer, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Have you ever had the feeling you are being watched? Unseen observers are everywhere. Is it the cat, is it the rat or is it forces from a realm far beyond your understanding and perception?

Mark Humes, Why we ran from Earth, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

We as species pride ourselves on being the masters of this planet, taming it and shaping it to our will while ruling over the animal kingdom. Does this bring the question to mind of how we must look to an alien species? I would speculate we would appear much like monsters.

Mark Humes, The We Eternal, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

To embrace the infinite we must abandon the finite. The individual is small but we are eternal. The we of which I speak is no cabal of people but the universe inside each of us.

Mark Humes, Pursued by delusions, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

The mind begins to warp and bend reality when too much information is taken without proper discernment and a firm grasp on the reality of the present moment. Panic, fear, and paranoia take over as you run from monsters of your own creation. Never allow the outside world to drive you into a false reality they seek to control.

Swallowing the withered is a Digital abstract art illustration created by Mark Humes For The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018 ISBN-10: 1983802220

Mark Humes, Force of will, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

The only thing I have found close to magic in this world is a force of will. Thoughts projected out into the universe in their arcane shapes and forms made manifest by effort and concentration over time. A strong will has never been a secret.

Mark Humes, Mourning at times gate , 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Time is fleeting yet mourning can seem to be eternal as fond memories seem to be outside of times reach, I look at faded pictures and the hands of the clock counting the hours that have passed alone and hours left till we meet again on golden shores.

Mark Humes,Cold-blooded, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Seeing the truth of someone's soul often happens as spontaneously as looking at them with squinting eyes. We never want to believe what we just saw, but wisdom and experience prove these things to be true. It is best to always look past the surface of an infatuation, lest you be drawn in by the camouflage of a cold-blooded reptile.

Mark Humes, Rage changes everything, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

When filled with rage insanity is not far behind. Rage is the failure of logic and in all battles internal and external it is ice that wins wars, not fire.

Mark Humes, Proclivities, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

We all have our proclivities, whether our social sphere accepts them is always just a matter of time and place as for me I have always seen the world in an alien way leaving me as a stranger in a strange land who lives in the fold located between madness and the divine.

Mark Humes, Innocence for power, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

Innocence is the currency of the soul and the divine gift inborn to humanity but there exist those among us so driven by desire they would cast off the light to pursue power. Threefold the question is asked of body, blood, and soul but upon the final denial, there is only darkness and a void in our soul no conquest or achievement can ever fill.

Mark Humes,Duplicitous snake handler, 2018
20 x 30 x 1.5 inch (h x w x d)
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Edition of 10 print on canvas
This artwork was featured in The Book Of Lost Verses: Book 8. Published January 20, 2018

The world has a way of changing us if we seek to live in peace, We develop a sense of duplicity to keep from being a target and the dexterity of snake handler for the myriad of unpaid recruiters who believe we must serve their cause.