The Cosens

@defragmata.itch.io

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🌥the cosen family, plural system of artists & writers. (they/we) 🌃 kastel (she/they) | olivia, annis (she/her) | tove, franz, bruno, kas/kaspar, simcha (he/him), etc. 🌐: defragmata.straw.page (WIP) ☕: https://ko-fi.com/defragmata 🔞18+, 🚫GenAI #cosenart

a cake frosting job listing that reads "core values and compentencies: servant's heart"
a wax seal that ripped into two parts, the rim has fallen out into a ripped blob, the actual design is glued onto the stamphead.
a monochrome digital painting of a serene, bug eyed woman's face, emerging from a surreal, veiny mass as she smiles at the viewer.
an anime girl with choppy purple hair, a bright pink and green bonnet, and sickly yellowed skin. she serenely smiles as her chest bursts into purples and pinks.
A brown lizard clinging to the toe of our fuzzy pink slipper.
A phone video of a rollator user, demonstrating the limits and physical exertion of using a cheap rollator to go outside on a quick walk to a park, and the inaccessibility that comes from not having an all-terrain mobility aid. In a short amount of time, the rollator gets caught on uneven ground and grass multiple times in only the first several minutes of the walk, and often tips over forward. It has to be picked up and moved at one point after getting caught, which is a physical health hazard.
A slightly abstract and shapely portrait of a man in his 30s, drawn in a palette of brown, orange, and goldenrod on a cream background. He has slightly wavy, black hair in a side swept bang. He wears chunky, rectangular glasses and a stylized aviator jacket. He has a playful, smirking expression as he looks to his right and leans on his elbow.
An autoprocessed phone photo, it has a forced AI smoothing filter on top that makes everything pixelated, muddy, and misshapen.
A great blue heron standing in a shallow, vegetative lakebed.
A colorful and slightly abstracted portrait depicting a 30 something year old man, drawn in a palette of only brown, orange, and gold. He has short, dark wavy hair with a half bang, rectangular glasses, a sharp nose and jaw, and a playful smirk as he looks to his right. He's wearing a cropped bomber jacket as he leans a bit on his right arm.
a sheet of offwhite muslin fabric in an embroidery hoop, photographed at night on top of a bush. it has an ink illustration on half the muslin, depicting intricate, abstract patterns like butterfly and moth wing patterns, lace, stars, glyphs that resemble language, birds, and spots. sewn onto it are clusters of beads of different sizes and colors, small gold seed beads, rows of red and black cylinder beads. in the middle is a white bow with a single red string running taut under it, and to the edges of the hoop are more white ribbons that are fixed in clusters by red thread, as their tails free flow off the sides of the canvas.
A WIP physical piece consisting of blue, pink, purple, pearly pastel palleted wax seals pressed onto unsewn pieces of textured and puckered white tulle
The cover of S1M*, also known as "Simulacra Magazine", by UFOshock and whiterabbit. The cover is painted by UFOshock, depicting a blue haired anime girl smiling mouth open on a black background, as she stares at the viewer and has strands of hair whirling around her. She is rendered in a way that reminds one of a plastic anime figure, and has a nondescript shirtless body that is half overtaken by red, pixelated, gored flesh going from her chest to up the right side of her face. Above her is the magazines logo, "S1M*" in large white & purple bordered squared pixel font.
A photograph of a wax sculpture on canvas, photographed and bordered by a black and shiny rose pattern embossed piece of fabric. The sculpture is of a feminine, chibi-like anime styled person, laying splayed weakly on the ground with legs propped up and their head tilted to the right side. They have two long twin tails of varying lengths that frame their body. The figure is made of white tealight wax with light and dark blues mixed in and some glitter. Their body lacks much detail outside of visible stump legs attached to a short torso, vague lumps of cleavage, indeterminate arms that meld into the wax of their hair and leave strings bridging them to the hair and shoulders, and a thin stringy neck that attaches to their round face, surrounded by sharp, shapely bits of anime hair and bangs that frame a single eye peeking out from their otherwise blank and featureless face. The canvas they lay on consists of puddles of sealing wax poured on and shapes that were made by pouring seal wax into moulds. There are a variety of shapes, butterflies, hearts, stars, flowers, and a large golden key. Top right of the canvas is covered in pastel white, pink, purple, and blue waxes, and transitions into dark metallic browns, golds, purples, and coppers. The poem presented on the top of the image reads in pixelated text: "I am no longer a creature of sentiment Once the wax machine soothes reality in paraffin layers Effigies on a belt replacing a face of glory days Hundred and another cast in the moulds of sad sad innards Wax will refill the holes in all the right ways And it will reprint and reprint and reprint until perfect and painless."