e. m. jensen

@fathomlessbox.art

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he/him | illustrator-printmaker | books, cooking, coffee, tea, cats

A screenshot of text. “The E8000ECC had passed all the necessary tests for production in the United Kingdom and was on its way to be produced in the United States of America. Then Governor of California Ronald Reagan sent a cargo plane to have three E8000ECCs moved to California in support of his Clean Air legislation.”
Zoom in on the little characters from the Night in the Woods videogame.
Underside of a large concrete bridge with brown paint swatches covering graffiti and then covered in newer bright, fluorescent neon marker drawings. Bugs and suns and clouds and little cats and other little guys.
Painting of an elderly, long-bearded man in full profile, with wide-brim hat and blue-black cloak, strides with long stave in hand, two brown wolves at his heels, against a grimy white background, under a small crescent moon. The marks appear chalky or dry brushed, the palette deep blues and burnt sienna browns.
In a dry, umber winter wood, a great blue heron stands elegantly aside a stream bank of stones, its head in profile on a sinuous neck.
When I took it out of the box, I knew it was mine. Any self-respecting vampire would adore it. Throw it on, clasp it at the neck, draw up the hood, and slip out of the house into the chill darkness. The deep generous folds of wool sway beautifully as you walk. You fall in love with your own shadow moving under the streetlamp. It is luxuriously long, heavy. Yet it's so simple-the essence of style. It enfolds you, conceals you, protects you. It evokes the romance of times past, and yet it is timeless. Vampires will undoubtedly be placing orders, specifying: "Do not deliver until after dark." Anne Rice is the author of the bestselling Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, and a new novel, Belinda.
Catalogue illustration of a grey wool hooded cape from the 1987 Banana Republic Catalog. “It was a classic case of demand exceeding supply for Republic citizens who sought but were denied our surplus French Naval Cape last winter. Happily, your impassioned letters-fraught with reports of "thwarted purchase lust," "daggers of uncloaked depression," and "frustrated fantasies of whirling about town"-touched our sensibilities, and so we have cut a cloak as devilishly dashing as the soigné surplus original. From Sweden came the cloth: an exceedingly dense, military-grade wool woven to withstand Arctic winters. In styling. we honored the French forebear, with its dramatic hood and draft-resisting armholes. In perpetually neutral gray-green, the Cape of Two Countries is a sweeping response both to winter's demands and to its own loyalists.”
Aluminum, resin, and teeth dummy head for studying dentistry. The majority is a featureless silvery head, while below the nose, bare metal and plastic jaws gape open. These are filled with real extracted teeth to practice upon.
Renaissance Faire lane where a puppet man is dressed in gold, black and red, surrounded by an entire Venetian street built inside a gondola at his waist. His conical hat is extremely tall and skinny. Actor: Gabriel Quirk.
Orange fancy cat face in soft focus and poorly layered with images of flames and a touchscreen power button.
Pink blossoms hang before the Tidal Basin in DC.
Maquette of a sitting FDR and his Scottie dog Fala, with a full size bronze sculpture at his memorial in the background, on a sunny spring day in DC. It shows him in his wheelchair and leg braces as a result of Polio, draped in a large cape.
FDR monument plaque: “MEN AND NATURE MUST WORK HAND IN HAND. THE THROWING OUT OF BALANCE OF THE RESOURCES OF NATURE THROWS OUT OF BALANCE ALSO THE LIVES OF MEN”
Ghost boy, live boy, glowing pear, long orange dragon with white fur.
Maryland flag where the checks are rainbows and the crosses are a trans and an intersex palette.
A vintage-cartoon-styled anthropomorphic Molotov cocktail character with wick alight, strides across a Trans flag rondel. The banners across the image read “no gods, no masters and no fucking kings” in serifed capital tattoo style lettering.
Triangular white sign with adult and child figures that have clay alien heads glued over the figures heads, and a ufo stenciled on the top.
Homemade sign with a crossed out phone saying “no cell phones” and a post-it note reading “no patriarchy” below.
Small hole in tree roots, surrounded by snow.
Snegurochka
The dilute grey tortie cat sprawls across the begrudging flame point because it’s cold and she will not be denied cuddles.
Crackled, frosty surface of a frozen creek.
Watercolor of a long dragon with white fur and orange skin wound amongst trees, as a young boy and his ghost cradle a glowing pear.
An opossum cavorts among their treasures (recycling bin empties). Truly living the high life.
A deep pan full of bright red burbling tomato sauce surrounding lamb & beef potato pockets.
Translucent smoky grey V for Vendetta mask with blue stitched X eyes on one side, pink on the other. Likewise stitched across the mouth in blue and pink. It’s hung on a black crosswalk/signal pole at a street corner.
Browned butternut squash with serrano mac and cheese in a cast iron skillet, just out from the oven.
Goofy car manual illustration of two children fighting over who gets to drive the car.
Eink Sketchbook drawings of a rat conductor and a frightened Beholder.