UNICORNS

Unicorn35, kyanite, serpentine, and pencil on paper, 12×18 inches, 2024

At the Beginning

is a night mare

a white worst

who cracks chance

Torny

Corny

Horny

Unicorn37, kyanite, jadeite, and pencil on paper, 12×18 inches, 2024

At the beginning

is a hurt

that tries

again

At the beginning

is an again

Forever, whatever.

An again

A new again

A first again

At the beginning

is an again

Terrible

Irascible

Irresponsible

Terrifying

Determined

to blast

all stupidities

To shake

all corpses

To fuck

prejudices

To trailblaze

Love.

Unicorn33, kyanite, garnet, hematite, black tourmaline, and pencil on paper, 12×18 inches, 2024

“There are in India certain wild asses which are as large as horses, and larger. Their bodies are white, their heads dark red, and their eyes dark blue. They have a horn on the forehead which is about a foot and a half in length. The dust filed from this horn is administered in a potion as a protection against deadly drugs(…) The animal is exceedingly swift and powerful, so that no creature, neither the horse nor any other, can overtake it.”

Ctesias, 4th century B.C.

Unicorn28, kyanite, garnet, hematite, black tourmaline, and pencil on paper, 12×18 inches, 2024

“Among the Mountains of the Moon in High Ethiopia, there is found a beast called the unicorn which is as large as a colt of two years and of the same general shape as one(…) His horn is used against poison, and people say that the other animals wait until this one comes and dips its horn in the water before they will drink. It is such a cleaver beast and so swift that there is no way of killing it.”

Marmol Caravaial, Description General de Africa, 1573

Unicorn38, kyanite, rhodonite, and pencil on paper, 12×18 inches, 2024

“Noble and powerful against all poisonous and pestilential diseases is the unicorn’s horn. Kings and princes and men of wealth all own it, and they should preserve it for the use of future generations.”

Palmarius Constantius, De Peste, 1610