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Here is my recent painting of the Otway Basin, Australia, during the late Albian. It is the second of two artworks I created for Vera Korasidis and Barbara Wagstaff, at The University of Melbourne. They both took weeks to create, for this paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2489614?fbclid=IwY2xjawKRPbpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrSHpaVklhVnNjOGVLRVlxAR70NFx_Cd7x96VYZULSPsGbqjXloyQx83bBsY2CGbXtoPvaYP8Asmc3LRmC7A_aem_mY098CXYMG0h8LI8Ww2DxQ#abstract. Please enjoy the details, they required a lot of work!

"The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra.

A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino languages of Tagalog and Bisaya. Her Tiny Desk Contest-winning track, 'Bakunawa,' was inspired by the dragon-like serpent of Philippine mythology."

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976039/ruby-ibarra-npr-tiny-desk-contest-winner-bay-area

"The Temptation of Saint Anthony," Joos van Craesbeeck, c. 1650.

Van Craesbeeck (c. 1605/6 - c. 1660) was a baker as well as a painter, running a family bakery in present-day Belgium. Very little is known of his life, but this bizarre, surreal scene definitely shows the influence of Heironymus Bosch and others. The screaming head, spewing the evils and temptations, the evil thoughts emerging from the forehead, and the sea throwing up evils at his feet...wow!

Van Craesbeeck also is noted for his "tronies," or portraits depicting exaggerated expressions, tavern scenes, guardroom scenes, and "piskijken," or scenes of women visiting doctors and having their urine tested for pregnancy. That's a specific genre of painting!

From the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany.

A Flemish Baroque painting. The image is dominated by a huge screaming head, with figures streaming from its mouth, symbolizing various sins, and a strip of its forehead peeled back and revealing various evil thoughts. To the far right, Saint Anthony himself is shown sitting under a tree, clutching his scriptures, while a woman tempts him, and a roiling sea throws temptations at his feet.