illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : some rats on an old stoop of la chaux-de-fonds

"Rats multiply and exterminate first a single city and then all mankind. Increased size and intelligence."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : view from the stained-glass window of a house in the rue jaquet-droz, la chaux-de-fonds

"Person gazes out window and finds city and world dark (or oddly changed) outside."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : giant monster walking in the foggy town of la chaux-de-fonds

"Anencephalous or brainless monster who survives and attains prodigious size."

H.P. Lovecraft

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : book cover of the book of mermaids

"Mermaid Legend - Encyc.Britt.XVI-40."

H.P. Lovecraft

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : trees in the fog, greenish colours

"Narrator walks along unfamiliar country road - comes to strange region of the unreal."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : a black cat on a chair

"The Cats of Ulthar - The cat is the soul of antique Ægyptus and bearer of tales from forgotten cities of Meroë and Ophir. He is the kin of the jungle’s lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language; but he is more ancient than the Sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten."

H.P. Lovecraft

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft, in the way of old photographies : young married couple smiling

"Daemons, when desiring an human form for evil puposes, take to themselves the bodies of hanged men."

H.P. Lovecraft

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : small creature under the moon

"Demophon shivered when the sun shone upon him. (Lover of darkness-ignorance.)"

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : ghost under the moon on an old bandstand of la chaux-de-fonds

"Enchanted garden where moon casts shadow of object or ghost invisible to the human eye."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : old door of la chaux-de-fonds

"Dr.Eben Spencer plot."

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Works inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book - Original version created for :

"L'Expo qui rend fou" (An Exhibition of Unspeakable Things)

A collective exhibition organised by Patrick J. Gyger and based on an original idea of Mix&Remix

Maison d'Ailleurs, Yverdon, Switzerland, 2007

Les Utopiales 2008, Nantes, France, 2008

Series later displayed at the solo exhibition :

"De Profundis"

Café A la Bossette, Lausanne, Switzerland, 06.2021

Galerie Univers, Lausanne, Switzerland, 09.2021





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