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 : 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."

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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."

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

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

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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 : 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 : 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 : aerial view of a man lying on the floor

"Horror story - Man dreams of falling - found on floor mangled as tho' from falling from a vast height."

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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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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : man flying in an aerial view of la chaux-de-fonds under the snow

"Dream of flying over city.(Celephais)"

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : cyprian forras, lost source somewhere in hungary

"Sounds - possibly musical - heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : reflection of a man in an old ornamented mirror

"Fear of mirrors - memory of dream in which scene is altered and climax is hideous surprise at seeing oneself in the water or a mirror. (Idendity?)(Outsider?)"

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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 : dark cottage surrounded by pine trees

"Salem story - the cottage of an aged witch - wherein after her death are found sundry terrible things."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : black manor of the rue des tourelles in la chaux-de-fonds, light at the window of the turret

"Something seen at oriel window of forbidden room in ancient manor house."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : a cut hand on the ground of the rue des granges in la chaux-de-fonds

"Hideous secret assemblage at night in antique alley - disperse furtively one by one - one seen to drop something - a human hand -"

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : winged creature in misty mountains

"Strange man seen in lonely montain place talking with great winged thing which flies away as others approach."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : three parts of a celtic figure representing a hideous cat with tentacular tongue

"Little green Celtic figures dug up in ancient Irish bog."

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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."

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illustration inspired by h.p. lovecraft : shadow on the manor of the rue jaquet-droz in la chaux-de-fonds

"Black winged thing flies into one's house at night. Cannot be found or identified - but subtle developments ensue."

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


"An Exhibition of Unspeakable Things" (La Maison d'Ailleurs, Yverdon, Switzerland, 2007 - Les Utopiales, Nantes, France, 2008 - organised by Patrick J. Gyger and based on an original idea of Mix&Remix)

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