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Lara Whatley
@whatleyswildlife

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Wouldn’t want to damage the kraken population numbers. This is a piece I sculpted, painted, and finished a few years back. I pulled him out for a photoshoot for the book. He lives in a shell I brought back from beach combing on Sanibel. I honestly do have a pretty extensive collection of beach finds, and sometimes I like to make them a little more exciting… haha. Most of my art plays into this idea: that something unusual is lurking just out of reach, if only we look; if only we turn over one more shell. It’s like an ache, a longing for something more. A yearning for experience of a world more than atoms and determinism. For wild open beaches, coves that whisper, and stormy seas that once bore aloft tall ships bringing back tales of monsters of the deep. That ache manifests itself in my art, in these little evidences of something more, something lost, something that may yet be found again. . . . . . . . #kraken #cthulu #fyp #sculpt #creature #beachcombing #sfx #propmaker #halloween #creepy #creepyart #spooky #curiosity #explore #explorepage #propmaking #fx #sculpting #clay #clayart #artdoll #magizoology #darkacademia #folklore #fantasyart #creaturedesign #artistsoninstagram #art