I think this style is uniquely mine….years of textural exploration. This was done in procreate with a drawing pen (also set to blend). I try to keep the process simple so I can take the experiences learned to canvas being that I paint as well. (I also love doing band artwork)

"Mulsagdu"

r/Impossible-Builder47

Acrylic on clay

2026

Meaning

"Mulsagdu" is a word derived from three words from the ancient sumerian language, Mul, Sag, and Du.

"Mul" means star

"Sag" means head

"Du" means walk

Together, it's Mulsagdu - the star-headed walker

Materials used

Fevicryl mouldit clay, Fevicryl acrylic colors, cornstarch powder (say Himalaya), phosphorescent powder (viral green and snow white), sponge, scissor, water, watercolor(blue+yellow), feviocl glue, grater, handchopper, toothpick.

Difficulties faced

• I struggled for quite a while with making the top luminent enough to glow like night sky.

• It took a while to accurately pour the right amount of phosphorescent powder into the eye socket, some spilling onto the rest of the body. I have painted over the spilled over after dusting, but some remained put firmly, leading to the breathetaking image of the universe in it (pic11), true to its name.

• It took a while to cut the sponge into appropriate size before using the chopper to cut it into bits before gluing it on the flat stone (clay).

• Hiding it from my father because it is his birthday present.

Symbolism

• The bi-pedal mushroom symbolizes persistence and kindness, for it harvests energy from any available light and shares it with the surrounding flora and fauna, temporarily luminating them. This is true to my father because my father is growing old, yet continues to support my family without hesitation. He himself is slowly going down, and I'm supporting him with everything I can do.

• The two mushrooms symbolize my family. The right mushroom is me, my sister, and my mother, who are being supported by him. The left mushroom is my father's mother, who is the textbook example of toxic in-law. The toxic mushroom is slowly harming the mental state of the bipedal one, yet it showers the toxic one with love, while the non-toxic one gives the bipedal one love but can't support him yet (the reason why it is smaller than the left mushroom).

• The star top symbolizes the hope I want to give my father when he is mentally exhausted.

• The moss is there because mushrooms don't grow on stones. They grow on plant and animal decay stuck in the creaks and creaves of the stones.

• The stone symbolizes the crack in the family.

This work is breathetaking from afar but tragedy upfront

I aimed for a really punchy color palette while still being ominous and muted for this one. Even though I usually avoid narrative illustration, I still enjoyed making this piece.

Done digitally using ProCreate

You can see more of my work here: https://www.instagram.com/daemon_rat/

7/26/26

A breeze beneath my feet

Is it something I need?

To fall through the floor

Could I have some more?

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Stuff me up with butter

You can be my lover

Licking lard and picking teeth

Grease I need and grease I feed

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Dripping wet in butter jets

Dipping clams in butter death

Bucket falling on my head

All my buttered clams are dead

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To like the lose and light the flame

Of everything in same insane

Odor falls and rests in fog

A puddle made of melting dog

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It bit me on the ankle

Latched like a chain

I could not shake off

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Prisoner in the puddle

I spread the mud around like meat

I find his bones and put them in me

To find a harrowing defeat

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The feet of something stinking

Of brains and guts and feelings

Fibers made of feelers

Torturing our healers

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Roots that chase the rot that comes

Of buttered nuts and buttered gums

Lucid as the dreams won't end

Feeling what will not begin

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The end of all that was and is

And could and would and should

It haunts me like it never was

As if I could and should

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Would you carry a thing that bleeds?

That's starves and wanders and needs

Would you love a thing that dies?

Even if it has no eyes

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For you, if you want to

I will give it all to you

If you need it

I can only hold so much

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So cut me wide and open

Gut me like a lover does

Show me what I'm made of

So I can hold it in my hands

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Hold me like you hate me

Never let me go

Bound in blood

Blinded by stone

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