Ween - forest spirit James Flames

James Flames

closeness and intimacy

The crow seizing the pocket watch is my representation of innocence lost

These are also printed on a fancy Arches hand-torn deckled edge cotton paper

The whale and birds in this print are likely a few days behind them

Ween - forest spirit James FlamesI was definitely thinking about the forest spirit in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke for this one. Channeling some of the energy from that creature and applying it to a band hailing from Bucks County who, to this day, remains a mysterious musical enigma made sense in my brain. The face is a blend of deer goat and greater kudu. The birds that flank the creature left and right are meant to abstractly represent the idea of duality that exists between