Rebecca Papillon

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The Otherworldly Journal

Why a Monthly Mail Art Subscription Is One of the Last Genuinely Joyful Things You Can Put in Your Diary - Rebecca Papillon

Why a Monthly Mail Art Subscription Is One of t...

Someone told me something recently that I have not been able to stop thinking about. We were standing in VRChat when he said it. Fifteen dollars for that kind of...

Why a Monthly Mail Art Subscription Is One of t...

Someone told me something recently that I have not been able to stop thinking about. We were standing in VRChat when he said it. Fifteen dollars for that kind of...

Color Is a Language. Here Is What It Is Saying. - Rebecca Papillon

Color Is a Language. Here Is What It Is Saying.

Color is not decoration. It is information. Your nervous system has been reading it since before you had words for any of it. Scientists have documented this, and three thousand...

Color Is a Language. Here Is What It Is Saying.

Color is not decoration. It is information. Your nervous system has been reading it since before you had words for any of it. Scientists have documented this, and three thousand...

The Cat Has Always Known Something We Don’t (International Cat Day) - Rebecca Papillon

The Cat Has Always Known Something We Don’t (In...

There is a specific quality to the way a cat looks at something you cannot see. Not at nothing. At something. Every culture that has spent significant time with cats...

The Cat Has Always Known Something We Don’t (In...

There is a specific quality to the way a cat looks at something you cannot see. Not at nothing. At something. Every culture that has spent significant time with cats...

What It Means to Start in Complete Darkness ✨ - Rebecca Papillon

What It Means to Start in Complete Darkness ✨

Every canvas in Animarii: Unzipped begins the same way. I black it out completely. Not a toned ground, not a dark underpainting. Black. Total. There is a practical reason for...

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What It Means to Start in Complete Darkness ✨

Every canvas in Animarii: Unzipped begins the same way. I black it out completely. Not a toned ground, not a dark underpainting. Black. Total. There is a practical reason for...

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Disclosure Day: If Something Wanted to Reach Us, It Would Come as an Animal 🛸 - Rebecca Papillon

Disclosure Day: If Something Wanted to Reach Us...

The beings in Disclosure Day chose to appear as specific animals. A stag. A fox. A butterfly. Not randomly. Not arbitrarily. Here is why those choices are older and deeper...

Disclosure Day: If Something Wanted to Reach Us...

The beings in Disclosure Day chose to appear as specific animals. A stag. A fox. A butterfly. Not randomly. Not arbitrarily. Here is why those choices are older and deeper...

Why Animals Have Always Been How Humans Explain the Unexplainable 🦋 - Rebecca Papillon

Why Animals Have Always Been How Humans Explain...

Before we had language sophisticated enough to describe what we were trying to understand, we had animals. The oldest cave paintings are not landscapes. They are not abstract marks. They...

Why Animals Have Always Been How Humans Explain...

Before we had language sophisticated enough to describe what we were trying to understand, we had animals. The oldest cave paintings are not landscapes. They are not abstract marks. They...