I’m down to clown, baby. 🤡🖤
✨pt. 1✨
🖤 shot by the incredible @peggyshootsfilm
🖤 makeup by the sensational @downtoclownmakeup
🖤 nails by the iconic @fresh.claws
I’m down to clown, baby. 🤡🖤
✨pt. 1✨
🖤 shot by the incredible @peggyshootsfilm
🖤 makeup by the sensational @downtoclownmakeup
🖤 nails by the iconic @fresh.claws
I’m down to clown, baby. 🤡🖤
✨pt. 1✨
🖤 shot by the incredible @peggyshootsfilm
🖤 makeup by the sensational @downtoclownmakeup
🖤 nails by the iconic @fresh.claws
I’m down to clown, baby. 🤡🖤
✨pt. 1✨
🖤 shot by the incredible @peggyshootsfilm
🖤 makeup by the sensational @downtoclownmakeup
🖤 nails by the iconic @fresh.claws
I’m down to clown, baby. 🤡🖤
✨pt. 1✨
🖤 shot by the incredible @peggyshootsfilm
🖤 makeup by the sensational @downtoclownmakeup
🖤 nails by the iconic @fresh.claws
I’m down to clown, baby. 🤡🖤
✨pt. 1✨
🖤 shot by the incredible @peggyshootsfilm
🖤 makeup by the sensational @downtoclownmakeup
🖤 nails by the iconic @fresh.claws
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Got to hang out in Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom with some cool folks.
Directed by Alma Har’el.
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the night before the Emmys. a sweaty, but ultimately good, evening.👍🏻
yeehaw and whatnot
thanks for having me @variety ! (and thanks for coming along @therebeccaknox 🖤)
Hair and Makeup by my queen @blondiewoodbeauty 💋
Part One: Devotion
When I found @anetherealfire’s work, I was blown away by the beauty and detail and knew I wanted the opportunity to see myself in fine art. What was even more exciting is how encouraging Chris is to all his clients in helping them explore a narrative. I started to think about what story I’d want to tell about the journey of my life and how I could translate it into art.
Ultimately, I settled on my experience growing up deeply religious, battling intense mental illness, and the nonlinear journey of healing. I’m so excited to show you all the stunning pieces Chris created so stay tuned!
Devotion is about single-minded longing and submission. The comfort and safety in self abandonment. A desperation for hope and guidance that can easily be taken advantage of. When your eyes are fixed on heaven, what darkness escapes your notice?
From Chris:
“This artwork took 2 days to complete with over 40 classical elements combined together alongside digital painting to create the setting.
The final result is one of the most visually complex, and intense pieces I have created to date for my Storyteller Sessions and is something I am immensely proud of to have worked on ⚔️.
The story Shannon created and the themes we talked thru together are powerfully heavy topics, and I’m so thankful that she trusted me with this 🎨🖼️.
*No generative ai used in this artwork
Part One: Devotion
When I found @anetherealfire’s work, I was blown away by the beauty and detail and knew I wanted the opportunity to see myself in fine art. What was even more exciting is how encouraging Chris is to all his clients in helping them explore a narrative. I started to think about what story I’d want to tell about the journey of my life and how I could translate it into art.
Ultimately, I settled on my experience growing up deeply religious, battling intense mental illness, and the nonlinear journey of healing. I’m so excited to show you all the stunning pieces Chris created so stay tuned!
Devotion is about single-minded longing and submission. The comfort and safety in self abandonment. A desperation for hope and guidance that can easily be taken advantage of. When your eyes are fixed on heaven, what darkness escapes your notice?
From Chris:
“This artwork took 2 days to complete with over 40 classical elements combined together alongside digital painting to create the setting.
The final result is one of the most visually complex, and intense pieces I have created to date for my Storyteller Sessions and is something I am immensely proud of to have worked on ⚔️.
The story Shannon created and the themes we talked thru together are powerfully heavy topics, and I’m so thankful that she trusted me with this 🎨🖼️.
*No generative ai used in this artwork
Part One: Devotion
When I found @anetherealfire’s work, I was blown away by the beauty and detail and knew I wanted the opportunity to see myself in fine art. What was even more exciting is how encouraging Chris is to all his clients in helping them explore a narrative. I started to think about what story I’d want to tell about the journey of my life and how I could translate it into art.
Ultimately, I settled on my experience growing up deeply religious, battling intense mental illness, and the nonlinear journey of healing. I’m so excited to show you all the stunning pieces Chris created so stay tuned!
Devotion is about single-minded longing and submission. The comfort and safety in self abandonment. A desperation for hope and guidance that can easily be taken advantage of. When your eyes are fixed on heaven, what darkness escapes your notice?
From Chris:
“This artwork took 2 days to complete with over 40 classical elements combined together alongside digital painting to create the setting.
The final result is one of the most visually complex, and intense pieces I have created to date for my Storyteller Sessions and is something I am immensely proud of to have worked on ⚔️.
The story Shannon created and the themes we talked thru together are powerfully heavy topics, and I’m so thankful that she trusted me with this 🎨🖼️.
*No generative ai used in this artwork
Part One: Devotion
When I found @anetherealfire’s work, I was blown away by the beauty and detail and knew I wanted the opportunity to see myself in fine art. What was even more exciting is how encouraging Chris is to all his clients in helping them explore a narrative. I started to think about what story I’d want to tell about the journey of my life and how I could translate it into art.
Ultimately, I settled on my experience growing up deeply religious, battling intense mental illness, and the nonlinear journey of healing. I’m so excited to show you all the stunning pieces Chris created so stay tuned!
Devotion is about single-minded longing and submission. The comfort and safety in self abandonment. A desperation for hope and guidance that can easily be taken advantage of. When your eyes are fixed on heaven, what darkness escapes your notice?
From Chris:
“This artwork took 2 days to complete with over 40 classical elements combined together alongside digital painting to create the setting.
The final result is one of the most visually complex, and intense pieces I have created to date for my Storyteller Sessions and is something I am immensely proud of to have worked on ⚔️.
The story Shannon created and the themes we talked thru together are powerfully heavy topics, and I’m so thankful that she trusted me with this 🎨🖼️.
*No generative ai used in this artwork
Part One: Devotion
When I found @anetherealfire’s work, I was blown away by the beauty and detail and knew I wanted the opportunity to see myself in fine art. What was even more exciting is how encouraging Chris is to all his clients in helping them explore a narrative. I started to think about what story I’d want to tell about the journey of my life and how I could translate it into art.
Ultimately, I settled on my experience growing up deeply religious, battling intense mental illness, and the nonlinear journey of healing. I’m so excited to show you all the stunning pieces Chris created so stay tuned!
Devotion is about single-minded longing and submission. The comfort and safety in self abandonment. A desperation for hope and guidance that can easily be taken advantage of. When your eyes are fixed on heaven, what darkness escapes your notice?
From Chris:
“This artwork took 2 days to complete with over 40 classical elements combined together alongside digital painting to create the setting.
The final result is one of the most visually complex, and intense pieces I have created to date for my Storyteller Sessions and is something I am immensely proud of to have worked on ⚔️.
The story Shannon created and the themes we talked thru together are powerfully heavy topics, and I’m so thankful that she trusted me with this 🎨🖼️.
*No generative ai used in this artwork
Part One: Devotion
When I found @anetherealfire’s work, I was blown away by the beauty and detail and knew I wanted the opportunity to see myself in fine art. What was even more exciting is how encouraging Chris is to all his clients in helping them explore a narrative. I started to think about what story I’d want to tell about the journey of my life and how I could translate it into art.
Ultimately, I settled on my experience growing up deeply religious, battling intense mental illness, and the nonlinear journey of healing. I’m so excited to show you all the stunning pieces Chris created so stay tuned!
Devotion is about single-minded longing and submission. The comfort and safety in self abandonment. A desperation for hope and guidance that can easily be taken advantage of. When your eyes are fixed on heaven, what darkness escapes your notice?
From Chris:
“This artwork took 2 days to complete with over 40 classical elements combined together alongside digital painting to create the setting.
The final result is one of the most visually complex, and intense pieces I have created to date for my Storyteller Sessions and is something I am immensely proud of to have worked on ⚔️.
The story Shannon created and the themes we talked thru together are powerfully heavy topics, and I’m so thankful that she trusted me with this 🎨🖼️.
*No generative ai used in this artwork
Part Two: Torment When I was 16 I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. The gist of OCD is that the disorder attempts to protect you by filling your mind with deeply unsettling thoughts of things that disturb you and obsessively fixates on them in an attempt to out-think the fear. A person with OCD usually engages in certain behaviors that bring some relief to that visceral feeling of anxiety- that’s where the compulsions come in. The compulsions never work for long. The OCD mind is never at rest and never satisfied. And obsessive compulsive disorder hits you where it hurts. My religion was the foundation of my worldview and sense of self and I believed the scriptures wholeheartedly. So my OCD is fixated on moral perfection. My intrusive thoughts told me I was evil to the core and I believed it. After all, the scriptures say “the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.” Believing the worst things about yourself, confusing horrific thoughts and images with reality, doubting your sanity and the goodness of your intentions at every turn- it’s hell. And it was a cycle that kept me alone in darkness. No one could know what went on in my head. It was perverse. I was alone. I was damned. The human mind can only withstand so much torment. There’s a point after enough pain where exhaustion and defeat set in. Hopelessness is a temptress tugging on your sleeve. The fight against despair begins to feel fruitless. It was a hard time, but it wasn’t forever. It wasn’t the end, but it felt like it. From Chris: “With this piece, we get to see the true darkness of what happens behind scenes. The spirit world and the physical are intertwining, and we see the masters behind the priests and nuns. On the left, a Nun that was previously being knelt in front of by a priest, is now in turn kneeling before a red cloaked demon. Above, the priest is reading from the book of death and is being puppeted along with his servant by two creatures. The image mirrors “Devotion” in the placement of focal points and once again, all things are looking toward Shannon and pulling at her.”
Part Two: Torment When I was 16 I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. The gist of OCD is that the disorder attempts to protect you by filling your mind with deeply unsettling thoughts of things that disturb you and obsessively fixates on them in an attempt to out-think the fear. A person with OCD usually engages in certain behaviors that bring some relief to that visceral feeling of anxiety- that’s where the compulsions come in. The compulsions never work for long. The OCD mind is never at rest and never satisfied. And obsessive compulsive disorder hits you where it hurts. My religion was the foundation of my worldview and sense of self and I believed the scriptures wholeheartedly. So my OCD is fixated on moral perfection. My intrusive thoughts told me I was evil to the core and I believed it. After all, the scriptures say “the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.” Believing the worst things about yourself, confusing horrific thoughts and images with reality, doubting your sanity and the goodness of your intentions at every turn- it’s hell. And it was a cycle that kept me alone in darkness. No one could know what went on in my head. It was perverse. I was alone. I was damned. The human mind can only withstand so much torment. There’s a point after enough pain where exhaustion and defeat set in. Hopelessness is a temptress tugging on your sleeve. The fight against despair begins to feel fruitless. It was a hard time, but it wasn’t forever. It wasn’t the end, but it felt like it. From Chris: “With this piece, we get to see the true darkness of what happens behind scenes. The spirit world and the physical are intertwining, and we see the masters behind the priests and nuns. On the left, a Nun that was previously being knelt in front of by a priest, is now in turn kneeling before a red cloaked demon. Above, the priest is reading from the book of death and is being puppeted along with his servant by two creatures. The image mirrors “Devotion” in the placement of focal points and once again, all things are looking toward Shannon and pulling at her.”
