Matt Kish

art, illustration, photography, comics

“It might be said that boxing is primarily about maintaining a body capable of entering combat against other well-conditioned bodies. Not the public spectacle, the fight itself, but the rigorous training period leading up to it demands the most discipline, and is believed to be the chief cause of the boxer’s physical and mental infirmities. (As a boxer ages his sparring partners get younger, the game itself gets more desperate).

“The artist senses some kinship, however oblique and one-sided, with the professional boxer in this matter of training. This fanatic subordination of the self in terms of a wished-for destiny…

“To not only accept but to actively invite what most sane creatures avoid - pain, humiliation, loss, chaos - is to experience the present moment as already, in a sense, past.Here and now are but part of the design of there and then: pain now but control, and therefore, triumph, later.”

—Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing


The parallels between this passage and my experiences illustrating every page of Moby-Dick are terrifying and accurate.

nudewave:

ttyl

I know that reblogging this is completely self-involved and self indulgent, but seeing this makes me very happy. So I’m gonna do it anyway.

nudewave:

ttyl

I know that reblogging this is completely self-involved and self indulgent, but seeing this makes me very happy. So I’m gonna do it anyway.

brudesworld:

Parsifal by Willy Pogany, 1912.

I would pay dearly for a high-end reprint of this brilliant and gorgeous book.

brudesworld:

Parsifal by Willy Pogany, 1912.

I would pay dearly for a high-end reprint of this brilliant and gorgeous book.

This is absolutely delightful!

This is absolutely delightful!

(Source: danforth, via bazookafairy)

brudesworld:

“He Blew Three Deadly Notes,” from The Boy’s King Arthur (1922) by N.C. Wyeth

This remains one of my favorite pieces of art. Ever. It has great personal significance to me, and I find it deeply moving, even all these years later.

brudesworld:

“He Blew Three Deadly Notes, from The Boy’s King Arthur (1922) by N.C. Wyeth

This remains one of my favorite pieces of art. Ever. It has great personal significance to me, and I find it deeply moving, even all these years later.

SERVANTS OF A HIGHER POWER11.75 inches by 9 inchesink and marker on watercolor paperApril 10, 2013
(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

SERVANTS OF A HIGHER POWER

11.75 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 10, 2013

(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

PALACE GATES11.75 inches by 9 inchesink and marker on watercolor paperApril 10, 2013
(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

PALACE GATES

11.75 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 10, 2013

(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

CIPHER11.75 inches by 9 inchesink and marker on watercolor paperApril 8, 2013
(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

CIPHER

11.75 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 8, 2013

(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

A REMARKABLE MAN11.75 inches by 9 inchesink and marker on watercolor paperApril 8, 2013
(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

A REMARKABLE MAN

11.75 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 8, 2013

(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

THE NIGHTMARE OF MY CHOICE11.75 inches by 9 inchesink and marker on watercolor paperApril 8, 2013
(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

THE NIGHTMARE OF MY CHOICE

11.75 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 8, 2013

(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

NEW FRONTIERS IN MURDER11.75 inches by 9 inchesink and marker on watercolor paperApril 6, 2013
(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)

NEW FRONTIERS IN MURDER

11.75 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 6, 2013

(Working on some kind of catharsis after the brutality of almost a year spent with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This is purgation.)