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Jesse Miksic
@hybrid-gesture.bsky.social
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Poetry … Traditional Art (pencil ink watercolor) … Philosophy … Contributor, participant, pop culture enthusiast, nerd … Always searching
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WHAT’S DONE

Do you see my beacon? Do you see the tower, lit and smoking like tallow? Now the world will know…

They will know the tower’s authority is not absolute.

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#sketchbook #drawing #fantasyArt #illustration #bskyArt
A drawing in a sketchbook, showing a muscular figure from behind, standing anchored to the ground, with his left hand extended and resting on a massive sword. The figure is armored around the shoulders and hands, and he has a curious design on his back with a circle wrapping around two eyes. In the distance, a tower can be seen, with fire and smoke issuing from the top.
February 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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@julianastratton.bsky.social is the only one in the IL senate race who has said she would not vote for Schumer as leader. www.foxnews.com/politics/ill...
Illinois Dem Senate candidates split on backing Schumer as leader
Growing Democratic revolt against Schumer emerges as Illinois Senate hopefuls split on leadership support during primary debate ahead of 2026 election.
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February 16, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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THE SECRET INGREDIENT

I do not need your wetware, your neural extensions, your response curves.

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#drawing #sketchbook #illustration #cyberpunk #SciFi #bskyArt
A drawing in pencil, showing a close-up view of a face in profile, hidden behind a raised collar below the cheek. The drawing is focused on the eye, the ear, and the hairline. Around the character’s temple, there is an abstract pattern of circles drawn with technical precision, with a triangle of straight lines connecting them.
February 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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SHADOW BODY MIRROR WORLD

“When I was lost in the light, I made my own dark, and it walked with me — my ageless shadow, my loyal replica.”

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#sketchbook #drawing #fantasyArt #pencilArt #characterDesign #illustration #traditionalArt #bskyArt
A pencil drawing in a sketchbook, showing an old man, stooped forward and holding something in a hand held out before him. He is bald with a long and important white beard, and he is shirtless. His face has a tranquil expression. Abstract designs radiate out from his head and curve around in the space above him. The object in his hand appears to be a small hand mirror suspended from a chain.
February 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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She didn’t need to study the spell in a grimoire, or learn it from a back-alley conjurer… she had it in herself already, and she found it easily enough.

#drawing #penAndInk #illustration #fantasyArt #bskyArt
A drawing in a sketchbook in black ink, showing a landscape with a silhouette of a tower and a line of trees in the distance. There is a line of fence posts leading into the background. In the foreground, there is a stream, with two leafless trees on the bank. Two people in silhouette are leaning over the stream, looking at something in the water. The sun is low over the horizon.
February 7, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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▫️ unforgotten ▫️
images from four small stones - appearing like glimpses of lost landscapes
February 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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HOW TO BE A DESTINATION

Hey, you, doing that thing you are doing! Do you remember a moment ago, when you were doing a different thing? Pausing briefly for a breath, perhaps, or walking through an already-open door?

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#drawing #sketchbook #penAndInk #bskyArt
A drawing in pen, showing two figures: one sitting in the foreground, and one seeming to leap wildly through the air behind the first. They are rendered in straight, angular lines that come together like puzzle pieces. Their figures are featureless, except for the web of lines describing their volume and edges.
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Thanks to Mr Effervescent... @hool415.bsky.social for hosting this weeks #promptcombo #tracks
Tracks Your tracks were once loam, holding the script of our hooves. Now they are scars you stitch in stone, straight and shining. We gather at their edges, reading the wound, our flanks twitching, our dark eyes full of the old paths.
February 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Ok, about to start this 7-hour overnight flight. Sleep? Or spend the entire flight watching the entire John Wick series?

#choices
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Heading out tomorrow to London, en route to Brussels. First time in Europe in a while!

#FOSDEM2026 here I come!

#FOSS
January 29, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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LUMINOUS PENITENCE

““Look at me! Clay in the shape of stillness, reverence formed from plaster by God’s hands.”

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#drawing #sketchbook #traditionalArt
A drawing in a sketchbook, showing a figure from the side, face turned upwards as if in reverence. He sports a vaguely religious cloak and a pile of curly black hair. Behind him there appears a loose background of stone walls, arched windows, and shapes of stone and water.
January 27, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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My family went to Pizza Ranch today, ate some pizza, and played some video games in their sizable arcade. Games were pretty cheap!

While there, I observed something I have never seen before.

(1/5)
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Those of us who were allowed to live until now with mostly whole hearts are having them broken.
January 25, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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#Poetryhelps -- Military Grade Heart
Military Grade Heart It’s useful to have. Like this: Withstand. Hold fast. Sway. Stay. And so I think. Therefore I tree, I upside-down, I rain, I call forth numbers, words. Highly going along. Sky. Ground.
January 25, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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I was never sure why I was so attracted to watercolor, as opposed to oil, acrylic, pastel, etc

Tonight I saw this video on Edmund Dulac, and I thought, “Ah, yes. This is why.”

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#fantasyArt #inspiration #watercolor #bskyArt
THE FANTASY ART OF EDMUND DULAC
A look at the work of one of the Golden Age's greatest illustrators, and the evolution of his stylistic approach during his lifetime. And an eagle-eyed viewe...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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Wrote a brief tribute to the Trocadero, iconic Philly punk venue and one of my personal sacred sites.

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#philadelphia #philly #punk #blog
The Trocadero Theater - Jesse Miksic // Hybrid Gesture
For most of my formative years, I only knew the whole garden called Philadelphia by one single flower: the block of Arch Street between 10th and 11th. This w...
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January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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🖼️ Midori Yamada #Caturday
Wooded scene, cat amongst trees, sun between trees, illustration.
January 17, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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#notesArt
A small, tall but narrow wooden house sits at the end of a pier. The house is brown, about two stories, with a tall pointed roof, a red door, and a window with a red shutter. It has a weathered look to it. It's a gray day, with fog all around. The pilings holding up the pier disappear into the fog. Moss hangs from the underside of the pier. The house has a tall pipelike chimney with white smoke coming out of it. On the right side of the house is a glowing white light hanging from a bar. Sitting at the very end of the pier, looking out over the unseen water, is a black cat. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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well, my dears, here we are: the OFFICIAL launch date for ON BEING HALF-IMAGINARY! in addition to this pinned announcement, with link, i’ll be cycling through my silly promo graphics over the next few weeks/months to keep my toes in the stream.

order here:

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On Being Half-Imaginary
An experimental, hybrid exploration of personal archives, memory, identity and time (travel), On Being Half-Imaginary mixes memoir with media studies to present a nonlinear tale of becoming oneself. W...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Spent my morning playing around a bit with some album cover design! Silly yes. Fun, also yea. These'd pop off the shelf yea? (i mean in a cool way) - thinking epic-folk/black synth vibes, with some obvious dashes of goth/postpunk

So you know, if you have a musical project, looking for work
fake album cover showing a boar bleeding onto a root fake album cover of a castle on a cliff fake album cover of a skull on a mountain with a burning banner
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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“This is the sword of the Order. It has no patience for petty violence, no appetite for blood and flesh.”

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#sketchbook #drawing #fantasyArt #bskyArt
A pencil drawing in a sketchbook, showing a woman in a flowing garment, lunging forward with a sword held in a reverse grip. She has shoulder-length hair and vaguely elven ears. Her expression is deadly serious.
January 16, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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I have a burning question: do neurologists and brain scientists have a clearer view of human cognition than the rest of us?

Like, do they have a pretty reliable scale of cognitive function that bypasses the self-assessment biases and anxieties that the rest of us are constantly struggling with?
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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I’ve done a stack of watercolors that I’m very dissatisfied with recently. Hopefully this motivates me to keep trying til I pop one out that I like.
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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For the sake of my visual art practice, I need to practice simplification. When I try to simplify (especially scenes from imagination), my subjects end up looking childish.

I think the solution is to practice simplification from life, rather than imagination.
January 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM