Several of the delightful and desiccated specimens featured in the Merrylin Cryptid Museum, an online menagerie fantastique meant to blur the line between reality and unknown.
“You have stumbled upon the Merrylin Cryptid Museum, the life’s work of Crypto-naturalist, Fringe Zoologist and Xeno -Archeologist Thomas Merrylin. This is the online archive of his unique collection of specimens. Creatures and artifacts thought to be nothing more than myth. It is a mystery that challenges our understanding of biology, chemistry and the very laws of physics.”
“It is fantastic and absurd, it is a collection of ideas and stories, creatures that have left their indelible mark in the annals of history, in the tapestries and manuscripts of forgotten lore. It is a story of discovery, of dark secrets hidden within sealed vaults. It is a chance to peer into the void and let the void stare back. It is objects of curiosity brought into the light, which stand before you, asking you to place them in the context of reality. They ask, ‘What if I was real, what if I had lived?’”
Along with mummified werewolves and dragon skeletons, the site gallery also features an Eldritch study bureau, preserved dinosaurs, Necrotic Manuscripts, and a wraith hunting case.
for the insect enamel pin series, one artist who inspired me was Katarinana Vane, who does these tiny sculptures made out of bones and insect parts
for this next pin set, we’ve decided to collaborate! they sent me a stack of photos of various ‘insect species’, and I chose:
the Unicorn
the Changeling
and the Fairy
to be join the Cicada and the Black Witch Moth in the entomology pin series! if enough folk are interested in these, I could even make them 3D so that all the bones stick out, like this dinosaur saint series:
so let me know what you think!
A very exciting collaboration in progress!
I just added the original creature sculptures to my Etsy along with a few other new ones as well! Check the mini monsters shop section for the originals, and let @pangur-and-grim know if you’d like pins of these!
