Tools and instruments can acquire a spirit after being used by a household for 100 years. If they fall into disrepair or are neglected, those spirits can go feral. In the case of musical instruments, there are stories of forgotten ones growing bodies, donning red robes and playing mournfully in the distance.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 10”

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A monster cat appears, at first, like a regular cat. It grows both larger and size and supernatural powers with age. Some can eventually throw fireballs with their eyes. A cat can become a Bake Neko after 13 years or it grows to 8.25 pounds. This one was inspired by the 1977 Japanese Horror movie, House.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen with a simple switch and LED lights. 8”

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Inspired by the Futakuchi-onna, a woman who rarely eats and grows a monstrous second mouth on the back of her head that isinsatiable. It screams and causes her great pain if it isn't fed. Eventually, her tentacle-like hair grows long enough to feed to the mouth itself. Om nom nom.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 12”

A giant octopus so large that when it surfaced, the sky would turn red from it’s reflection. You could also smell it coming.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 14”

The tsukumogami that old umbrellas turn into. It hops around on one foot and has an inexplicably long tongue.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 10”

From a poem by Catherynne M. Valente.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 9”

Quotation by Guillermo del Toro

Embroidery floss on linen. 10”

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Little is known about these squat creatures except that their diet consists of small animals and terrible people.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 8”

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Inspired by Hyakume, one hundred eyes, who guarded temples and shrines and if someone approached, eyes would detach and follow them until they left.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 8”x12”

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A ghost with an eye instead of an anus, they seem to only want to startle people.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 10”

Ao Andon, The ghost that would appear at the end of seance like parties, where a hundred blue lanterns were lit and a hundred ghost stories told, when the last lantern went out.

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen with a simple switch and LED light. 8”

Quotation by Boris Karloff

Acrylic paint and embroidery floss on linen. 8”