Bryan Paul Patterson

Mud Womb, 2015
digital image from flatbed scan
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This is a high-res image of a polished slab of fossilized #stromatolite. Weird little bacterial colonies like this were responsible for The Great Oxygenation Event 2.4 billion years ago that made life on Earth as we know it possible. #art #fossils

Les Ennuis, 2020
digital photomontage from found photography
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Another composition I made for cyanotype printing. I combined about six or seven images from my collection of vintage/antique negatives to make this visual narrative.
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#art #collage #foundphoto #outsiderart #blackandwhite #artist

three different pics of the same old white lady wearing green surrounding a full moon

there are three wolves inside of me

King of Cups, 2018
digital photomontage
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This is an old collage I made as part of a series that was printed with the cyanotype process. When the project began, it was mainly influenced by #tarot symbolism, but later became more ambiguous.
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#art #collage #magick #digitalart #paganism

Tombstone Rebis, 2025
Fomapan400 shot on a #Rolleiflex 3.5B
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When I saw them, I couldn’t resist shooting a double-exposure combining the two charming portraits on this notorious tomb marker in Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery.
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#photography #film #magick #doubleexposure #istillshootfilm #occult

Evolution of a Scrying Painting (Work in Progress), 2025-2026
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I started painting again this winter. I refer to this technique as “scrying” because the composition comes from visualizations that I encounter in meditation and ritual. This painting is not yet complete. #art #painting #magick #wip

X (September), 2025
Fomapan400//#rolleiflex 3.5B
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Renewing my intention once again to leave Instagram and migrate my internet presence somewhere I can still find audience and community. Is Bluesky that place?
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This photo was shot at Deschutes Falls County Park in Yelm, Washington.
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#art #magick

It’s an image that appeared to me in meditation. Not sure what the symmetry is about. Perhaps there’s some sort of Jungian explanation, haha… 🤔

Scrying Painting in progress, 2025
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I found some cheap large canvases a few weeks ago and started some new scrying paintings. Working on this one, I’ve found some sort of psychedelic butterfly entity. 🦋
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#workinprogress #painting #art #outsiderart #scrying #mysticism #dadaism #magick

Work in Progress, 2025
acrylics on canvas

I haven’t been very active on blue sky for a few months, and at any rate, I haven’t been producing a lot of art. Here’s a #workinprogress shot of a painting I’ve been adding layers to for months now. #magick #asemicwriting #art #outsiderart #occultart

Deschutes Falls (Beltane) III, 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat

Deschutes Falls (Beltane), 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat

Deschutes Falls (Beltane) II, 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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Capturing a shape the river took when the sun struck it one evening.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat

Kunty and Paula as Tragedy and Comedy.
5.2025
8x10" ambrotype #wetplatecollodion
#ambrotype #largeformat

snout. gouache on paper, 2017

Two Views of Deschutes Falls 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan 400
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A diptych of the vistas at Deschutes Falls in Washington State. It is a very striking, numinous place.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #paganism #sacredspace

The Log Gate, 2024
Fomapan 400 shot on a #Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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Another portrait of a liminal wilderness.
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Archival Giclée prints available🌘
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #film #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #faerie #magick #nature

Wreckage II, 2024
Fomapan 400 shot on a Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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I have a habit of stumbling upon wrecked abandoned vehicles on forest roads.
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #vintagecamera #istillshootfilm #film #analog #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #anthropocene

Now that we’re past the Equinox, the wildflowers are celebrating the renewed sunlight and warmth.
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Left to right: Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus); Western Wakerobin (Trillium ovatum); Venus’ Slipper Orchid (Calypso bulbosa); Snow Queen (Veronica regina-nivalis).
#wildflowers

Y.M.N.S.U.B.W.S.Y, 2024
Acrylic on board
≈12”x16
🌙 available for sale ⭐️
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Meditative abstract piece I made in the fall and winter of 2024.
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#art #abstract #magick #painting

View from Deschutes Falls, 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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One of most sacred places I’ve found recently.
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#magick #photo #art #filmphotography #waterfall #analog #liminal #landscape #paganism

Cross hatching drawing of two cherubs from the waist up, they're holding hands and almost kissing, there's one with black hair and wings and one with a greysih skin tone and white hair and wings

Posting this before I start hating it with all my soul (sketch for copper engraving)
#traditionalart

The Psychonauts Temple
#collage #analogcollage #handmadecollage #cutandpastecollage #collagesky #collageartist #collageart #occultart #chaosmagick

Shadow Ditch, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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A view from the strange roadsides of Wenas Valley, Wa.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shadow #analog #liminal #landscape #spiritofplace

Masks, Zbrush Sculpts

Red Top Mountain, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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This was taken on a hiking trail near the summit of the range. Overgrown park bulletins were covered in names and initials that had been carved into them.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #travel

In Memory 1, 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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This is a new project I’m just starting. I live in an area where there are roadside memorials everywhere, markers honoring people who died near that spot.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #death

Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.

Columbine
4/2015 13 X 20 inches [33 X 50.8 cm] Graphite on Paper
#sciart #gawoski #pollen #botany #botanical