Robbie

She is very representative of late Victorian death denial in that she looks "alive" and "peaceful" for a corpse. The 1880s brought about the "ideal" death as a quiet, peaceful one. Idealising "not knowing one was dying" ie dying in your sleep, unaware, was the perfect death.

L'inconnue de la Seine was supposedly a death mask of a girl drowned in the Seine and became a sensation during the 1880s due to her beauty despite drowning, but, due to evidence in Charles Bargues Drawing Guide, it more likely a life mask made during the 1860s

Sculptures I made while researching my PhD. They were made in 2023 & freakishly similar to Visage, like my whole thesis is freakishly similar to Verso in concept.

They're lead casts of L'inconnue de la Seine circa 1880s (Or Jeune Femme 1860s) a French late Victorian myth about a perfect 'corpse'

So really what what will happen is they're like the girls in the UK/Ireland who use foundation to make themselves tan 😂😂😂

You really can’t escape it can you? 😭😭

Slowly updating my original design for my favourite Light Cleric 🔥🔮✨

They can put it on our tombstones

Thank youuuuuu ❤️❤️

Got married on Thursday and only cried a little

Presumably she’s taking a powerful asset from him and risking their goal. Which seems against her own interests… i would love even a short story or something about that era of the world

There is a fun amount of rediscovery (for lack of a better word) on a second playthrough, but I do think you really have to have an investigative lens on. There’s so much to learn and notice the more you play.

I’d love to know more about Hauler, too. Especially since Clea and Renoir were allied.

PS. This is not to suggest that Verso doesn't lie by omission in Act 2 to reach his goals, but it is to refute the belief that Verso "compulsively" lies. Visage is not to imply that he is a capital L Liar to others at every turn. It is to imply that his father believes that he lies to himself.

More fun things from Visage: Mask Keeper harasses Verso with Dante Alghieri's Death mask (iykyk...) Dante is a popular plaster cast to study from in many Ateliers and one of Charles Barque's instructional lithographs from the era in which the game takes place.

#ClairObscur #Expedition33

By way of Verso's creations having masks as their real faces (Esquie, Gestrals, & Grandis) Verso has clearly disagreed (and not felt safe to be himself) since childhood, believing his nature is one of music, & sees painting as a mask that he must wear to satisfy his parents/family line.
(7/7)

He Who Guards the Truth with Lies is not just a straightforward parable on Verso’s tendency to be secretive & protect himself w/avoidant behaviour, it is Renoir’s belief that Verso is a true painter, and that his professional interest in music is a “mask” that hides his true nature: painting
(6/?)

Any creative practice uses illusion or some semblance of fiction (ie Lies) to explore various philosophies, ideas, and/or human experiences within a controlled and curated world. This would make all Creatives people who ‘guard the truth with lies’

(5/?)

Example: Kalf’s lobster still life, depicts a cooked lobster w/the bright, black eyes of a living lobster. Painters create a world of lies w/paint to try and capture universal truths of intangible things like ‘beauty’ ‘nature’ or ‘feeling’ but must use optical illusion in order to do so... (4/?)

Both discuss the nature of painting (and paintings) as “visual deceit (lies)” by creating images (visual copies) of things found in nature and ‘elevating’ them to a ‘higher purpose’ which is ‘Art’ creating worlds that cannot exist in nature.

all painters use paint to create worlds of lies... (3/?)

The sentiment “guards the truth with lies” in the context of the Dessendre family is a near direct reference to Blaise Pascal’s quote “What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire” and Maurice Blanchot’s 'Two Versions of the Imaginary' (2/?)

Academic takes on E33: ‘He Who Guards the Truth With Lies’ is one of the most misinterpreted parts of Expedition 33, and by extension Verso’s behaviour, due to ‘lies’ being so tied to moral failing. Imo is a direct reference to long debated 🇫🇷 philosophy on painting (1/?)

#ClairObscur #Expedition33

I keep seeing people assign Kübler-Ross's stages of grief to the Dessendres. It isn't a 1 to 1 – I'm not convinced that was the allegorical intent – but *if* you did it:

Aline: Depression
Maellicia: Denial
Clea: Anger
Renoir: Bargaining
Verso: Acceptance (but really he's Middle Knowledge imo)

I always forget to hashtag things in this app

^ #oilpainting #art #stilllife #engrisaille

Still life of a skull with a lace doily over the face and a red vessel underneath

Still life of an open skull with red ribbon on a lace doily (private collection)

Happy Halloween! I like painting skulls and red things 💀🥀

Little thread of my Maelle cosplay from MCM & general photo dump from the con. I made the cosplay from a bunch of primark jeans, a re-tailored (and painted) dress shirt, about 15 meters of bias tape, and a lot of prayers to the gods of craft...

#cosplay #clairobscur #expedition33 #maelle #mcm

I’m getting married in a few weeks but more importantly that means my old ttrpg table is getting back together and doing a one shot and I have to get a new PC designed aaaahhhhhhhh

Chiara and I getting ready for our Mira and Maelle cosplays

Mr Starr and myself (featuring a PARRY IT! sticker)

Group shot of all the E33 cosplayers that came to the fan meet on Saturday.

My partner, me, and Chiara in the baguette outfit for impromptu baguette army day on Friday

Back home and absolutely shattered but MCM was a blast. I have probably 200 pictures and so much loot to sort through 🥖❤️🤺

Thank you - it was actually very special I have not recovered 😭

“It’s time to stop painting” with Ben Starr’s signature in the back of my palette

I’m not crying, you’re crying

#expedition33 #clairobscur #verso

Some trading cards of my Light Cleric I’ll have at MCM 🥰 Left is original 5e campaign and right is BG3 version