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PROJECT M : Under the billowing skirt

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Apollonia Saintclair 1161 – 20240316 La belle flottante (Under the billowing skirt) – sketch

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A fair flower with a strangled throat

Kept afloat by her bloated skirt

She drifts toward the slimy moat

Her bare blond hair dragging in the dirt

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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PROJECT M : And she saw his naked flesh

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Apollonia Saintclair 1160 – 20240307 La possession de Katharina K. (And she saw his naked flesh) – sketch

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A strange light shines in the young man’s pupils.

Prey to madness, the widow advances a quivering mouth.

Fingers buried like banderillas in the beautiful archangel,

She devours the warm, fragrant flesh with full throat.

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : The unfulfilled bride

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Apollonia Saintclair 1159 – 20240306 Le mariage de convenance (The unfulfilled bride) – sketch

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A young unfulfilled widow, remarried by convenience

To a smug and frigid merchant, in a silent mansion

She dreams, all languid by her guest’s appearance

To flatter his avid flesh with licentious passion.

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : Till the river silences her

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Apollonia Saintclair 1158 – 20240224 La fiancée indocile (Till the river silences her) – sketch

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The rebel is thrown into the river

And held down with tight ropes

As her life flows away with a whisper

Under cold water, till she chokes.

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : Death is where I am not

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Apollonia Saintclair 1157 – 20240221 La Fleur de Mai (Death is where I am not) – sketch

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I dropped deep into the black,

But darkness sent me back.

Let’s flip the hourglass, it said,

‘Cause your time is not up, yet.

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : THE INK OF DAYS PAST

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Apollonia Saintclair 1156 – 20240212 L’éternel retour (The ink of days past) – sketch

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Time is a haunted parchment,

Smeared with ink of days past.

Ghostly lines guide our hand

As we trace our own eerie path.

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

Order now : apolloniasaintclair.bigcartel.com

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PROJECT M : To protect freedom against oppression

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Apollonia Saintclair 1055 – 20240203 Le pacte secret (To protect freedom against oppression) – sketch

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“Together they form an occult society,

A ring of protection, hidden but strong,

Forged by devotion, a sworn company,

A cult against oppression and wrong.

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The circle that binds them all

Towards a common destination,

Is also what condemns them all

To suffer the same retribution.”

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Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

Order now : apolloniasaintclair.bigcartel.com

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PROJECT M : Notre Dame of the ruins

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Apollonia Saintclair 1154 – 20240127 La Confession (Notre Dame of the ruins)

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“I was born in a combustible time,

Haunted by feverish clairvoyants,

And also, pyromaniac magicians

Ready to set the world on fire.

I saw the monsters take shape,

Slip into my city with a smile

And capture all living souls

To burn them at the stake”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : The straw that stirs the Devil’s brew

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Apollonia Saintclair 1153 – 20240119 Le prédicateur (The straw that stirs the Devil’s brew) – sketch

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“He brought the Holy Word, purged of popish lies, and rich bourgeois women, maids and nuns followed him without hesitation on the path to deliverance. For he was their fervent shepherd, come to guide them through the fiery clouds of the coming Apocalypse.”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : And five of his wives used to clean his body

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Apollonia Saintclair 1152 – 20240114 Le lever du Roi Jean (And five of his wives used to clean his body) – sketch

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“Every morning, after he had spent the night with his wives, I washed his feet. Others took care of the rest of his body.”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

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PROJECT M : The mystical baker

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Apollonia Saintclair 1151 – 20240108 Le pétrissage de la chair (The mystical baker) – sketch

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“She was fourteen when they had first met, about thirty years his junior. Attracted by her beauty and by her knowledge of the Bible, the former baker and self-appointed prophet had lured her away from her parents with holy and beautiful words and told her that God had shown him great things and instructed him to leave is lawful wife and to take her as his spiritual sister and bride. And thus, he took her secretly to Amsterdam with him and brought her to a hidden place.”

Inspired by true events from the Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.

Preliminary drawing | Release Fall 2024

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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in the 6 volumes of INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION

Order now : apolloniasaintclair.bigcartel.com

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