Very Eerie Pre Halloween art for a sunny Tuesday, September 8th, in the 2026 fall show . .

winking on air as in a cornfield somewhere in Kansas the maze grabs another tourist . . . stalks that reach out and snatch . . . first someone’s poodle that ran ahead with the leash left writhing like a fallen snake . . . then a child and then who knows . . . a good day to go pumpkin picking at the pumpkin patch and all that but no . . . wanting to be home for popcorn and Netflix with everyone on the sofa and that not to be . . .

my fall series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The image is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-837

Tired of playing solitaire and going to check out a few open houses. Not the ones in the Sunday paper – oh no these are all Edwardian manses pictured in “Our beautiful homes, New South Wales Australia Series 1.” (the last one being from Series 2). Published ca. 1905.

Gawd all mighty even when you’ve seen a lot of these it’s amazing how many gew gaws Victorian and Edwardian people could fit into one room.

Front cover of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. Image 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/mode/1up
‘Swifts.’ (Hall) – Darling Point, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of EDMUND RESCH, Esquire. Image 8 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n8/mode/1up
‘Swifts.’ (Hall) – Darling Point, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of EDMUND RESCH, Esquire. Image 7 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n7/mode/1up
‘Linnwood.’ (Hall) – Guildford, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of Mrs. G. McCREDIE. Image 20 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n20/mode/1up

‘Edgmond’ – Wahroonga, N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of William Cooper, Esquire. Image 22 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n22/mode/1up
‘Burdekin House (Drawing Room) MacQuarie Street Sydney N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of Mrs. S. Burdekin. Image 22 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n44/mode/1up
“Ultimo House’ (Drawing Room) – Ultimo N.S.W. (New South Wales), Australia. Residence of Mrs. George Harris. Image 64 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 1. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/Homes3124/page/n64/mode/1up
‘Casserton’ – Gordon New South Wales – Resident of John M. Ferguson, Esquire. Image 78 of Our Beautiful Homes N.S.W, Series 2. From the collections of Sydney Living Museums/Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Library. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/OBHomes32449/page/n78/mode/1up

An envisioning. 1968. The golden hour approaching while the leaves turn colors at the villa outside Bucharest.

Oh to be here.

A seat out on the balcony, looking out towards the lake. Not a new bench you put together today and sit on tomorrow people. No, Grandmama’s settee, the one made out of twigs with the bark still on that matches the rail on the front porch. Very fashionable, the tree-trunk trend must have been, with the boathouses decked out in twigs and branches too, and the Virgin Mary behind the altar at the church with her own bark-covered oval frame to peek out of.

my new envisioning/short fiction piece posted to my Substack at the link. the image is from the 1920s.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1968-the-golden-hour

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 7th in the 2026 fall show . . .

whispering on air as in the putrid miasma of a broken into mausoleum in the abandoned cemetery down the lane the crows caw . . . cawing for whoever is buried there and forgotten . . . cawing for a past that is gone and a future no one wants at least not if they knew what was to come . . . maybe it can be changed around yet . . . maybe not . . .

my fall series post published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is a ceiling detail at the Royal Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey, England.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-c1f

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 6th in the MMXXVI show . . .

sparkling on air on the thud of a coconut as it falls from a palm tree as on the far side of Juno under the warmth of a very distant star a sign starts to flash . . . intergalatic neon in iridescent shades like mother of pearl in the bottom of the sea but brighter like a trillion suns . . . beckoning it is and shooting up with leaps and bounds . . . another few days and earthlings can see . . . come, it says . . . maybe it would be better . . . maybe you’ll be sorry . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. Please keep scrolling to see all the pictures- These are images with a common theme but a wide variety of styles, times, artists, etc

The image is from the Dennison Company Archives @dennisonarchivist on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-7a5

Le Village Suisse à l’Exposition nationale Suisse, Genève, Switzerland held in 1896. Long before you could do these things with smoke and mirrors and an assistant to work the Power Point.

Front cover, Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Image 1. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/mode/1up
Entrée du Village Suisse. – Période de Construction. F. Boissonnas, Genève, photographie. Illustration, Société des Arts Graphiques, Genève. Page 12 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/n12/mode/1up
Illustration on Page 5 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/5/mode/1up
Chalet de Suisse – Salle de Reception. Page 19 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/19/mode/1up
Chalet de Fischenthal. Illustration on Page 40 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/5/mode/1up
Atelier de Vannier — Apprenti en travail; Ecole de Métiers de Pribourg, Section de Vannerie. Page 73 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/73/mode/1up
Ornements et Tresses d’Argovie. Page 89 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/89/mode/1up
Ancien Costume St-Gallois. Page 155 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/155/mode/1up

A selection of hand-fans from the September email from Fan d’Eventails Paris. The better to flirt with my dear.

Advertising fan for the Carlton Hotel and Restaurant in London, England. Wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed with an image of a woman watering a field of cabbages from which children are emerging. George Redon, illustrator. Signed and dated George Redon 13 and inscribed July 13, 1914 on the reverse. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/4749-les-enfants-naissent-dans-des-choux-d-apres-redon-eventail-pour-le-carlton-de-londres-1913.html
Large hand-fan, the gauze panel painted with children after teatime; a little girl, accompanied by her mother, is on her way home after a game of shuttlecock. She walks past a bench where several children are laughing and squabbling over a doll. Some children are crying and one little girl appears to be praying. Tinted mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, the main guard being adorned with small children’s heads in brass or perhaps bronze. Signed by the painter Van Garden. ca. 1890-1895. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4757-childrens-afternoon-snack-fan-by-van-garden-circa-189095.html
Hand-fan made for a child with a dog and baby. Pierced and painted bone brisé fan with ribbons. ca. 1820. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4761-4.html

Fan for a doll. Mother-of- pearl brisé fan, pierced, carved and applied with burgau. 1900-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4751-doll-s-fan-mother-of-pearl-circa-1900-1930.html
Pair of painted bone brisés hand-fans made for a little girl or Parisian fashion dolls. One in shades of blue and the other in shades of green, both with measures. ca. 1900. Émile Brunin, maker. Signed and marked E Brunin Paris. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4767-10.html

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Friday September 4th in the 2026 fall show . . .

waltzing in air as the raptor awakens from her morning nap and stares down from the top of the mast of a ghostly ship . . . what will she find . . . who knows . . . a haunted something for the end of the world . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is Rotten pumpkin. ca. 2021. American. beadwork. Kathleen Ryan, artist via aizenmaj on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-d30

Very Eerie Pre-Halloween Art for September 2nd in the 2026 fall show . . .

wailing along as the ancient monks readjust their hoods and make their way up the volcano’s last slope through sulphur smelling steam and smoke . . . prayers and a desperate anything . . . the fire goddess appeased . . . or perhaps not . . .

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-f37

my series post for today at the link if you’d like to see it. Its around 20 images including this one

Purple dragon. 2021. @Lanaasy on Instagram. via Instagram.