Lucky Number 13 | M.P. Pellicer

How or why the number thirteen has acquired a connection to bad luck is not quite clear, but this superstition dates back hundreds of years to the Vikings, the Romans and even to present day when many buildings don't have a 13th floor. However at the end of the 19th century a club was formed whose purpose was to fly in the face of all superstitions including the dreaded number 13.

The club's inaugural meeting took place on Friday, January 13, at eight-thirteen in the evening, in room 13 of the Knickerbocker Cottage. (It was on Sixth Avenue and Twenty-Eighth; apparently nothing had been available on Thirteenth Street.) The following appeared in the Philadelphia Recorder in June, 1892:

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The Cursed Women | M.P. Pellicer

Many of these creations on canvas are at times described by the artist as being inspired from something outside themselves. Are they portraits or portals?

THE RAIN WOMAN

Ukranian artist Svetlana Telets was a newly minted artist who graduated in 1996 from Grekov Odessa Art School. Then she started to suffer nightmares and the feeling of being watched, by someone or something. The spell she had endured for six months was broken one day, when she took her paintbrush and produced the painting The Rain Woman in only 5 hours. She had never seen this subject before. 

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Born Under Crossed Stars | M.P. Pellicer

What would be the odds that could lose not one, but two of your children to murder? For a family in Kansas the odds were not high enough as two sisters both died at the hands of merciless killers almost twenty years apart.

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