We haven’t posted a Substack article all summer, and with Labor Day imminent, we decided now would be a great time to subject ourselves to everyone’s favorite kind of labor—the kind that relies on para-social relationships, digital media platforms, and has at its core an almost impossible-to-define rubric for success!

That’s not to say we don’t appreciate your support; but darn it if we don’t wish we could have a picnic or go water-skiing with each and every one of you.

Anyway: Seth has not one but two new collections of physical work heading out into the world this week. First on that list is his show at Lost River Trading Post in Wardensville, WV, which features a massive range of Seth’s work from across nearly all of his collections. The show will be up September 3rd through around Halloween, with an official reception scheduled for Saturday, October 10th, from 3 - 5 PM.

Next we have SELECTED COSMOS, a collection of new works made from melted crayon. If you’ve never seen any of Seth’s crayon pieces, they are a surreal delight. This show, which opens at Creature Gallery in Thomas on September 5th, will be part of the annual Thomas Labor Day Art Walk, where you can find new work from a plethora of brilliant local (and non-local) makers.

We’d also like to highlight two newer bodies of work you may have missed: ARDENT EPHEMERA and GLOWING IN THE DARK, which rely on distinctive color palettes and abstract shapes & symbols to convey their message, as opposed to the more familiar combination of landscapes, characters, and text that Seth is known for.

A couple from ARDENT EPHEMERA:

A couple from GLOWING IN THE DARK:

Lastly, if anyone knows a good place to get a sandwich, somewhere, anywhere, on this planet Earth, do let us know. Have a great week!

KC

Art of Seth social media chancellor Kenvin Checkers here, coming to you live from the bleeding edge (my “desk”).

Now listen: it’s 2026. Your attention has been divided and subdivided to the point of madness by an ever growing phalanx of digital media outlets. But we don’t care. What we have to show you is better. Larger. More mind bending and delicious than you could ever imagine. Than we could have ever imagined.

We have some new originals for sale, plus their accompanying prints:

“Good Luck Amongst the Cosmos”

Print

Original

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“Dreamboat #2”

Print

Original

“Quintello and His Qwinponiphone”

Print

Original

“Study of a Dream of Flowers”

Original

“Dreamboat #2”

Print

Original

“Flowers in the Vase of the World”

Original

The mind of Seth knows no quit, acknowledges no boundaries. And just wait until you hear his reggae album.

I’ve been Klevin Chesney, for Seth “Bottomless Pit” Pitt. Have a lovely weekend <3

A new framed limited edition just hit the literal and metaphorical shelves. Meet “Harriet and Her Friends”.

We have 6 of these LTE framed prints available: 3 in 11” x 14” and 3 in 16” x 20”. All prints are hand-signed, numbered and dated.

If you have any questions about this series, or would like to see more angles / detail shots, please reach out to creaturesofseth@gmail.com or contact us here. Please note that colors may vary slightly in real life. Pictures below! Have a great weekend, everyone.

Purchase: “Harriet and Her Friends LTE”

Social media manager Kelvin Chensler here with an update and a reminder about new items for sale, and a sweet little promotion to boot.

For the next week, all online orders come with a free 2026 Dream Houses calendar. Just enter the code “YEAR” at checkout.

This promo should pair nicely with our selection of new prints, originals, and limited editions that are just itching to escape the confines of the Art of Seth warehouse. They want out. They want to come live with you.

Perhaps you are interested in a super fresh Dream House original. There’s more where this came from, just peep the whole collection:

Purchase here: A Study of Evening Delight

Or one of our new Dream House prints:

Purchase prints here: Moon Blossom #1 or the original here: Original Painting

Maybe a New Worlds original will strike your fancy. (Why is everyone always striking their fancy? You should never strike anyone.):

Purchase here: Dreamboat #714

Or perhaps one of these Creatures of the Heart limited editions is more your style — each one comes with a hand embellished heart and hand drawn moon. The original of this print is also available!

Purchase here: Quickly Thawing

And just in case that embarrassment of riches wasn’t embarrassing enough, here’s a couple questions for the man himself:

KC: Memorial Day weekend is the ArtSpring festival in Tucker County, one of the biggest weekends of the year in our area for local arts and businesses. There’s a large slate of public events and performances, but there’s also things that go on outside of the official festival programming, and you’re involved in pretty much all of it. Can you talk a little about what that weekend is like, and everything that goes into getting ready for it?

SP: Gearing up for ArtSpring is a lot like juggling cats. It’s whole lot of finishing up artwork that has been brimming over from the winter months and my stint down in Florida. But it’s also filled with all the background work of patching and painting walls, making posters, coordinating with guest artists and generally reworking both galleries, Creature and Invisible. The main thing I want to impress upon people about this weekend is that there are a bunch of excellent artists showing new work in town. Ruth Blackwell Rogers at Gradient, Carina Cass at Santangelo, Atiya Jones at Nellie Rose Design house, Nathan Baker & Kevin Chesser at Invisible. Here's a photo dump of the posters for all these shows opening that weekend:

KC: If you were an Olympian, what would be your sport, and what would be the cause of your tragic downfall as a public figure?

SP: PingPong. Cocaine.

xoxo

KC & seth.

This update will be brief. As I’m writing this, it is 6:30 EST on a Saturday night. No one wants to read Substack at 6:30 PM on a Saturday, am I right? You should be ironing your duds for the sock hop and eating a big bowl o’ granny’s mashed potatoes to fortify your body and mind in advance of doing the Mashed Potato for hours on end, until collapsing as one afflicted with medieval dancing sickness (see: the Dancing Plague of 1518).

We have new limited editions for sale. Limited editions are prints produced in small runs that feature variations on the standard, open edition print.

First up is this LTE from our Small Tales collection (link below):

“They Did What They Could With What They Had” LTE

Next we have this delightful, hand-embellished LTE from our Creatures of the Heart collection (link below):

“Slowly Thawing” LTE

And! These new prints in our Dream Houses collection:

Moon Blossom #1

Moon Blossom #2

Dream House #1,111

Lastly, a preview of some cool stuff happening in Thomas over Memorial Day weekend.

New work from Seth!

Which will be part of this event:

We’ll share more info about those events here in the coming weeks. Thanks for reading everyone, and happy Saturday! Try not to dance yourself to death.

Love,

seth. & team

It’s been a few months since our last post. We hope this interval has been as agonizing for you as it’s been for us — just kidding. We hope to never cause you anything remotely resembling agony. Befuddlement, maybe. Bated breath, OK sure. But never agony.

Warmer and longer days are on their way, but in West Virginia, especially at the higher elevations, the next 8-10 weeks can be just as punishing as deep winter, mainly for their unpredictability. Warm air and friendly beams of sun one day, howling gales of ice and sleet the next.

It’s no wonder that our charming and benevolent commander usually heads to the Florida Keys around this time every year, a necessary period for both him and his staff. Seth gets to reset his body and his brain before the busy summer season, and we get a break from Seth (LOLLLLLLL)!

Here are a few snippets of what the big man’s been working on down there:

We also have a nice selection of new original drawings and paintings available on our website. Below are a few samples. You can check out all of the recently listed pieces here: Miscellaneous Originals.

Finally, we’ll wrap things up with three questions for Seth.

1.

For the last 6 years, you’ve spent a significant portion of winter in Key West. Besides a reprieve from the West Virginia cold and snow, what draws you to that area? What do you get from your time there, creatively, emotionally, or otherwise?

The list is long here and I could go on about this for a good long while as the reasons for my coming down here have compounded over the years of visiting. There’s a truly marvelous community of artists and musicians, the landscape is filled with flowers at every turn, i can get everywhere on a bike or on foot, and people tend to say hello to each other more willingly on the street than most places i go. I also really like chickens, of which there are many.

All that being said, when it really comes down to it, it’s just really important for me to carve out times in the year where the absolute main focus is to meditate on the making of art. Overwhelmingly, I look at my time in Key West as an art residency and minimize distractions that might take me away from that.

As i’ve said over and over again, i love my home and live in my favorite town i’ve ever been to. But there’s something that can happen to me creatively when i distance myself from the super familiar. And even as i’ve come to know Key West really well, it’s still a mysterious place to me. I believe that gets into my creative process and i tend to navigate my work as a new, somewhat unfamiliar place. I can get there when in my mountain studio, but it’s not always as easy as when my surroundings are vastly different from the place i call home.

2.

Something that a lot of folks might not know is that you are a (generally) nocturnal person. Have you always been a night owl? And how does this influence your work?

I have always not really wanted to go to sleep. It’s not that i don’t like sleep (i do) but I usually have to wear myself out in order to find going to bed appealing.

In relation to art, i generally find myself waking up creatively a while after the sun goes down. I am not sure why this is. Functionally, i think that my hyperactive nature just does a little bit better with focus once the world has gone to bed. (Poetically, i like to speculate that it has to do with my love affair with the moon.)

I often think of the creation of art as reaching into a great endless expanse and world building from that feral creative force that is perpetually blooming throughout the entire universe. In the day time, it’s very easy to see our place here as terrestrial beings, but at night it’s easier to see our place as cosmic entities, so i suppose it makes sense that the night would be a little more of an inspiring time for me.

3.

Scenario: a crime of passion lands you in a penal colony on Mars. You get your choice of 1 meal a week that isn’t space gruel. What meal is it?

First of all, i was framed. As it turns out my once-trusted social media manager had spent the better part of a year carefully fabricating and then integrating “evidence” against me into my platform. I thought it was strange when he wanted me to pose with a high-powered flame thrower, saying our content really just needed “a little edge”. This is what the people are asking for, he said. This is what the algorithm needs, he said. I just need a little cash for some deep fake technology, he said. For when you’re gone to Florida and don’t want to be bothered with this stuff, he said.

Additionally, i don’t know why i even need to say this but the Peanut Butter Man is not a real person. And “murder-melting” isn’t a thing. And even if it was, wouldn’t Peanut Butter Man’s temperature eventually just cool down and he would reassemble to his natural texture and viscosity, allowing him to, once again, go terrorizing Celery World and all the free-spirited and fibrous celery damsels there? This whole thing doesn’t even make sense. Has the whole world gone mad!!!???

But anyway, a BLT, (brandywine tomatoes, iceburg lettuce) on sourdough, add swiss cheese, onions and extra mayo.

Social media manager’s note: swiss cheese isn’t real, either.

All the warmth and love,

seth. & team

Because of this, we’re going to send everything that comes in between now and 2:30pm tomorrow (Dec 18th) priority for free!

(Note: Our site only offers standard but we will ship it all priority from the gallery)

Also! there’s a 25% coupon code we’re offering on top of that for all you sweetheart substack subscribers. On the checkout page you can simply enter thankyou where it asks for a “discount code or gift card” right beneath your items at checkout.

We still have Ornaments, which you can find here !

Lastly, i got a little overzealous with our calendars this year so we’re a bit overstocked as such, we bumped those down to $20 (before your coupon). You can find those here

Thanks for a great season and thanks for supporting independent artists! Ya’ll definitely make a certain strange world go round.

All the best,

seth. (and team)

P.S.

We’re still going to ship priority through the end of Friday but USPS doesn’t make any promises.

My elephantine thanks for supporting small business this holiday season!

Also, We still have the 2026 Dream House Calendars available which you can fine here

Hope your thanksgiving is filled to the brim with things to be grateful for.

:Also, i joined a few folks gathering last night for the first writing session of the season. It was particularly sweet as i’ve drifted from a regular writing practice and had a reason to try to mine a poem from that part of my brain. Here’s what ended up rising to the surface:

This fall

The leaves are bunching up against the curb

and the greens are being displaced by the grays and the browns

and the air is filling with a feeling of

quietly-putting-things-down for a good undoing.

I’m trying to be ready for a fallow time

when these gorgeous flowers

finally stop their preening and i can stop waxing on about this one or that one

and stop caring about looking everywhere all at once.

There’s ways to find delight beneath a blanket of ice

if you slow your breathing down enough

to understand a different kind of growth that has nothing to do

with blooming or burgeoning.

And as that dark wind comes

to hollow out the carcass of the forest across the street

I will say, me too friend,

me too.

Thanks for being here.

• • •

After thoroughly tiring myself out vending Handmade Arcade up in Pittsburgh, i dropped the van at the airport and sent myself across the country to Santa Fe for the week.

At night, it is freezing and the waxing moon is a dream boat and the stars are little frozen jewels. The days are bright and the air is crisp like paper wings. I will likely never live in the desert but when i’m out here there’s always a part of me that laments that fact. The dreams of other lives. I am happy with whatever time i have here but am poignantly aware that there is simply not enough of it to live a fraction of the lives i would like to. Good thing there’s daydreaming where small parts of us can travel those paths.

On this trip i found myself building some houses for those dreams. A place where a part of me can make those dreams a home and live on somewhere outside of time.

Here’s a few ‘Dream Houses’ that have spilled out onto the page this week.

Oh, also! Just as i was finishing this up i remembered that last year i was out here, i had started a little thread that connects to these pieces. Most of my trip at at that time was consumed by following the whims which eventually led to ‘Transient Landscapes’. But i just recalled i had made three tiny pieces which i had also thought of as dream houses and was able to find them.

Once again, elephantine thanks.

‘Creatures of the Heart’ was the first proper series that i really developed. There was a lot of meandering from subject matter and style before i came across these. (It was about 20 years ago when i was 22) After drawing about 4 or 5 pictures of stick-men doing curious things with a bright red heart, I remember pretty clearly asking myself, “Are you really going keep drawing these? Like, are you going to be that guy that draws hearts.” and then i remember deciding. “Yes, i will draw these until the ideas run out because i love drawing these.” Even in their first primitive stick-man phase i loved this series. I’m now pretty sure that the ideas will not run out. I’m pretty reminded about that with every turn. If you happen to pick the subject matter of “exploring the strange circumstances of navigating this world as an emotional being” you’re pretty much in it for the long haul. I’m glad i stumbled into this everlasting tumbling forward. Anyway, Click here to find these on the store site or just check them out below:

Oasis. prints available here.

A song of wishes. prints available here

Winter Chores (or An homage for the passing of things) prints available here

Hmmm…. prints available here

Lastly, reminder for folks. We do still have the 2025 New Worlds calendars in stock. You can find those here:

Thanks for being here

The horizon busies itself with kaleidoscoping bits of light as it parades off into the distance. The stones beneath our feet, every so slowly, go crumbling themselves back into space. And someday, the moon will be the size of a marble, having scattered the dust of itself to the cosmos. Illuminated anew by some fresh lightning, not a thing in this world stands still.

We are changed again, again.

It’s been a solid year of playing with this Legion black watercolor paper. I am still entirely perplexed by it but no less excited about the possibilities. Below are three of the most recent pieces that worked out. We just posted them to our site

You can find them here

Also, just a reminder that we DO still have some New Worlds 2025 calendars in stock. They are in house and ready to ship and i am really really happy with them:

these are also still available on the website: You can find them here

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This includes some of the newest pieces made this year as well as some old favorites.

This calendar also denotes the Full and New Moon. Cause, of course.

Transient Landscapes

The horizon busies itself with kaleidoscoping light as it parades off into the distance. The stones beneath our feet, ever so slowly, go crumbling themselves back into space. And someday, the moon will be the size of a marble, having scattered the dust of itself to the cosmos. Illuminated anew by some fresh lightning, not a thing in this world stands still. We are changed again, again.

Prints are available in the online shop here!

Check out more prints from Small Tales.

Speaking of the passing of days, We made a 2024 calendar:

All the best,

seth.

I’m ever grateful.

You also, thank you, whoever you are out there,
somehow mind-boggleingly reading this.
To you my elephantine gratitude.

I’m going to say things here i guess, for a little while at least. And share work and news and such.

Here’s something i wrote last night:

I ended up incorporating this text into a brand new Creatures of the Heart print, you can find that piece here: 

 https://theartofseth.com/collections/creatures-of-the-heart/products/endless-coins-of-stars?variant=42944912949398

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