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Grub, Storied Matriarch

Jesper Ejsing

When I first started working for Magic in 2005 the set I worked on was Lorwyn. Now; 20 years later we return to Lorwyn and I had the great pleasure of being part of the design team for the set. One of the task I was given was to try and make the Boggarts a tiny bit more likeable. Especially the elderly female boggarts called Aunties - something like witches - had to look like…

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Rückenfigur

Lauren Panepinto

September 4, 2025 - I didn't know there was a word for this until recently, but of course there is, and of course it's German. Rückenfigur (literally "back-figure") is a compositional device in painting, graphic art, photography, and film. A person is seen from behind in the foreground of the image, contemplating the view before them, and is a means by which the viewer can identify with the image's figure and then recreate the space to be conveyed. (from Wikipedia) The textbook example of this is this image is Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog: And in fact, I only heard the term Rückenfigur at all because there was just a Caspar David Friedrich exhibit at The Met. He loved this device and it shows up in his work a number of times:   Obviously Friedrich…

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