Judith Schossböck — Bog Characters
“Profound illness such as ME/CFS or a spinal CSF leak define and change every core of your existence, every cell of your body, and they interfer with your brain in a way that is hardly imaginable for the average person. When I started to draw out of an impulse to communicate the extreme transformation I was going through, it would have felt extremely weird to draw myself or my figurative feelings as a classic human being. So I came up with a frog or bog like character with an open burning head or scalp, with green skin because I couldn’t identify with normal healthy skin colour anymore, and with orange or/and red hair coming out of my brain, resembling nerves that are hurtfully pulled in many directions, and most of the time empty or yellow eyes, and several holes.
Later on, this figure extended into a more detailed character and is reappearing as a variation with different accents in my work.”
![](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Longing_for_sunset-or-Self-portrait-without-puncture_Web.jpg)
Longing for sunset, or: Self-portrait without puncture
Acrylic paint on cardboard
2022
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Sold
![](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Incurable_Web.jpg)
Incurable
Watercolours on paper
2022
Size: 21 x 14,8 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 100,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![Red snakes wriggle out of the open skull of a green figure. The figure has a fried egg on her eye, a black collar with a ring and several earrings. Two puncture needles pierce the skin of the figure and one of the snakes.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Zeichnung_14_05_2022_fertig_klein.jpg)
Self portrait with puncture
Acrylic gouache on paper
2022
Size: 32 x 24 cm
Sold
![A green figure with red fire jets on its head rides a bed on rails toward a large hole in the body of a Black Grim Reaper. "Ghost Train" is written on the bed.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Ghost_train_Foto_1.jpg)
A dark ride
Fineliner and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red and purple fire rays on its head stands on a blue paper boat. It fishes with a fishing rod in a school of fish and has a human brain on the hook.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Hirnfischer_Foto_1.jpg)
Where is my mind
Pastel and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red fire rays on its head and black boots on its feet hangs tied to ropes upside down in a spiral construction. Several ants and a snake can be seen on the construction.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Loop.jpg)
Loop
Fineliner and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 70,-
Framed picture — € 130,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red, green, and blue fire jets on its head lies in a bubble bath. Black, pointed arrows shoot out of a shower head at the figure.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Relax_Foto_1.jpg)
Relax
Pastel on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 60,-
Framed picture — € 120,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red fire rays on its head lies in a bed and is being crushed by a fly swatter.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Double-splatter_Foto_1.jpg)
Double splatter
Fineliner and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red and orange fire rays on its head is being eaten by a zebra.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Time_for_a_healthy_salad.jpg)
Time for a healthy salad
Marker, watercolor and graphite pencil on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![Red and orange fire jets shoot out of the open skullcap of a green figure. Several black ants are crawling on the figure's head.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Selbstportraet_mit_Ameisen_Foto_1.jpg)
Self portrait, or I turn into a vine louse
Pastel and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 70,-
Framed picture — € 130,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red fire jets on its head wears two tight black stockings that pinch its legs.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Pressure_Frog_Foto_1.jpg)
Pressure
Fineliner and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red fire rays on his head and Mickey Mouse ears sits in an open refrigerator and holds an apple in its hand. There are three apples on the fridge and an oversized ear hanging on the side that catches sound waves.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Kuehlschrank_Foto_1.jpg)
Hyperacusis
Pastel and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red fire jets on its head sits on the edge of a goldfish bowl. Fish and a globe swim in the glass.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The_medical_anthropocene_Foto_1.jpg)
The medical anthropocene
Fineliner and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 60,-
Framed picture — € 120,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green seahorse with red fire rays on its head stands next to a shell.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Inhuman.jpg)
Inhuman
Watercolor pencil and ink on paper
2021
Size: 25,5 x 17 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![Four green and blue figures with jets of fire on their heads sit in and beside a tub. Yellow lights shine overhead.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Feed_your_egos_Foto_1.jpg)
Feed your egos
Pastel and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!
![A green figure with red fire rays on its head sits in a diving helmet at the bottom of the sea. Two sea serpents coil around the helmet.](https://blackferkstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Taucherhelm_Foto_1.jpg)
Helmet
Fineliner and marker on paper
2021
Size: 29,7 x 21 cm
Pure picture, without a frame — € 50,-
Framed picture — € 110,-
plus shipping costs
Info:
70% of the sale goes to Black Ferk Studio.
30% to ME/CFS research or NGOs.
Interested? We look forward to your request!