What Is The Obsidian Manor?

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What Is The Obsidian Manor?

The Obsidian Manor is brand new and has not officially been released yet (as of March 2025), but will be released mid-2025.

For anyone that truly knows me, knows that I'm gothic, I'm a metalhead, I'm a witch (witches run in the family on my mother's side of the family - both parents), and I'm a Satanist.  I love the macabre.  I love dark art.  I love dark history.  I love the unsettling.

Even though I create bright, colorful pieces of art mainly for Prismatic Skies, my art and everything about me, has always gravitated towards, "the darkness."  Now, the darkness is not necessarily bad, or evil, or sadness, or death.  There's a lot of misunderstood beauty in what many think is dark.  I find beauty in almost everything I encounter, be it light or dark.  You cannot have one without the other.  That's a fact.  In order to truly love and appreciate the good and light in your life, you also need to learn to embrace the darkness that brought you to that light.  The pure.  The, "good."

The darkness is the place where we are forced to dig deep and really find ourselves and really survive from it.  More often than not, a lot of the people that maybe you consider role models, how they can be so inspiring, and teach us so much wisdom, has not gone through self discovery without being dragged through ditches into the deepest parts of their personal hell, to come back out a survivor, to truly appreciate the greatest gift of all.  Life.

I'm a collector of many things, and the majority of the things that I collect, many find...well...disturbing or, "fucked up."

What are these disturbing, fucked up things that I collect?  Well...
  • Antique Catholic and Christian artwork, antique church items, statues, rosaries (I have a rosary blessed by Pope John Paul II - the first ever Slavic Pope and the first ever youngest elected when he was 58 years old), prayer cards, and misc iconography.
  • Mortuary/Funeral items:  Casket stands, prayer benches, plaques, etc.
  • Taxidermy.  Mainly vintage/antique.
  • Antique/vintage medical equipment, books, models etc.
  • Old photos.
  • And other weird misc stuff.

I have always wanted a big part of my business to reflect a lot of my personality and the things that I collect, that I am into, and present it in a beautiful, tasteful manner.  So, I started The Obsidian Manor.  Eventually down the road, I will have custom boxes, bags, cards etc. stuff made for the business.  But I want to start this slowly and see how well this goes.

I'll be doing more art, taxidermy, decor, jewelry, clothes and stuff related to the occult a lot, that I will be creating or otherwise have found for wholesale (like maybe robes and such).

Everything will literally be black.  Very rarely a color will make an appearance, and if there is a color, it will likely be a crimson red and gold.

Elegant.  Beautiful.  A little macabre.  A little macabre.  A little fucked up. 





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