Stages of Decomposition, Embroidery by calicoranger

Joshua Antonio Wallace - Rehearsal, 2023

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photographer Zsolt Ku

egret

Commission for @ratlab-art !

rubina verde (aka cranberry uranium glass) epergne

ANNE HATHAWAY Vanity Fair (March 25, 2024)

The solar eclipse of June 29, 1927. Photo by H. von Kluber in the Lapland region of Finland.

(Cambridge University)

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Eating their own tails: vintage ouroboros imagery.

speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

hand embroidery on natural linen - adipocere

☽ 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 (x) ☾

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (1795–1866) ~ Reclining Female Nudes, ca. 1853. Salted paper prints from paper negative | src The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Between 1851 and 1855 Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, a student of Millet and a lithographer of scenes of daily life, costume, and erotica, made a series of small-scale paper photographs of naked women which he marketed (and legally registered) as models for artists. Whether they were intended solely for artists is arguable, but in order to sell the images openly the photographer had to work into his pictures the paraphernalia of the painter’s studio–rugs, shawls, spears, beads, anklets, turbans, and the like. Despite these moderations Vallou’s nudes were remarkable. Their flesh was tantalizingly real in both weight and texture; indeed, the photographs served Courbet as appropriately lifelike models.

Scottish dagger with antler hilt, 19th century.

from Sofe Design Auctions

eve, after the fall (auguste rodin; bronze, 1883)

Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve // Hozier, From Eden // Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // Eagles, The Last Resort // Anne Sexton, Words for Dr. Y