I am absolutely loving the didactic quality of Mirelo Melo’s work. Inspiring!
Lots and lots of pretty happy colors. Isn’t it amazing what plants can do? Go nature! <3 g
tiny skeins of yarn dyed with plant dyes (weld, osage orange, logwood, madder, pomegranate). Detail of “Cures for Depressions”
Since deciding that I wanted to visit London, I was tasked with figuring out what I wanted to actually do in London. I hadn’t actually looked at a map of London until I had bought my…
I had braced myself for what my itinerary spelled out clearly; Seattle to Canada on a prop plane and then an overnight non-stop flight across the Atlantic to London. I’m sure you can…
Brilliant idea for bringing the web to rural areas where people don’t have access to the internet. phones, or computers. We might be looking at the next Nobel winner here…
I’ve been talking about it for years and now it’s finally going to happen.
I’m going to London! It’s true, I’ll be crocheting a jet plane and heading over the big pond tomorrow to attend the…
I’ve been taking a wonderful, if not spontaneous, respice.
During my time away I’ve partly read and then abandoned “Pride and Prejudice” (being young and having lots of money does not…
A scene in a fantastic garden India, Mughal style, late 18th century Opaque watercolour on paper In this intriguing painting, two nude men walk through a field picking flowering plants with human heads. Personifications of the sun and moon appear among the dark clouds above them. The premise context of this scene remains uniknown and it may have originated from an ancient Indian folktale, now lost. On the other hand, perhaps the artist intended to illustrate a variation on an episode from an ancient Middle Eastern tale featuring the Waqwaq tree. According to one account, the Waqwaq tree grows in a faraway land a bears fruit with human faces. This theme was also taken up in a medieval Persian story in which the ripened fruit of a magical tree fell to the ground and matured into man’s heads. (via British Museum - Search object details
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The very first Cabbage Patch Kids?
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