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Dear Visitors, Inspirers and Followers, As one cannot remain a Ganymede’s forever; since in life you better rise an eagle than fall as its prey; I better not hide my identity any longer. My name is Jean Louis, I have been a research chemist for many years, which granted me a U.S. Personal residency for being a scientist with outstanding abilities. Art and Beauty are essential ingredients to my life; earlier as a collector’s hobby, but now also as an art buying advisor or liaison for decorators and the art trade, where I count numerous friends… a reason more to finding myself, hopping continents. An Aesthete, I was born in Belgium, of European continental and non-continental descent. This has made me passionate and spirited. A Monarchist; therefore somehow a Conservative, I am unabashedly a supporter of Human Rights, and a believer in Unconditional Love. I love American professionalism but, culturally, my anglophile edge is more “open-ended“, meaning that I love almost each and every country that finding an Anglo-Saxon style to its origins, has known how to “vernacularize” it personably. When not in America, I live in Aquitaine, primarily because of my love for my Mother, but also for the beauty by which the regionals understand leading a French lifestyle with a distinctive compatibility with British “flair”; its architecture, its landscape, its art and, of course, epicurean traditions. I may appear in love with the past, through culture, music and traditions. However, that said, I am extremely open to innovation, for as much as it is aptly distributed toward enhancing a non-depletive utilisation of the World’s resources we only, temporarily, are lessors of. I “militate” against poor taste [not an easy task in my new job], even if I do agree that tastes and colours are never to be debated ever. Unlike even spirituality, geo-politics and sexuality, they can never ever set a fungible common ground… and if venturing otherwise proves me wrong, than, it becomes likely that I found my “Soul Mate”. My favourite music is classical; my favourite book is simply the one written for its content, not for how it will be received by the public; after all, are books to be about trend?- or – should they be about culture; for trends there is fashion. Culture, by its inner-sustainability, should be more trans-generational than that. I dislike technology, when its enslaving; thus I find myself punctually irritated, by cell-phones, games consoles, electronic books and most things that are a product of this century, which so far has suppressed more than it has delivered, outside of technology and gadgetry of course. Social skills, good writing and particularly orthography, being among what has been the most depleted during the last decade. It is because social media is not about communicating when you feel the need to walk your favourite pet, that, besides being a Googler and a 'Wikipediant', I tend to prefer Tumblr and Pinterest; although not opposed to punctually tweet. Being multilingual, naming a favourite author, book, play or movie would be too arduous to avoid segregation of any kind. Too many styles and genres I do not wish to unfairly select… or omit. But, at the opposite of what you may think, all these do's and don'ts do not make me a pretentious chap. I am not so complicated to get along with. Try Me! Lovingly! DISCLAIMER... Rights of Passage: Age Disclaimer Warning: This blog contains mature content designed for and by adults. There are statements and images which should not be viewed by those who are not considered adults in their particular geopolitical region. If you are underage I ask that you please leave this site. Requirements for viewing this content: 1. You are an adult at least 18 or 21 years of age (according to your own local laws) and have read and understand this disclaimer. 2. You understand that the postings hereafter are of Adult Content, they may involve language, content, images and themes of an adult or controversial nature. 3. You understand that you are wholly liable and responsible for any disclosures and further responsible for any legal ramifications that may arise from viewing, reading or downloading of materials and/or images contained within this web site and that the creator, web master, and affiliates cannot be held responsible for any legal ramifications that may arise as a result of fraudulent entry into, or use of this web site and/or the materials/images/information contained therein. Copy right information: I do not own the images shown in this blog unless otherwise stated. Quotes not of my making are credited to rightful owners (where attributable). If you see anything here that is yours and is not credited to you, please contact me.

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Mary Delany (1700 - 1788), an English artist known for her "paper-mosaics" and her lively correspondence, created 950 works of botanical decoupage.

"With the plant specimen set before her she cut minute particles of coloured paper to represent the petals, stamens, calyx, leaves, veins, stalk and other parts of the plant, and, using lighter and darker paper to form the shading, she stuck them on a black background. By placing one piece of paper upon another she sometimes built up several layers and in a complete picture there might be hundreds of pieces to form one plant. It is thought she first dissected each plant so that she might examine it carefully for accurate portrayal..."

- from Mrs. Delany: her Life and her Flowers, by Ruth Hayden, 1980/2000. (The author was a descendant of Delany's sister Anne.)

Born the daughter of Colonel Bernard Granville, she was a niece of George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne. She was coerced into an unhappy marriage with the sixty-year-old Tory MP Alexander Pendarves when she was still only seventeen; her husband died in his sleep seven years later, making her a widow at the age of twenty-four. With little means and no home of her own, she spent time living with various relatives and friends. But having the social freedom allowed by her widowhood, she was able to indulge her artistic and scientific interests.

At the age of forty-three, she married again, to Dr. Patrick Delany, an Irish clergyman. A year later they moved to Dublin, where Dr. Delany had a home. Both husband and wife were very interested in botany and gardening. After twenty-five years of marriage, most of it spent in Ireland, her husband died, leaving her a widow again at the sixty-eight. She had always been an artist, but during her second marriage she had had the time to hone her skills, not only as a gardener, but with her needlework, drawing, and painting.

It was only in her second widowhood, though, when she was in her early seventies, that she began to assemble detailed and botanically accurate depictions of plants in decoupage, using tissue paper and hand coloration. She created nine-hundred and eighty-five of these works, calling them her "Paper Mosaics." She continued making them until her sight began to fail in the last year of her life. She died a month before her eighty-eighth birthday. The ten volumes of her Flora Delanica were eventually bequeathed to the British Museum.

(From the blog of artist and writer Stephen O’Donnell. He is married to writer and graphic designer Gigi Little, with whom he sometimes performs. Their book, The Untold Gaze – a collection of Stephen’s paintings paired with short fiction by 33 authors – was published in October of 2018.)