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Being Here is Enough

Block print, 2018

by Kelly Louise Judd

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Primula

Gouache on paper, 2018

by Kelly Louise Judd

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“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou

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Ito Shinsui (1898-1972), Washing Her Hair (1952), woodblock print.

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1954. Paris, Les escaliers de Montmartre.

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Sailing the green waves.

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Charlotte Hope as Catherine of Aragon in The Spanish Princess

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Lover’s Eyes

Lover’s eyes are hand-painted portraits on ivory which were popular in England between the 1780s and 1830s. The history of this jewelry style is as juicy as the paintings are gorgeous. Since romantic love didn’t typically exist within the confines of a marriage at this point in history, affairs were pretty common. So how would you show your loyalty to your lover? By wearing a sentimental portrait of an unidentifiable part of their person, of course.

According to the Smithsonian, “One of the earliest known eye miniatures was painted in 1786 by the English artist Richard Cosway for the Prince of Wales, later King George IV. The miniature showed the eye of Mrs. Fitzherbert, the prince’s mistress.” And since just the eye of one’s lover was visible, the piece could be worn while your inamorata’s identify remained secret. It’s also been theorized that the “single eye also symbolized the watchful gaze of a jealous partner, who feared that his or her lover might stray.”