[pwlanier]

Guild sign of the nail forge

18. /19. Century

Iron, painted; double eagle and attached heart lined with many nails

IM Kinsky

[jareckiworld]

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) — Message for Mercy [oil on board, 1950]

[sesiondemadrugada]

Janko Domsic.

[yr-efydd-ger-yr-afon-wyre]

Source

[throatoftheworld]

The Ermine Hunt by Leonora Carrington, 1954

[holopics]

turkey vulture

[woundgallery]

Berlinde de Bruyckere, The Black Horse series «K36»2003 (back view)(foam, horse skin, wood, iron)

[antiqueanimals]

Norman Knott (Anishinaabe) (1945 - 2003)

[pwlanier]

Pottery Human Figure with Snake Body, Southern Song Dynasty, 13th Century. Unearthed from Xiangshanqiao in Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Courtesy Alain Truong

[namtaf]

▶︎ Unearthed Forms | Gent1e $oul & Finally Julius | Fast Castle

[memories-of-ancients]

Shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli game board, city of Ur, Sumer, circa 2450 BC

from The Penn Museum

[portalibis]

Sol, Lead votive plaque, Roman, probably 3rd century CE

[transistoradio]

Claude Cahun (1894-1954), “Self-Portrait (The Mystery of Adam)” (1929).

[harmonyinbllue]

Two Sphinxes III, Rae Klein

[aeide]

test weaving of penelope's tapestry on the chiusi skyphos:

reference:

there are some adjustments I need to make for tension, but I'd like to make the next version into a header band for a warp-weighted loom so I can try weaving the whole pot, including telemachus and penelope.

[postcardaday]

Trial proof for The Blue Feet, Kiki Smith, with adapted text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2003.

[rosieandthemoon]

by Alfred Jacobsen, 1906