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Postcard, Milford Haven Collectioin, by Georges Mouton, A bare-breasted woman in pink leggings with a mask over her crotch featuring a phallic nose, lineblock print, French, ca.1903, no.25 of a series
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Postcard, Milford Haven Collectioin, by Georges Mouton, A bare-breasted woman in pink leggings with a mask over her crotch featuring a phallic nose, lineblock print, French, ca.1903, no.25 of a series
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The Demon’s Den, 1938 by State Library of New South Wales Via Flickr: by Ivan Ive They may look like devils, but these were Sydney-based magicians known collectively as the ‘Five Demons’, whose secret society was named the ‘Demons Den’. While performing their magical acts at venues around Sydney in the late 1930s and 40s they kept their identities secret, referring to themselves only as local businessmen. Three of the Demons were likely to have been the magicians Stan Larkin, Tod Barnes and Harry Job. ON 388/Box 033/Item 034 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/93QXmMo1/5DR47goPeBa6e On display @StateLibraryNSW exhibition Shot sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/shot
"we're all sleepwalkers [...] Powerful forces construct social reality - parenting, schooling, television, advertising, dress code, corporate ethos, military drill. They're all, Charles T. Tart suggests, variations on hypnosis. Mostly we walk around in a semi-trance. We want what we're conditioned to want. We're like hypotised subject who happily eats an onion thinking it to be an apple. We only believe the onion's an apple, Tart says, because we've built a mutually re-enforcing sense of reality with one another. This is known as consensual reality, or consensus trance reality. It's what makes a football result seem important, drives fashion, and causes a day to be spoiled by a make-believe tragedy in a soap opera. The implication is that we're all living a dream, a myth, and that if we don't persist, and insist on what C.J. Jung called 'individuation,' - if we don't start living our own dream and being authentic to our own deepest calling - then life itself will be sucked away by the energy vampires of consciousness. Jung surmises: 'The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world.'"
Alastair McIntosh, Soil & Soul
Stonehenge. Woodcuts, Urushibara Mokuchu 漆原木虫, 1910s.
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Photograph of Toby the dog, who performed in the Punch & Judy show performed by Professor Bert Codman (1902-1969) at Colwyn Bay. Photograph taken for the Manchester Evening News and Chronicle. Undated, but probably taken on the occasion of Toby's last performance, 12 September 1968.
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Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883–1957). Evening at the Kamo River in Kyoto, from the series Selected Views of Japan (Nihon fūkei senshū), 1923.
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Tokuriki Tomikichiro, Cormorant Fishing. Woodblock print, c. 1960
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Mask, part of 'Caporal' (Captain) costume as part of Bolivian Morenada dance costumes. Oruro, Bolivia.
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