#red string

[marlodramatic]

i wanted to delete this but whatever.

this is what the livestream looked like to me

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cnetizens: This is my philosophy of love (cr 金城六zy6)

Legend has it that between you and your destined true love, there’s an invisible red string tied around both your fingers—tied there by Yue Lao月老(the Old Man under the Moon). This red string will lead you to each other. Just like this:

So in Chinese, 果 = fruit /consequence, and 苦果kǔguǒ means a bitter karmic fruit—the painful result of your own choices, which you must accept. 缘yuán means cause/dependent origination/connection/bond/fate between people, every connection is written in fate. Zhengyuan正缘 is the Right Fate — the one that heals, fits, and lasts a lifetime. Nieyuan孽缘 is the Twisted Fate — the one that obsesses, burns, and teaches you a painful lesson. That’s why people use "zhengyuan" (right fate) to describe true love that makes you a better person, and "nieyuan" (doomed/twisted fate) to refer to a bad romance that makes you obsessed yet breaks your heart.

[katarinanavane]

I've been working on this one for a while (parts of it for years). The idea is an alchemist going crazy (with the red string) trying to piece together how to make the potion the witches in Macbeth made. Many of the displayed ingredients in the Macbeth potion are real (such as slips of yew slivered in the moon's eclipse) that I have collected over the years. The piece also contains 92 individual art pieces in at least 14 different mediums, along with I don't even know how many natural curios.

[kroz-zivot-srcem]

[acefruit]

“We fell into it hard and fast in 2009, and here we are almost 16 years later.”

@danielhowell @amazingphil

my art blog

[bungleart]

[worthyprnce]

for @merwainefest's day one:

“what if you find your soulmate at the wrong time?” + red

— close ups under the cut | context in alt text

— prints of this piece are available in my shop!