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Symbols of the Ancestors from folk embroidery and weaving, Belarus, drawing by M.S. Katsar.

- Image source - MagPie (aka Olga Stanton)

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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it - that is art.

~ Hans Hoffmann

Artwork: The Contemplator by Eugene Carriere (1846-1906)

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Author: Helene Cincebeaux

"Moravian Slovak wedding apron; satin stitch embroidery on batik chintz, made about 1920 possibly in Milotice near Kyjov. My great aunt said it took a whole winter to make such an apron; she said they made a sketch on paper and then just started embroidering. Each one is a masterpiece made by village women who were true artists - bringing the flowers of their garden to bloom on their aprons all year long. The white band is intricately embroidered and I love that nothing has to match - they just tossed in what felt right!"

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"Those dreams that wake you suddenly from sleep are showing you what you are ready to bring to consciousness. They say, "Here is where you are bravely working; here is the realisation of your questions; here is your awakening.""

- Dreamwork with Toko-pa

Photograph by Paolo Roversi

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"Echoes of Myth" by Alan Spazzali

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(via Trypollian Bathhouse - Dmitrii Voloshin's Blog)

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“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Artwork by Serbian painter, Vladimir Dunjić

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The Westray Wife (also known as the Orkney Venus) is a small Neolithic figurine, 4 centimetres (1.6 in) in height, carved from sandstone. It was discovered during an Historic Scotland dig at the Links of Noltland, on Westray, Orkney, Scotland, in the summer of 2009. It was the first Neolithic carving of a human form to have been found in Scotland, and to date it is the earliest depiction of a face found in the United Kingdom.

~ Wiki

Westray Wife - Wikipedia