Wladd Muta.... Graphic Works... Golden Scarab 2011

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Maman Brigitte ... Jessica Grote, poem & Claude Saintilius, art.

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Maman Brigitte by Claude Saintilius

~~ Our Lady of the Cemetery: Maman Brigitte ~~

The Face of Death

Ruby-red drops of blood mix with the white flour. The strong

alcohol is still burning in her throat. Passion overcomes her,a

yearning, a desperate physical hunger, spreading her legs wide

open, shivering through her body. She wants to embrace...the

Dead. 

Fixing her gaze on the purple candle, raising it high

above her head, she whispers... Maman... Ma mere... An irresistable

urge has her pouring the purple wax over her body

while calling out to HER...

You are walking down the long and sparely lit hallway.

Following a noise, a whisper, the distant echo of MY voice.

It is cold, you are alone and yet you know we are all around -

waiting for you.

Treading on the path of the unknown, you feel fear, my child,

I know.

Be brave, go ahead, follow MY call, open that door.

I am over here, standing below the willow on that old cemetery

Yes, it is music coming out of this crypt. Have a look, go inside,

you will see strange rites but also merry dancing and laughter.

Dance with the Dead, my child! Dance with my children!

Do not take yourself too serious!

I am the Mother of the Dead and we are everywhere. In fact

everyone is a walking Dead.

So why not laugh in the face of Death?

by Jessica Grote ~October 2010 excerpt from Atua

Eric Drooker... Crucified Woman...

more at Drooker.com

God's man... Lynd Ward... woodcut ...1929

Gods' Man is a novel in five parts, published in 1929

previous Lynd Ward

Ex Libris... L'Horla ...1922

Aztec Idol ... Vitzilipuztli ... bookplates 1700s

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A. Aveline  - 1720

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1725

Hokeah, Jack (1902-1969) ... paintings

Buffalo Dance 1929

War Dancer 1929

Greeting of Thee Moon God 1929

Chasing  Evil Spirits 1929

more Jack Hokeah at Kiowa Indian Art  in the C Szwedzicki Collection

Gio Colucci... book illustration... The Torture Garden..

illustration from Octave Mirbeaus Torture Garden 1925

from The Torture Garden, written by Octave Mirbeau in 1899

Works of Art.... Skull and Devil... Japan

Ivory okimono of a scull (tokotsu) entwined with a serpent, Meiji period (1868 - 1912)

worn by members of the underground dokudo (later yakuza), because they believed it brought good luck to gamblers. In the Meiji period the best-known carver of this subject was Gjokuzan.

Carved ivory netsuke signed Chiyuki 之, Japan, Meiji period, turn of the 19th century

 

This  netsuke depicts a typical stylized devil Oni

They come from the Buddhist pantheon and appear in many folk stories. In this comical stylization the umbrella is used instead of the kanabo steel club. The eyes of the devil are made of mother-of-pearl and were inserted by the technique ji ita hamekomi.

Kyle Fite ... drawings & woodcut

Choronzon

Therion

Vision of St John

more wonders at the artwork gallery here > Starfire Publishing

Ex Libris... Aliona Volcholk

Robert Taylor... Pen & Ink drawings and Poem...

Rose ~ pen and ink

Sri Yantra for the Kali Yuga ~ Pen and Ink

 

Flower of  Freya ~ Pen and Ink

The Pointillist

In the gathering indigo of evening
at the twilight of the day,
as ghosts of blue smoke be rising
from chimeys red and grey,

an ink-besmeared drawing board,
testament to lonely nights
of labor-intense endeavors
where his patient work is wrought.

The small key rolls the tumblers
of an oiled, aged lock
that opens the door to stillness.
He feels for the light switch
to vanquish the dark.

Alchemist of the stipple-pen
in his black kitchen of art,
pursuing the endless journey
from ink to pen to dot.

His hair now streaked with silver,
Myopia dims his sight.
His years in dots are measured,
subtracting from his life...

more wonders here at the Red Salon