previous Martin Erich Philipp
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Arthur Rackham...the Wind in the Willows..illustration..Satyr
"Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Kenneth Grahame
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Satty... The illustrated Edgar Allan Poe
another scan from a favourite book ....
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Yet, for a while I saw; but how terrible an
Exaggeration! I saw the lips of the Black-Robed Judges.
The Pit and the Pendulum ~ Edgar Allan Poe
previous SATTY
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Sascha Schneider... Wood Engravings ... 1896
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The Mammon and its slave
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Around a Soul
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Pinax microcosmographicus...Johann Remmelin & Hara Sanshin ...Flap books
Johann Remmelin's Pinax Microcosmographicus 1667
Japanese version of Johann Remmelin's Pinax Microcosmographicus. Copy made by Hara Sanshin, 17c.
more early Japanese anatomical illustrations HERE
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Dolorosa... new drawing 2011 & Ithell Colquhoun poem...
Dolorosa ~ Arch Old Inquest ~2011
Sent Away
Sent away
By Light of day
I return
When candles burn
Ithell Colquhoun
Saturday, November 26, 2011
František Tichý & Gerard de Nerval ...Chimeras 1949
Front cover illustration by František Tichý for Chimeras by Gerard de Nerval 1949
Gilded Verse
And so! Everything is sentient!
-Pythagoras
Man, free thinker! You think you alone think
In this world where life splatters everywhere?
You're free to dispose of your charge,
But the firmament's gone from your schemes.
Respect the spirit that moves in beasts:
Every flower a ghost that opens to Nature,
Every alloy harbors the secrets of love;
“Everything is sentient,” & everything can change you,
Fear the eyes in blind walls,
Even dead matter is infused with a verb,
Don't use it perversely.
Even in the shunned ones lives a secret god,
Like a nascent eye obscured by its lids,
A pure spirit blooms behind the veil of stones.
The Chimeras ~ by Gerard de Nerval translated by Translated by Mark Lamoureux
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