Saturday, April 6, 2013

Dolorosa... Self portrait as a mask... 2013




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             Dolorosa ~ Self Portrait as Mask no 8 of 9 ~ 2013 Pastels and pencil on pape 12 x 9 inches



Thursday, April 4, 2013

Comte de Lautréamont (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870)...Happy Birthday...




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Chants de Maldoror illustration  Hans Bellmer 1971


Pale hair in thick windings
Crackled in shadows horribly;
And behind, in rough, long hummings
There unreeled, according to species and size,
The animals of the earth and of the heavenly circlings.















Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Hans Christian Andersen...Happy Birthday... Picture book...1869




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Hans Christian Ørsted's Picture-Book was made in 1869 by Mathilde Ørsted and Hans Christian Andersen.



'' If a marble city with golden roofs had lain before him he would not have
been astonished, his imagination was prepared for anything ''

H C Andersen ~ Only a fiddler


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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Dolorosa... drawing.. new issue Paraphilia Magazine's Periodical / AD Hitchin




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Dolorosa  ~ Pen and ink gouache ~ 



In the beginning, all beginners were alike.
All organisms are areas of tension descended from a common vaginal ancestral gene pool.



Published in new edition of Paraphilia Magazine with writing by A.D. Hitchin





Sunday, March 24, 2013

Filippo Ferroverde...Cartari’s Handbook of the Gods...1615



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Mexican god from Codex Rios juxtaposed with Egyptian gods and hieroglyphs



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Francisco Agüera Bustamante...La Portentosa vida de la muerte...1792



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The earliest documented example of skeletal imagery in Mexico’s literary culture is thought to be the etchings accompanying the tragicomic protonovel, La Portentosa vida de la muerte, published in 1792 by Fray Joaquín Bolaños and illustrated by Francisco Agüera


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Léon Ferrari...'Hell'...digital print 1995/6




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Drawing by Yaparí, Guaraní Aborigine + Set of Scales = 'Infierno', dibujo de Yaparí, aborigen guaraní + Balanza de dos platillos

more HERE