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In 1815, 15 years before he made his most famous print, The Great Wave, Hokusai published three volumes of erotic art. In one of them there is a woodcut print known in English as ‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife’ and in Japanese as ‘Tako to ama’, ‘Octopus and Shell Diver’.
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Be quiet, they get scared easily
Canoe
(from here)
Hemels gewelf
100
Again
- “All that he doth write / Is pure his own.” So a 17th-century poet praised William Shakespeare. This is not actually true.
- This month, Hogarth Press published the first entry The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson in a new collection of novels by today’s major practitioners that each rewrite one of Shakespeare’s plays.
And all of this makes sense.
Chiseled
Cloud
Swirl
Istanbul-based artist Sena Runa first explored the craft of paper quilling three years ago while looking for a hobby to fill her spare time. Runa quickly discovered a talent for color and composition when working with paper and it wasn’t long before she began selling pieces online. Her distinct quilling style developed so rapidly she was soon able to quit her job in HR to pursue the craft as a full-time endeavor earlier this year. You can see more of her work onFacebook. (via My Modern Met, All Things Paper).
Mother
After witnessing the destruction brought on by hurricanes in Thailand, the Southern U.S. and around the world, Italian sculptor Lorenzo Quinn began creating a series of sculptures titled “Force of Nature”. Made from bronze, stainless steel and aluminum, the sculptures, full of life and energy, depict mother nature hurtling planet earth around in circles. The powerful and furious image is meant remind us of the power of nature and what Quinn describes as our “false sense of security” towards it.
