I’ll get some good pics later but I am DONE. That is 12x19 inches of solid hand embroidered satin stitch. One full year of work. Two very tired hands.
memento mori
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just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
Beauty by Zhyreb
Head of a Dog by Edouard Manet 1876.
Lei Xue: 'Drinking Tea' (2009)
Smashed Cans Sculpted and Hand Painted in the Traditional Style of Ming Dynasty Porcelain.
[ID: 5 photos of statues shaped like crushed soda cans. They are made of porcelain and painted with blue dragons and clouds /end ID]
[caption plaintext: Smashed Cans Sculpted and Hand Painted in the Traditional Style of Ming Dynasty Porcelain. /end plaintext.]
New piece! Am calling her “Skör” (fragile in Swedish).
Assembled from strips of lace, a doily, and some fiddly needle lace and crochet for the teeth. Starched with diluted wood glue.
Perfect in time for Halloween!
when you get down, down to the sub-atomic part of it
that’s when it breaks you know, that’s when it falls apart!
