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"You are not you – you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream – your dream, a creature of your imagination. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions…" #FaustianFriday
"Because this is just what a nightmare is. Walking about among people you know, looking in their faces – and suddenly the faces change – and it's not someone you know any longer – it's a stranger – a cruel stranger." #FaustianFriday
@RembrandtsRoom I have an early C20th clay molding [R] of the 'woman with a wimple covering her mouth'. I couldn't find out anything about her until I visited the house of a Polish artist many years later & spied her more recent version.
When Marco Polo returned home after two decades travelling, the stories he & his brothers told were dismissed as outright fiction, until (legend goes) they sliced open the hems of their garments, & 100s of gems poured to the ground in a glittering cascade. #WyrdWednesday
To protect a child from being kidnapped by the Mamuna (a Slavic spirit), a mother would tie a red ribbon around her baby's wrist, put a red hat on its head, & keep it out of the moonlight. Other preventative methods include not washing nappies after sunset… #FaustianFriday
In 1955 Andy Warhol was commissioned to produce weekly ads for shoe brand I. Miller to run in the New York Times. The captions (handwritten by his mother) were based on popular sayings or catchphrases, where the original subject is replaced with the word 'shoe'. #ShoesInArt
Leonora Carrington: And Then We Saw The Daughter of The Minotaur (1953)