Tag: Vintage
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Jungle Love
To speak of jungle love is to speak of lawless love, and few if any rival that from a Wild Western in this genre of romance. Among the Western love stories, the most legendary is that of Bonnie and Clyde, having crossed cultural boundaries to capture the world’s imagination. It is said that Serge Gainsbourg…
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The Jaguar
As the lion is of the desert and the tiger of the jungle, the jaguar reigns supreme in the woodlands of the Americas. Equal in fierceness to the Asiatic tiger, the jaguar possesses enormous strength, with jaws powerful enough to pierce through the skull between the ears, delivering a fatal bite to the brain. These…
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The Water Lily
“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.” – Matthew 6:28 In his Sermon on the Mount, while speaking to his followers upon their anxiety about clothing, Jesus evoked the image of the flower lily. Particularly notable is his skillful…
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Jackie’s Cotton Shift Dress
When peace and prosperity returned after the long years of World War II, Paris reigned again as the arbiter of high fashion, and the powers that be were turning their eyes toward a race into space, a young lady would emerge to become the epitome of glamor, who captivated the public eye as an American…
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Blackwork
Blackwork is the term for impressing design patterns onto the skin with black, sometimes red, color pigments, including temporary dyes such as henna and tattooing dyes such as soot. Produced with combs, needles, and cutting tools, using techniques such as hand-tapped, hand-poked, skin-cut, and skin-stitched, numerous societies practice blackwork to express cultural identities, rituals, histories,…
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The Gold Leaf Bride
Tying the knot for love appears to be common sense today, but it has only been a mainstream concept within the last century. In the history of marriage, the focus is about collaboration – to join forces in order to improve one’s lot in life. In patriarchal societies where men largely inherit power and wealth,…
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The Tail of Spring
When April showers, the air smells warm, damp, and earthy. This particular wet earth scent is called geosmin, or petricor. It is excreted by soil bacteria to advertise food to springtail, an insect-like organism, who spreads the spores by carrying them along. But it’s not only attractive to the springtail, humans are extremely sensitive to…
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The Ides of March
“Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In ancient Roman times, the ides marked the full moon of each month. Since their calendar began with March, it was the first full moon of the year. As the ides were sacred to…
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Danaë
In 1898, the literary critic Hermann Bahr wrote in the journal Sacred Spring, “Our art is not a combat of modern artists against those of the past, but the promotion of the arts against the peddlers who pose as artists and who have a commercial interest in not letting art bloom. The choice between commerce…
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The Snake
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”Genesis 3:4-5 Thus Eve eats the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,…
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