A Beetle Tattoo Spreads its Wings in Tandem With its Owner’s Arm

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How are you feeling? By David Shrigley

To her neighbors in 19th century Baltimore, the mycologist Mary Banning was a witch-like “toadstool lady”, known for boarding trolley cars with her arms full of slimy, putrid-smelling specimens. Many Americans once regarded mushrooms as unsightly and uniformly poisonous. Mycology—the study of fungi—was no pastime for a woman. Though Banning would identify 23 new species and complete one of the first guides to the mushrooms of the New World, almost no one in her day knew of her discoveries, or about the striking illustrations she produced in her self-financed home laboratory.

BRÜCIUS #HAECKEL (at Black Serum)

Details, part I; Claude Paradin: Devises Héroïques, 1551.

Cy Twombly - Apollo (1975) (at Arts District of Los Angeles)

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Leonora Carrington - The Palmist

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dragonfly riding snake

From The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1886.