elektra rex

'this necklace designed by louis comfort tiffany, c. 1910, is made of favrile glass beetles set in gold' in the jeweled menagerie: the world of animals in gems - suzanne tennenbaum + janet zapata (2001)

The Hell's Mouth, according to the Winchester psalmist from circa 1150

[Neverafter - Brennan Lee Mulligan]

oil, collage, digital print, 2023

The White Rose by René-Xavier Prinet (French, 1861–1946)

Gustave Doré, The Destruction of Leviathan (1865)

“Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon” (1832) by Utagawa Hiroshige

Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902)

René Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899.

On the underskirt, the thing that looks like a baguette with wings is actually a heraldic symbol of a thunderbolt! It was genuinely imagined like a "bolt". The zig-zagging lines on the skirt might also represent lightning - note the little triangles that look like arrowheads on the bottoms of the lines. The rings appear to be almost an ouroboros: two snakes biting one another to form a loop. I can also see flames of fire, and what MIGHT be some kind of insects at the intersections of the lines? Let me know what you think they might be! Lots of snakes, and she's holding a caduceus (snake on a stick), which is weird, because that's the symbol of Asclepius, god of healing, which is not an underworld symbol at all. And what's with the cloud on top? I wonder if that's actually supposed to be a TREE with a snake around it, representing the serpent in the Garden of Eden? Her brooch appears to be a head of Medusa, with serpents for hair.

The Breeze, Ron Schwerin, 1988.

Jiang Miao —Taoist Trinity and the Self (acrylic on aluminium board with carving, 2022.09.2)

The rainbow is underestimated, Piero Percoco

Leonora Carrington, The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot (1946)

“Charlie” ⦿ Lola Dupre — mixed-media collage

july is for knights. paper collage, 2026

found in: art deco fashion | masterpieces of art (by gordon kerr)