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“19th Japanese pouch. It is a mamori bukuro (amulet) worn from an obi (sash) to protect a boy playing outside. Often containing a prayer written on paper and rice acting as a religious offering.” V&A

Miles Van Rensselaer (American, b. 1973, Lopatcong, NJ, USA) - Jari Jari Gelas Totem, 2016, Sculptures: Bronze and Glass

Oil on canvas   144.8 x 97.2 cm. | 57 x 38.3 in.

Tim White

women in red in chinese costume dramas

Drawing by Marion Mahony Griffin. © Sydney Living Museums. Griffin wrote that fairies existed as helpers to humans and recalled telling the graduating students “that the kind of thinking that made people able to function as geniuses do…they must be ready to develop that kind of thinking which would someday enable them to see the fairies.”

Hisao Karada, ‘Karada no hataraki [The Workings of the Human Body]’, 1925

Sam Johnson (Australian, b. Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, based London, England) - Photography

Roger Dean

Benoît Maire Peinture de nuages, 2020 Oil on canvas 59 1/10 × 39 2/5 in 150 × 100 cm

Mirko Hanák (Czech, 1921-1971, b. Martin, Slovakia, d. Prague, Czech Republic) - Paintings: Watercolors

Heaven Gaia a/w 2020-2021

Ercole Barovier - Medusa vase, c. 1938 (Iridized glass with applied details)

Medium: oil,canvas

The Sea Gooseberry is a comb jelly or ctenophore that has two enormous tentacles covered with adhesive cells. When tiny crustaceans, eggs, and larvae brush against the tentacles, the prey are stuck to them. The Sea Gooseberry draws the tentacles to its mouth, and it consumes the prey. These unique organisms can be found as deep as 750 m. 

masoud yasami, works from the 1980s