nature chews on me

Anahit Yu. Khudaverdyan's article

Figure animalière sur une production culturelle du groupe Aluku, en Guyane. Le serpent est animal privilégié dans la cosmogonie des peuples Marons et Amérindiens de Guyane. Le serpent se retrouve régulièrement dans les productions artisanales et artistiques. Chez les Aluku, il est à la fois le symbole du féminin et du masculin. Plus largement dans les traditions afro-diasporique, comme dans le sèvi Ginen (vodoun ayitien), il peut être associé a des esprits ou des divinités. On retrouve aussi le symbole du serpent sur des productions matérielles du peuple Akan (Ghana).

Try this at home with this nifty step-by-step guide!

Also to clarify, “unfolding” a heart isn’t as simple of a procedure this drawing makes it seem - you have to first dissolve the collagen scaffolding that keeps the heart intact, theeen be extremely careful during the separation process in order to keep the pathways intact. But that wouldn’t look as cute as a drawing :P

A priest and a priestess in a ritual attitude. 2nd cent. A.D. Piraeus, Archaeological Museum

Medium: Glass, Gilt metal

musée du Louvre

St John the Baptist medieval church, Inglesham. A series of paintings, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, cover the walls often with one painted over another, in places seven layers thick. While it is not always easy to puzzle out the subjects, you can see fifteenth-century angels above the chancel arch.

Currently located at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”, Bright Dead Things

Eve's Bayou (1997), dir. Kasi Lemmons

God doesn’t answer out here

This is a simple method of constructing prime numbers using geometry.

From: Timothy C. Ely, The Flight into Egypt: The Third Magnitude, (sewn binding with leather spine and silk two-tiered endbands; made with sand from Abu Simbal, acrylic, thread, and foil), 1985 [Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA. © Timothy C. Ely]

The Apollo Necklace, Henry Wilson (1864-1934), 1904