the dark threat of absence fragmented and sliced

From Stamps Bot

🗡 Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles. v.4. London, Printed for the Proprietor and sold by H. D. Symonds, 1808. Original source Image description: Illustration from an 1808 natural history book showing five fish species. The focal swordfish is depicted with an elongated, straight bill and streamlined body, labeled “Sword Fish FIG.101.” Above it is a sawfish with a long snout lined with teeth, labeled “Saw Fish FIG.102.” To the right of the sawfish is a gudgeon with a short, rounded body and distinct fins, labeled “Gudgeon FIG.103.” Below the swordfish is a turbot with a flat, broad body and spotted pattern, labeled “Turbot FIG.104.” To the left of the turbot is a mackerel, elongated and striped, labeled “Mackrell FIG.105,” and a tunny or tuna fish with a sleek, torpedo shape, labeled “Tunny FIG.106.”

We HAVE to figure out what's going on

by Feodor Rojankovsky; from Scaf le Phoque (Scaf the Seal), 1936

Listened to this while drawing another Fitzjames

Talking Heads

— my scan of lorraine bracco and james gandolfini from one of my british magazines (the eye), c. 2004 (picture taken 1999)

(Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest)

The art of arranging marine algae into designs, bouquets, and even sometimes intricate little scenes, was surprisingly popular in the 19th century. See an album of such pictures by a woman named Eliza A. Jordson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/album-of-seaweed-pictures-1848