✨Venus Noire✨

Akeem Smith

The Lijadu Sisters, 1979

Lucite box purse designed by Joyce Francis (sold)

Zimmerman, Michele Melcher

Joan of Arc – John Everett Millais // Mosaic of the Archangel Uriel in St. John’s Church – James Powell and Sons of the Whitefriars Foundry // Sancta Lilias – Dante Gabriel Rossetti // Milky Way Upon Giewont – Henryk Szczyglinski // Folio 13v – from the Rabula Gospels // Representation of a Deer’s Antlers – Sándor Szapary de Szapar // Not Strong Enough – boygenius

🌬️ perfume pngs!!

(No. 3, 4, 6, 8, & 9 are Tube-dwelling anemone larva. 1, 2, & 7 are Cerinula larva of Cerianthus. 5 is a Pyrosoma. Source is Ryo Minemizu.)

(1. Tiffany vase from 1879, 2. “Paradysz Gärtlein” by Johann Arndts 1600s, 3. Antique sterling silver tea ball, 4. Hematite var. Kidney Ore, 5. Amulet/medal (?), 6. Early 1300s modillion from the Peratallada castle, 7. 1500s silver and gold watch attributed to Oliver Cromwell, 8. Ladybug (“Your House is on Fire”) by Elizabeth Goluch, 9. Pewter teapot from c. 1900.)

Iris agate slice PNGs.

(1. Pocket watch, 2. Costume design, 3. Mask, 4. Costume, 5. Sculpture of a child being stung by a bee, 6. Costume, 7. Moon face prop, 8. Illustration by Sascha Schneider, 9. Costume hat (?))

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Pt.2 of “HELLO, My Name Is…” by Nadia Lee Cohen

Joyce Lee, 2022

Giovanni Alberti c. 1596-1602, ceiling decoration in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican

𝖇𝖆𝖇𝖞 𝖋𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉 𝖈𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖗 created by Abel Emmanuel