Something you don't see everyday
Jun. 13th, 2006 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonHere's yesty's quote and the illustration. But I noticed something about this painting I'd never seen before:
The entire background is a giant face. The cave on the right is one eye pit, the shading and head of the witch is the other, the column of smoke is a nose with the two crows behind it serving as nostrils, and the cauldron and fire pit making a hellmouth. Given Victorian sensibilities about such things, I'm sure this isn't an accident. I don't think I'm just nuts. Or maybe this has been evident to everyone but me. It's even more evident when you view the picture in miniature:
In other news:
This new story, "The Heart of the Western Tide," has an unusual voice for me: omniscient and...baroque. I can't tell if the baroque style is amusing (as intended) or just plain annoying. I'm going to let it proceed, though, and not judge until it's done. It is an enormous amount of fun, intentionally over the top, but we'll see what we'll see. The voice seemed to come with the package deal as it arrived out of the dreamtime.
The right brain is a strange and marvelous place.
The entire background is a giant face. The cave on the right is one eye pit, the shading and head of the witch is the other, the column of smoke is a nose with the two crows behind it serving as nostrils, and the cauldron and fire pit making a hellmouth. Given Victorian sensibilities about such things, I'm sure this isn't an accident. I don't think I'm just nuts. Or maybe this has been evident to everyone but me. It's even more evident when you view the picture in miniature:
In other news:
This new story, "The Heart of the Western Tide," has an unusual voice for me: omniscient and...baroque. I can't tell if the baroque style is amusing (as intended) or just plain annoying. I'm going to let it proceed, though, and not judge until it's done. It is an enormous amount of fun, intentionally over the top, but we'll see what we'll see. The voice seemed to come with the package deal as it arrived out of the dreamtime.
The right brain is a strange and marvelous place.