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OCTOBER

Willard Metcalf - October (1908)

Efim Volkov -  October (1883)

Alfred Sisley - Evening in Moret, End of October (1888)

John Everett Millais - Chill-October (1870)

Willard Metcalf - October Morning, Deerfield (1917)

J. W. Godward, The Old, Old Story, 1903

1934-1936 Silk taffeta evening dress (made by unknown, USA)

(Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens)

The Journal of the Museum of Comparative Oology, Vol. II (1922)

An arts and crafts oak armchair by Liberty & Co, c 1900. Made of oak, leather upholstered top rail,  pierced splats, moulded seat, pierced arm rests, square tapered legs linked by stretchers.

Gaby Deslys by Etienne-Adrien Drian, 1910

‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, August 31, 1952

I do appreciate what Cathy Hay has been doing of late. Her last video made me really emotional.

She has been trying to recreate the Peacock dress, designed by Worth and worn by Mary Curzon in 1903. It's a 10 pound chiffon dress of woven silver and gold thread.

Frankly, the embroidery is far more beautiful than its design.

But she's found it difficult to recreate, to say the least. The embroidery was done in colonised India, when The British Empire controlled and took credit for everything. And let me tell you, some of these Indian ateliers had a lot of people working on a single piece, because the designs are so intricate and elaborate.

And so, recently she's been more outspoken of the fact that British colonisation really enables these wealthy western Europeans to wear gowns that almost look impossibly beautiful, but rightful credit was of course never given to the people who made it. Cathy started talking about this during the height of media coverage of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protest. She said she was reflecting on her position in the world and the lens through which she saw the Peacock dress.

So Cathy Hay has been researching it's history. And she eventually found out the name of the man who owned the work shop that made it. Kishan Shand from Delhi. It was a firm owned by Manick Chand. And more importantly, she found a sketch of the men that worked there, around the period the embroidery probably would have been done. It was most likely those very same men.

And I just felt this lump in my throat. I always wonder about the craftsmen behind so much of history's most beautiful art. They're never named because the one who commissions the work, the patron, is usually given all the undue credit. We still don't know the individual names, but we have a sketch of their faces.

Strawberry postage stamps from St. Pierre and Miquelon, Brazil and Sweden 🍓

Konstantin Vasilyev (​Russian, 1942--1976)

René Lalique for House of Worth. Perfume bottle Dans la nuit (In the Night), c. 1924.

Max Planck before (1878) and after (1901) founding quantum theory.

Conclusion: quantum physics causes damage to the hair and consequently to the individual.

Evening dress ca. 1913

From the Göteborgs stadsmuseum

The Lure of the Garden (1911) - Hildegarde Hawthorne

Estee Lauder collectible vintage enameled rabbit powder compact

'Arianne' by Xavier Gosé, 1913

Vesuvius, Andy Warhol, 1985

Screenprint 31 ½ x 39 ¼ in. (80 x 99.7 cm)

eyes in art by nell brinkley 🌙