Studies For The Death Of Antigone

Whimsical fans are not talked about enough

linocut relief print by molly white

Terracotta Bust of Isis-Aphrodite Ptolemaic Egypt, c. 300-30 B.C.

"'Will Not Let Die': Debilitation and Inhuman Biopolitics in Palestine" in The Right to Maim, Jasbir Puar

the girl with a pomegranate (1875)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

"'Will Not Let Die': Debilitation and Inhuman Biopolitics in Palestine" in The Right to Maim, Jasbir Puar

I’ve been listening to “Blood Moon” by Saint Sister a lot this season and it inspired this piece of a spooky Minoan Artemis dancing in the woods. 

“Dionysus is powerful because he is a god; but in myth, at least, the god conceals his divinity in order to impress his presence all the more forcefully on mortals. In his mythical epiphanies, he exercises his destructive power from a position of apparent weakness and inferiority… the punishment he inflicts is often indirect, deceptive and designed to hide his presence and downplay his power; unlike Apollo or Artemis, he does not kill his victims through direct divine intervention, but relies on those self-destructive drives within their human nature that case madness, self-mutilation or transformation.”

— Albert Henrichs, “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus