Artworks By Yasunari Ikenaga

“The combination of that brilliant brain and fragile body is very loveable. She has a sweet and childlike nature, from which her intellect is completely separate. I have never known anyone who was so profoundly sensitive, and who makes less of a business of that sensitiveness.”

Vita Sackville-West, describing Virginia Woolf, from a letter c. August 1928

Full Moons 2023

And Then We Danced (2019) + mirror reflexions

More photos from the beautiful project Ένδυμα ψυχής - Raiment of the Soul / A Voyage Within, a collaboration of the National Historical Museum of Greece with photographer Vangelis Kyris and Bulgarian embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev, in which they present the folklore collection of the museum - outfits often belonging to important historical figures of Greece - through a series of photographs and embroidery art. The project, which consists of 120 photographs in its entirety, has been published in a photographic album you can buy from the shop of the museum. Link here.

Traditional dress of Kérkyra (Corfu) island.

Attire from Argos, Peloponnese, 19th Century.

Dress from Hydra island, owned by Kyriakoula Kriezi, wife to Greece’s Prime Minister and Admiral Antonios Kriezis. 19th Century.

The vest and the legendary helmet of Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770- 1843), the General of the Greek War of Independence.

Attire of the famed beauty Katerina “Rosa” Botsari (1818-1872), daughter of war hero Markos Botsaris, and lady-in-waiting in the court of Queen Amalia of Greece.

Attire belonging to Dimitrios Voulgaris (1802-1877), kocabaṣı of Hydra island, then fighter in the Greek Independence War and later 8 times Prime Minister of Greece.

Traditional dress from Astypálea island, 19th Century.

A kid’s attire from Archangelos of Rhodes island, 19th Century.

See more gorgeous photos here and here.

& if I were to forgive you (& I know I could) who would be left who would be left                          to forgive me?

— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Afterwards,” published in Hobart

When trips to Mars become possible, we should put Golden Tickets in Mars bars.

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