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William Blake, 1757-1827, life mask made in 1823: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake: from Proverbs of Hell, c. 1789
Life [?] or death [?] mask of Unknown Woman: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
John Keats, 1795-1821, life mask: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
Life [?] or death [?] mask of Princess Tolstoya, 1800-1873: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, life mask made in 1815: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
[Life mask of] Unknown Woman, a "cautious type" i.e. possibly suicidal: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, life mask: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)
The death masks are so evocative.
ReplyDeleteIs it me ... Wordworth and Coleridge seem so very similar?
Blake, just as imagined, and Keats, so at peace, at last.
Don,
ReplyDeleteThe masks of the poets are life-masks.
(Eyes closed to keep out the plaster.)
In the cases of two of the women, it's less certain that they are life-masks.
But yes, tranquillity.
Well... Blake, hmm.
(Phun with phrenology, Francis Bacon.)
Ah, life masks, thanks, Tom.
ReplyDeleteVery expressive.
The first thing that comes to mind (and stays there like the visages in the masks) is that these are simply unbelievable to see. Curtis
ReplyDeleteWow. Stunning.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of seems appropriate-ish: "resine"
I forgot to hit "follow-up comments" per usual but that gave me the soiste I needed so it's all good.
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