experimenting with image association

—Felix Salten Wenceslaus Hollar’s Three Butterflies and a Wasp Catrin Welz-Stein’s Cocoon Stephen Mackey’s Madame Honeysuckle Catrin Welz-Stein’s Inkognito “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” —Gertrude Stein pink sweet peas circa 1920 Penelope Neil’s still life “Out of perversity we join hands.” —the Lolligags bas-relief of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus by Amy LeFeuvre

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea...”

“... by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red & brown...” “... till human voices wake us, & we drown.”

—T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

† ‡ † —Belladonna of Sadness

“Delenda est belladonna!”

Rogelio de Egusquiza’s Tristan & Isolde Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus Henry Fuseli’s Nightmare Vincenz Georg Kininger’s Dream of Countess Marguerite of Flanders, based on Salvatore Viganò’s ballet Richard the Lionheart The Soul Hovering over the Body by William Blake for Robert Blair’s poem, The Grave Le déséquilibre amoureux by Colette Saint Yves Edward Gorey’s The Gilded Bat Alla Nazimova in Salomé Erté’s The Golden Pearls