Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 42
August 25, 2021
August 24, 2021
I never did that stuff. I just started writing, so I’m no...
I never did that stuff. I just started writing, so I’m not really much of a judge. Still, I suppose as Professor in the Arts at Bard College I ought to have some kind of opinion, shouldn’t I?
I’d do whichever makes you write the most.
ekjordan:
[ID: a watercolor painting of a pomegranate on ...
[ID: a watercolor painting of a pomegranate on a plate. The pomegranate is cut open, with one half near the top of the painting and two smaller slices beneath it. A knife stained with pomegranate juice sits on the plate to the right. /end ID]
Oh gods the siren song of SketchUp calls to me…That’s a r...
Oh gods the siren song of SketchUp calls to me…
That’s a render of the stairway from Persephone’s room down to the hallway overlooking the river from chapter 18 of Receiver of Many:
Husband took my laptop to work to edit The Good Counselor, but when it comes back I should probably post some screenshots I did of the palace, and yeah maybe I’ll make a full map of Chthonia…
August 23, 2021
therkalexander:
metras:
pri0r:
Oh my GOD @safeway it is ...
Oh my GOD @safeway it is fall where the h*ck are the pomegranates
Update: Whole Foods has saved my whole ass
^ me, every single damn fall.
therkalexander:
A depiction of Persephone, Sisyphus and H...
A depiction of Persephone, Sisyphus and Hades on an amphora dated from in the Archaic period.
While Hades is seated reclined and in the background, Persephone, though seated, is active and a large figure in the foreground, meting out punishment for the former king of Corinth (Ephyra).
The early dating of this piece and Persephone’s prominence help back the theory that Persephone’s role in the Underworld was originally more important than even that of Hades. To the Mycenaeans, she was “Dread Persephone”, the “Iron Queen”, “The Mistress” of life and death.
August 22, 2021
therkalexander:
Last Days of Pompeii part 1
I went to the...
Last Days of Pompeii part 1
I went to the Last Days of Pompeii exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco yesterday. Dionysos (Bacchus) greets you at the entrance.
This is a home water basin and two clay amphora. My hand is there for scale, almost but not quite touching the glass.
A fresco featuring oh so many birds and the heads of Ariadne and Dionysos watching over the festivities of the dining hall. A blurb about how the romans ate and the differences between their socialization and the way the Greeks socialized at meals.
A shrine for household gods.
A mural of Bacchus with a calm Vesuvius looming in the background, a portent of things to come.
A chicken eating a pomegranate!
This doesn’t have anything to do with Hades and Persephone or their worship in this particular instance, but I love the image because of the through-line with similar themes throughout southern Italy.
This was a mural typical in Roman banquet halls where they would show the main dish nibbling at the foods in which it was going to be cooked. Like an illustrated recipe. In this case it’s cockatrice in pomegranate sauce.
August 21, 2021
za-ra-h:
Finished this drawing of Apollo and his golden a...
Finished this drawing of Apollo and his golden arrows.
He’s my favorite of the Greek mythos.
akins-art:
Design based on the mythos about Hades and Per...
Design based on the mythos about Hades and Persephone
