Winter

 


Winter (After Arcimboldo) by Philip Haas

Taken by Kristen Page at the Nature and Fantasy exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

"The northernmost ... was of a gnarled, woody ancient; his mouth was collapsed where the teeth had fallen out, his skin all warts and folds, eyes rheumy and peering.  He was not, however, like wood or woody or rooty (Bruno came closer) but in fact made of wood  he was nothing but an aged chestnut stump, yellow leaves or few or none for hair, his ear a broken limb's rotted bole, his lips a fungus.

"He was Winter.  Old Age.  Drought."

                                              —John Crowley, Daemonomania



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