NOT vertigo ... but the source of VERTIGO ... i came across this pulp cover over a year ago and just decided to examine the contents with the help of ARCHIVE.ORG ... i'm only on page 30 but i can already see why Hitchcock was inspired ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boileau-Narcejac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock

intrigued by an engraving showing a satyr offering flowers to a hermit in a forest ... i made enquiries ... in what was once a popular legend, saint anthony set out to find saint paul, without any idea of which way to go ... in his wanderings he encountered a centaur, and a satyr ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_the_Great#:~:text=Anthony%20found%20next%20the%20satyr,the%20Gentiles%2C%20deluded%20by%20various

... to be continued ...

wimmin in white ... part xix ...

 the series that carries on ... and on ...

... to be continued ...

portraitist and self-portraitist francien krieg ... entering a tussle with anxiety and mortality ... and winning

 

https://www.francienkrieg.com/

https://www.francienkrieg.com/about

https://www.wg-gallery.com/

https://www.wg-gallery.com/lifebeyondtheflesh

bluestones and modes of haulage ...

 

a series of ifs ... if stonehenge stood at a crossroads of neolithic and bronze age trade routes ... if there were already large scale seasonal movements of tribes and their herds ... if there was a traditional annual migration of welsh people and their herds to and from stonehenge, maybe twice a year ... if oxen had already been domesticated and could be traded ... if the winter and summer solstices were the time for gatherings and trading and feasting in the area of stonehenge ... then there are plenty of compelling reasons why the people from west wales might have hauled a few bluestones to stonehenge every year, twice a year, using their oxen ... party on ! ... just sayin'

albert hoffman ... through the prism of time and human ingenuity ...

MY TEXT superimposed on a famous image shamelessly derived from alex grey's lovely portrait

and from XXXX??????'s clever lash-up BICYCLE DAY blotting-paper / tab-card design

Leda ... as a theme for an ornamental funerary vase ... The Apulian Red-figure Loutrophoros, Southern Italy, 350.BC-ish

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103WEG

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=Malibu+86.AE.680&object=Vase

https://www.theoi.com/Heroine/Leda.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loutrophoros

When he was fifty-ish ... William Blake got two drawing commissions to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost ... the first commission was from the Reverend Joseph THOMAS in 1807 ... the second, for a set of much larger sheets, was from Thomas BUTTS ... Wikipedia present the sets very well, although their numbering of Butts & Thomas seems to contain a transcription error at one point ... ... I'd just like to show the first and second versions that have survived as comparable pairs ......

the full text of the wikipedia article seems very helpful ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_Lost

Thomas 1

Butts 1

Thomas 2

Butts 2

Thomas 3

Butts 3

Thomas 4

There doesn't seem to be a version in the Butt set.

Thomas 5 ( ??? )

Butt 5 ( ??? )

Butt 5 ( ??? )

Thomas 6

Butt 6

Thomas 7

Butts 7

Thomas 8

Butts 8

Thomas 9

Butts 9

Thomas 10

Butts 10

Thomas 11

Butts 11

Thomas 12

Butts 12