I spit and chew and bite

[sovay]

This cat picture is not mine; it comes courtesy of of teenybuffalo, who found it on Tumblr:



I was prepared to love this image despite its likely origin as an outsider's sendup of the suffrage movement, but then it turned out to have been an actual suffragette Christmas card, which is even better. derspatchel says he can see "Hestia marching, festooned with violets, hoisting a banner aloft with her tail, ready to pounce on any police resistance." Mice and roses, they sing. Mice and roses.

(The actual song "Bread and Roses" causes me to tear up for reasons I do not entirely understand, because I cannot remember ever singing it as a child or communally, but it turned up as a spontaneous and formal expression of workers' solidarity in a scene in Pride (2014) and I disintegrated.)

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I took a few, emailed them to nineweaving; I'll ask her to forward to you. After I started snapping with my phone I realized the artist might not actually like that and stopped, embarrassed (and it was crowded---these were the thing everyone wanted to stand in front of and stare at). The "sold" items area on the Etsy shop has some of the same masks I saw, but they aren't all there. There were several kinds of the "memento mori" mask with a skull and mottoes visible beneath a cracked face, a couple of commedia-esque faces, and one with a city-crown that seemed to be associated with the sea-people.

There was another guy there making waves and ripples out of wood. He doesn't seem to have a website and his work didn't photograph well, it was very tactile. It was a really interesting set of artists.

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[sovay]

I took a few, emailed them to nineweaving; I'll ask her to forward to you.

Thank you!

and one with a city-crown that seemed to be associated with the sea-people.

If it was a classical mural crown, you see it sometimes on rivers. (I associate it most with Tyche, but I am not the mask-maker.)