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Ex libris Margl Ferencnek | Ex libris for Ferenc Margl

A Halisten Stúdió szülinapi játékán három nyeremény közül választhattak a kommentelők, közülük sorsoltunk nyertest. Feri lett a szerencsés, aki ex libris tervezését választotta, én készítettem neki pecsétet. A bélyegző egy peritont ábrázol, akik “az Atlantiszon élnek, félig szarvasok, félig madarak. Szarvasfejük és szarvaslábuk van. Ami a testüket illeti, megfelelő szárnnyal és tollazattal rendelkező, tökéletes madarak.” Aki szeretne utánajárni, Jorge Luis Borges Képzelt lények könyvében megtalálja e becses állatot.

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Halisten Studio had a birthday promotion, the winner is Ferenc Margl, who chose ex libris design from the three offered gifts, I designed a ruber stamp for him. This is a peryton, a mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. If you wish to know more about this creature, read the description in the book of Jorge Luis Borges, Book of Imaginary Beings.

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What do you think about when you think about killing? I think about God. Good and evil? Good and evil has nothing to do with God.

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my participation for the character design challenge.

HADES

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Dionysus is powerful because he is a god; but in myth, at least, the god conceals his divinity in order to impress his presence all the more forcefully on mortals. In his mythical epiphanies, he exercises his destructive power from a position of apparent weakness and inferiority… the punishment he inflicts is often indirect, deceptive and designed to hide his presence and downplay his power; unlike Apollo or Artemis, he does not kill his victims through direct divine intervention, but relies on those self-destructive drives within their human nature that case madness, self-mutilation or transformation.

Albert Henrichs, ‘“He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus’ (via elucipher)

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Illustrator & Artist:

Kayla Kinoo

“Cerberus”

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achilles the sad burrito: a photoset

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The First Cut by Jacqueline Rush Lee 2015

Transformed Harvard Loeb Library Translation of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”
H7.75″ x W5.5″ x D6.5.″ Photo: Paul Kodama

One of two works commissioned by Robert Bolick, curator of Books on Books.

The Metamorphoses is Ovid’s epic poem about “bodies which have been transformed into shapes of different kinds.” With motifs of violence, punishment, reward, pathos, and lost speech dwelling within this classic tale, Ovid writes about human feelings in the face of the awful and the tender, the terrifying and beautiful, the violent and loving.

Jacqueline Rush Lee has worked experimentally with the book form for over seventeen years. You can check out her tumblr here. 

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You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.

Hélène Cixous, Laugh of the Medusa (via archaeologicals)

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HERAKLES : Gods are stubborn. So am I.

Euripides, Herakles (tr. by Anne Carson)

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The Fates. Alice and Martin Provensen.