5-20 Gold

velvet or silk? tea or cocoa? silver or gold? thunder or lightning? autumn or spring? moon or stars? peanut butter or jam? pancakes or waffles? vanilla or jasmine? lemon or lime? cough or sniff? cold or warm? red or blue?

Are you a rose or daisy person? Diamond or pearl person? Satin or lace person? Silver or gold person?

velvet or silk? macaroons or crepes? mocha or latte? wizards of oz or wicked? fantasy or scifi? scottish fold cat or maine coon cat? fireflies or bonfire? italy or portugal? sleeping beauty or snow white? beige or gold?

paintings or statues? mythology or fairytales? ink or graphite? marble palaces or glass castles? gold or silver? sepia or black & white photographs? intimate coffee shops or grand libraries? sketches or taped images in your journals? 

egyptian or greek mythology? fairies or mermaids? vampires or werewolves? past or future? silver or gold? books or movies?

glory or wisdom? love or power? violin or piano? fire or water? air or earth? forest or river? black or white? left or right? heads or tails? theatre or cinema? give or take? dawn or dusk? gold or silver? art or music? morning or night? venus or mercury?

moon or stars? gold or silver? strawberries or blueberries? summer or winter? rose gold or pastel blue? roman mythology or greek mythology? long hair or short hair? tv series or movies? 

This is my favourite thing at the moment

Artifacts from the Aidonia Treasure, a collection of Mycenaean gold jewellery. The collection was returned to Greece in 1996, after it was thought robbed from a cemetery at Aidonia in the late 1970s.

The first image shows stylized gold papyrus ornaments in repoussé, and the second, gold relief beads in the form of triple-leaves. The third photo shows golden relief beads in the form of lilies, papyrus-lilies, and half-rosettes. Visible in the fourth photo are gold signet rings. The left ring shows a chariot scene, and two processing women holding flowers are shown in the right. 

These artifacts are thought to originate from the Mycenaean necropolis of Aidonia, west of Nemea. 15th century B.C.E.

Courtesy & currently located at the Archaeological Museum of Nemea, Greece. Photos taken by Dan Diffendale.

Shu Pei in Glass, fall 2012.

omfg you are perfection

Odin, you are an irresponsible grandfather.

what to wear when…enduring scorching metal on hot days. when she was younger, she was convinced that she could hear it sizzling as she ruled beside her lord father, straining her muscles imperceptibly away from the scalding shell of her golden corset. but she was willing to be brave, to let it boil her alive. a metal dress was the same as a metal blade and she’d go to war armed with either. she lengthened her spine to sit still and tall like her king, waiting entire afternoons to die the midas way. she tried to reclaim her burden in her adolescence, dipping her tongue in gold syrup and painting taut bodies with her color every night. no matter how hard they scoured their skin, they were marked as hers for weeks afterward. but the thrill of ownership faded once she realized that it was never her color but the court’s. the literal and figurative weight she bore was her family’s. heavy sheaths of encrusted fabric rubbed her arms raw; slanted metal plates sliced her sides; braids dipped in gold swung from her head, bleaching blood from her temples…all for them. she had scars from being living garnish, an aureate ornament to be wielded by an unflinching family. so she poisoned them all (with lead, as a spiteful nod to the alchemists) and took to her lab to find a new color and a more permanent way to stain flesh (parts one, two, three, four, and five).