Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, through her, projects a baleful posthumous existence; she counts out the Tarot cards, ceaselessly constructing a constellation of possibilities as if the random fall of the cards on the red plush tablecloth before her could precipitate her from her chill, shuttered room into the country of perpetual summer and obliterate the perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.
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The Lady of the House of Love, Angela Carter (via lipstain) Gosh I love Angela Carter quite a lot. |
. White Fang, 2008.
Client: Editora Scipione - Brazil
Description: Illustrations and cover of Jack London’s classic White Fang, published in Brazil by Scipione. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog’s journey to domestication. Some illustrations were published over the years in books such as Communication Arts Illustration Annual 50, Taschen’s Illustration Now 3 and with my interview for Communication Arts Advertising Annual 51 PROFILE section
Am I Free Or Tied Up
“I change shapes just to hide in this place but I’m still, I’m still an animal.”
… And I’m very much afraid of the whole bloody human race… Who wouldn’t be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas? … And when I say afraid — that’s just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices, I hate their eyes, I hate the way they laugh … I hate the whole bloody business. It’s cruel, it’s idiotic, it’s unspeakably horrible … Everything spoiled, all spoiled.
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| — | Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight (via libraryland) |
