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Schlafende Ariadne by Michael Triegel, mixed media on canvas, 2010

On show - together with his totally creepy portrait of Ratzi - at Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany, until February 6, 2011

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From the series Agent Orange by Philip Jones Griffiths (via WMMNA)

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Just two recent findings from Spitalfields Market.

Yes, those are doll-sized ice skates and yes, that’s an original Cyprane® inhaler.

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bewitching:

puppet:

via blog-imgs-47.fc2.com

EDIT: By Satomi Hirota (thanks, sleetwealth)

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A small part of today’s Spitalfields finds. I particularly like my Perspex Jesus®. He’s more 80s and arty than thou cause his crucifix is made of perspex and yours isn’t. Amen. Also, Dave Gahan and I are currently writing him his very own theme tune, yo.

Not pictured is one of the VILEST purchases I’ve ever made: A porcelain figurine of a child mermaid looking dangerously constipated. Its gruesome stare destroyed the camera so you just have to trust me that it’s so horrific you really don’t want to see it.

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Shocking! I completely forgot to bore you all with my Spitalfields update last week. So here’s two weeks worth of exploits (I’m on a strict budget…):

- Mechanical monkey of doom

- Two very beautiful newbies in the doll family (I lovingly call the head “Pol Pot Jr.”)

- An always useful hand clip

- A “pot” box to go with my “snuff” box.

YAY!

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Busy times here at Wurzeltod HQ. Following the correlative rules of the Teutonic laws of multi-disciplinary hyperefficiency, I decided to go for changes on all fronts, in housing, career and relationship because if I’m heading for a nervous breakdown it’d better come now and with a certain degree of gravitas and heroism.

Anyhow, so it seems I totally forgot to go to Spitalfields yesterday, so here are (some of) the findings from the previous week:

- Carved Black Foresty stag head shelf

- Broken and burnt doll’s head with intact eye mechanism (woohoo!)

- Pearlware/creamware plate from around 1810, I reckon (it has the characteristic blueish/greyish shine, so I’m confident it’s pearlware)

- Barr, Flight & Barr plate from pre-1840, I presume, because it seems they stopped production under those initials afterwards, but I know next to nothing about ceramics, so please do enlighten me if I’m wrong. At any rate, it would make my dear friend Ernst Haeckel proud. :)

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Spitalfields Treasures, May 20, 2010:

It’s obvious that the doll and/or the chaps in the painting will try to kill me each and every night from now on, but the hell with it - it was all worth it! :)

Photo © Wurzeltod, 2010

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Lady Lily being epileptically adorable…

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foxesinbreeches:

cendrars:

directactioniswitchcraft:

(via saintwire, oliviaphoenix)

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This is strikingly familiar (and is tangentially giving me a demented urge to cultivate myself an ensemble exactly thus to wear for a delightful day of pedagogically discussing post-colonialism with 80s-fashion-reviving 18 year-olds who ask whimical questions about whether vagina dentata is real), but I can’t quite place it. …Anyone?