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Hughes, Grace Greggory
@hughesgracegregg.bsky.social
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Here for the art, prose, poetry, magic, and musing. Nonbinary, they/them.
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🎨 Bronze mirror with a stand in the form of a draped woman (Greek, Argive,
mid-5th century BCE) The MET
The figure of a woman, suggestive of Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, forms the stand of the mirror. A dove rests in the open palm of her outstretched hand. Two cherubs, or winged Erotes, hover above her on the lower edge of the round-faced mirror. There is a small hound chasing a hare up each side of the mirror’s frame, and a flower grows on both sides of a siren, part bird, part woman, perched at the top.
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Landscape with a Cave. Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (French, Chaumes, Nièvre 1798–1871 Lyon), oil on canvas. The MET.
A dark cave entrance can be seen at the base of what is possibly a mountain, though it is out of frame. The visible rock face is painted in brown, amber, and gray hues with greenery in the background and on the topside of the cave. The sky is blue with only a hint of white cloud on the far horizon. Tufts of green moss are visible around the cave entrance.
September 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Geometria XXIIII, by an unknown artist referred to as the Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian 1460's), engraving. The MET.
Geometry is here personified as a pregnant woman with one hand on her belly and the other drawing a square, a triangle, and a circle in the sky. She is hovering in a cloud, god-like, above a landscape scene consisting of a river with birds, a river bank, rolling hills with gently triangular peaks, and the more rugged base of a rocky mountain.
September 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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🎨 Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Greek, Attic (ca. 470–460 BCE), The MET
Large dark burgundy jug with the figure of a kneeling winged being concentrating intently on the work in their hands carved in a much lighter contrasting shade.
September 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🎨 String of 46 Cowroids (cowrie-shaped beads) Inscribed with Various Hieroglyphs including the ankh (life), nefer (beautiful or good), and maat (truth). From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, New Kingdom period, Dynasty 18, The MET
String of light blue, turquoise, sea green, cowrie-shaped beads.
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🎨 The Triumph of Truth over Envy, Etching and aquatint with gold leaf by Maria Catharina Prestel (1781) German artist, The MET
A complex scene unfolds in the clouds. The figure of a woman dominates the chaos beneath her. She is pulling a man’s hair. The man is unclothed and entangled with a serpent. A monstrous beast with clouds spilling from its mouth is next to his knee. The colors are brown and shadowed orange with dusty gold highlights.
September 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🎨 A Muse of Poetry, Graphite and chalk on paper by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (French, 19th century), The MET
A pencil and chalk drawing of a woman in a sheer gown holding a lyre. The image is on paper the color of parchment framed in gray, bordered in cream on a pale gray background.
September 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🎨 Tulips in bloom (2000) Zhou Zhongyao, Chinese contemporary artist ink and color on paper scroll www.artnet.com/artists/zhou...
The view is overflowing with tulips in bloom. The blooms have a gradient tone from white to pale pink to dark pink and thick green foliage on a pale lime green background. They give the impression of a flowing river of flowers or of a flower dragon moving through in the landscape.
August 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🎨 猫石花卉 (Cat Stone Flowers) by Zhou Zhongyao, Chinese contemporary artist
A cat with white to honeyed-orange toned fur stalks the bees visiting the flowers blooming all around
August 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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🎨 Moon by Annie Stegg, oil painter, artist, illustrator inspired by mythology, folklore, nature, and 18th-century Rococo art
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Black cat with big beautiful peridot eyes and discretely folded large leathery bat wing surrounded by green foliage. A large moth in warm brown hues alights nearby and a crescent moon is perfectly aligned overhead. Moon flowers bloom up the left side of the composition.
August 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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🎨 The Owl King (2025) by Angie Livingston, The Glittering Fox
An owl perches at the top of a megalith in a snowy landscape. Capped standing stones are in the background. The sky is full of stars and the full moon. The owl is luminous, surrounded by gold foil like a full body halo. Gold accents form a labyrinth-like spiral on the megalith beneath the owl’s feet and on the stars in the night sky. Two birds glide in the distance.
August 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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There is a stone called Staurolite, also called a Fairy Stone or a Fairy Cross, that I just think more people should know about. It appears in nature as a cross formation. Its influence is subtle but significant, and it’s really quite incredible to work with.
Fairy Cross in a mica schist matrix
February 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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“Jung says the appearance of two of a kind in dreams [or as symbols] shows a duality or conflict. The doubling effect shows that something is close to consciousness.”

— Jean Dalby Clift and Wallace Clift, Symbols of Transformation in Dreams, 1987
Book Cover. Symbols of Transformation in Dreams | Jean Dalby Clift and Wallace B. Clift A red background with gold lettering. The upper half of the background is illustrated with the image of a sentient investigating a knot of concentric circles.
February 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Today is the feast of Saint Lucy, a fascinating character with connections, resonance, and associations with Frau Holle, Mother Christmas, The Deer Mother, and the angel Lucifer, among others (See Merry Midwinter by Gillian Monks). 1/

🎨 Saint Lucy by Angela Sasser
An angel wearing a wreath with lit candles on her head and holding a lit candle in her hands. She wears a red cloak, red sash, and white gown. One wing is outstretched with the impression of an eye in the tip of each feather similar to a peacock’s feathers.
December 14, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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A Sacred Conjuration

In this episode, Alexa St. James begins to explore the theme of headlessness found in the tapestries and Zoen conjures an extraordinary being. 1/🧵
Text on a floral background with a white unicorn at the center— Uncommon Tapestries: Scene 2 A Sacred Conjuration Scenes of desire, fear, history, current event, myth, legend, fable, poetry, charm, and story intermingle freely here threaded by fate with the strings of will. Each tapestry can stand alone, but together they make a wondrous treasury of days. hughesgracegreggory.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Pandora (1914) oil on canvas by Odilon Redon (1840–1916) French symbolist artist. This work is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 813, bequest of Alexander M. Bing, 1959.
The nude figure of a woman stands at the center of an elaborately floral background with a box in her arms. Innocence and paradise.
November 22, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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Woman Clothed with the Sun (1904) pastel on canvas by Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931), artist, playwright, patron of the arts

🎨 Smithsonian American Art Museum
Blue and gold color palette. Blue background with a golden woman wearing a glowing gown in the foreground. A ring of stars surrounds her head like a halo.
November 21, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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McBride is taking some criticism for not “fighting back,” but I think there’s wisdom in her response and choice to conserve her fighting energies to use in her own time rather than according to the whims of her enemies. She’s focused on the constituents who voted her into office. 7/
Nancy McBride official statement
November 21, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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For example, here is @aoc.bsky.social in an interview with @joyannreid.bsky.social. She emphasizes pre-election anti-trans Trump ads: “Harris is for they/them. Trump is for YOU,” but fails to note the soup of disinfo about trans people this message was delivered in. 3/
November 21, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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About a month ago, the Narrator, Alexa St. James, the first character readers encounter in Uncommon Tapestries, received an invitation that they could not refuse as follows:

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🎨 Detail, "Millefleurs" Tapestry with Animals (detail), Belgium (Flanders), c. 1530-45, wool and silk tapestry weave.
November 13, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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“Uncommon Tapestries is a work of fiction. It opens the moment eyes land at the top of the page where it immediately begins to interact with realities beyond its borders.”

Please enjoy this short introduction:
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White text on a square blue background. Uncommon Tapestries: Introduction Scenes of desire, fear, history, current event, myth, legend, fable, poetry, charm, and story intermingle freely here threaded by fate and the strings of will. hughesgracegreggory.substack.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:46 AM