Writes textile artist Sharon Blackman: "All my pictures are made entirely by hand using recycled textiles. I love reusing a favourite old shirt or vintage buttons and trimmings, making each artwork completely unique. I have a quirky naive style, never using patterns or templates and cutting directly into the fabric and stitching everything by hand."
To view more of Sharon's beautiful artwork, visit her website.
Image: Subject and photographer unknown.
In ancient Greek and Roman [times] . . . the male hare was thought capable of bearing young and, perhaps for this reason, was associated with both transgenderism and same-sex eroticism. The poet Philostratus writes: "And let not the hare escape us, but let us . . . catch it alive as an offering most pleasing to Aphrodite . . . the hare . . . possesses the gift of Aphrodite [i.e. fertility] to an unusual degree . . . As for the male [hare], he not only [sires offspring], but also himself bears young, contrary to nature." Men desiring other men, having "found in the hare a certain power to produce love," give hares as gifts, "attempting to secure the objects of their affections by a compelling magic art."
Image: Roman Hare Mosaic (350 CE).
Image: Subject and photographer unknown.
