#Symbolism

[weirdlookindog]

Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976) - The Woman with the Cup, 1971

[illustratus]

Allegory of Vanity by Jacopo Ligozzi

[haladriel]

Nothing is evil in the beginning THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER // EP I.I / II.I

Even you couldn't possibly believe that scrap would float!~ They say there's places across the sea a man can escape himself. Find another path. Do you know why a ship floats, and a stone cannot? Because a stone sees only downward. The darkness of the water vast, irresistible. The ship feels the darkness as well, striving moment by moment to master her, pull her under.

But the ship has a secret. For, unlike the stone, her gaze is not downwards but up, fixed on the light that guides her, whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.

~It's not going to float. It's going to sail.

[nothing-like-the-sun-jgr]

Henri Martin (French,1860-1943)

CROWN OF THORNS / THE SILENCE

HENRI JEAN GUILLAUME MARTIN

[rustandsky]

Salty Dog

[dallasgallant]

Train symbolism makes me bonkers crazy even if I’m not heavy into the musical side, that boy is still tied to trains in my mind. It’s also so prevalent across all versions of the story? It’s there in the background, it’s there to divide the town- it’s there as an agent of change.

Anyways…

Jally

There’s so many ways it could be applied and all of them make me crazy.

[kimiko24]

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

[cookedupinthelabm8]

I wanted to add to this that, although I do think that Mother Miranda adding these three black roses to the design of her overall presentation could potentially have something to do with the Dimitrescu sisters, I also want to point out a few details I personally find very important—so much so that they shouldn't be dismissed from the picture. Mother Miranda takes her title as Mother in the same way religions such as Catholicism take the title Father as a spiritual guide. Like them, she curates her physical appearance to maintain a very carefully crafted image that embodies what she represents to the eyes of the villagers she protects and rules over. Taking the title away, Miranda is a grieving mother. Miranda is a woman that never got closure for the death of her Eva. She's broken under that mask of perfection and every carefully chosen detail she allows her body to shift into. She doesn't even make herself look like she did before Eva passed—going as far as to have attempted suicide before the Megamycete found her and gave her its "gift" (Cadou, which literally means gift) and prevented her from achieving death. With this in mind, let us return to the flowers. Black roses are a potent symbol in art, literature, and culture, carrying multiple meanings depending on context. Their allure lies in their enigmatic nature, often associated with deep emotional, mystical, or philosophical ideas. Black roses often symbolize the end of a significant chapter, usually marked by the finality of death and the mourning of those who have lost what they love most. Black roses can also embody a sense of tragedy, a tragic form of love and a non-traditional, unconventional kind of beauty. Yet, they can also embody a mystery, secrecy, insidiousness and allude to a metaphor that the person wearing them isn't as they seem, signaling the individual to be hard to understand or predict. The very aspect of black roses symbolize the unattainable as well, that which you may desire but perhaps can never have. Black roses can also mean a kind of defiance against oppression—and though this initially may clash with the idea of Mother Miranda, remember that she didn't start her cult by killing the people of the village, but by protecting them from the indifference of the outside world and the lethality of the Spanish flu. Black roses can symbolize a rejection of societal norms, as well. They carry the symbolic nature of embracing one's individuality, especially if this individuality is your own darkness and potential for malice—often related to the occult and supernatural practices, that which you fear and don't yet know. They may also symbolize a sense of hopelessness, of acknowledging the futility of your cause, the inevitable doom of what you wished to accomplish—in this case, it could be how she feels with her attempts to bring back her daughter, especially if we remember her very last words when Ethan shoots her down being her dead daughter's name (and how bad she started tweaking the moment she realized the girl she was holding was Rosemary and not Eva.) Black roses can also signify a striking and timeless grace. Their stark beauty can point to refinement, elegance and an appreciation for that which is rare or extraordinary. (Might explain why Alcina wears one, as well.) Finally, the dark blooms can also work to tell you a subconscious law of what Miranda's philosophy on life and death is, or a close approximate: beauty and decay. And, despite the lost cause motif they can hold, they may also show a certain type of stubbornness, an undying hope that, perhaps if she keeps trying, she may one day see her daughter again. In conclusion, although I do think it'd be very sweet if they were meant to symbolize her hand in making the Dimitrescu daughters, the symbolism behind the black roses is versatile and evocative. It's meant to embody the beauty of contradictions and the complexity of human emotions (among other things.)

Do yall know those flowers on Mother Miranda’s collar? These?

I used to believe these to be a decoration she added to finish her whole outfit, but now that am thinking further I believe the roses to represent something else.

Ok, obviously we all know the Dimitrescu daughters and the fact that Alcina has black flowers on her dress to represent her daughters. These flowers.

And now that I’m thinking about it I do believe these flowers to represent Miranda’s making or ownership of the daughters? I wouldn’t say ownership but that’s the best word I can think of right now.

Basically what I’m saying is that Miranda represents the four lords from the crests on her outfit, and she also represents creating the daughters by the three roses on her neck. It honestly makes sense since Miranda doesn’t have any other reason to have a three-black rose necklace like Alcina besides trying to represent the three daughters through these flowers.

This probably isnt new news to anyone but I thought it would be nice to bring up. Now am trying to figure out which one copied the other with the flower theme for the daughters. Lady Dimitrescu or Mother Miranda? Funny either way honestly.

[fogmoo]

Lamb to the slaughter

[sweetlemondream]

the angel and demon on the shoulder symbolism oh im sick

[weirdlookindog]

Edward Steichen (1879–1973) - Melpomene (Sarah Landon Rives), c. 1904-05

[srslylini]

in season one when she hit the drink out of her mothers hand and it splashed against Ambessas dude, as if she cut him open

I feel that also showed her wolf side, her fight. and it also came out because of her emotions. It came after Ambessa tried to manipulate Jayce and Mel was NOT having it

I have been considering the fact that the first time we see the "wolf" side of Mel Medarda is in an interaction with family. With her brother who is not her brother. Of what we've seen of Mel thus far, we have never used violence/might. She is well versed in Vision and in Guile, but at that moment, in the Oculorum, Mel has never been more Ambessa's daughter as she is in that moment. She exercises Might, bashing not-Kino's head into the wall, and she also exercises Sacrifice. She sacrifices her desire to believe her brother is alive, her love for Kino, on the altar of her survival.

It's very symbolic and possibly even prophetic, the way she becomes Wolf in the face of someone she considers family. She is defensive to the very person she is supposed to trust. It's my opinion that this "Wolf" mindset against her family will flow into Act 3. When Mel returns and sees what her mother has done to her city, no doubt she will be inclined to become the Wolf against Ambessa. But then, in doing so she would become like her mother. But if it is for the survival of the ones she cares for, if push comes to shove, I think Mel will do what needs to be done to protect her city, even if it means turning against her family.

[cornflakesdoesart]

Little zine I drew this past sunday at the Budapest comic festival at a "workshop" , theme was spring!

[endofthestaff]

I love the symbolism in this scene. Whilst both Husk and Angel are bound and trapped by their contracts, Angel has a more messy and enveloping commitment to Valentino with some flexibility all around (being able to stay at the hotel and so on) whereas Husk is more tightly bound and his bindings are concentrated showing how Alastor has made a cleaner deal, yet Husk cannot get out of being a bartender at the hotel.

[die-rosastrasse]

First sketchbook page of the year 💘