#circe wright

[dorothywonderland]

"She had us in just two words"

[reesoliloquy]

“I learned to braid my hair back, so it would not catch on every twig, and how to tie my skirts at the knee to keep the burrs off. I learned to recognize the different blooming vines and guady roses, to spot the shining dragon flies and coiling snakes. I climbed the peaks where the cypresses speared black into the sky, the clambered down to the orchards and vineyards where purple grapes grew thick as coral. I walked the hills, the buzzing meadows of thyme and lilac and set my footprints across the yellow beaches. I searched out every cove and grotto, found the gentle bays, the harbor safe for ships. I heard the wolves howl, and the frogs cry from their mud. I stroked the glossy brown scorpions who braved me with their tales. Their poison was barely a pinch. I was drunk, as the wine and nectar in my father’s halls never made me. No wonder I had been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.”

-Madeline Miller, Circe

-Painting: Circe by Wright Barker(1889)

[tigermousse]

"Circe" by Wright Barker

[bangarangjames]

[laithesque]

Circe, by English painter Wright Barker (1889). Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.

[pigs-in-art]

Circe by Barker Wright. Inscription reads

Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around; Now prone and grovelling on unsavoury ground.

[tweedfrog]

*sad violin music plays because you and the rest of your war buddies have been turned into animals by a beautiful island witch goddess*

[geekynichelle]

As a kid I had project were we dressed up as/basically RP'd a figure from mythology to pretend to be interviewed to show off what we knew. I can't remember if I picked Circe or got assigned Circe, but probably on the long list of reasons I am the way I am. 

The original painting I used as a reference was by John Wright Barker. Pigs are cute but I ended up only keeping three of them, because I don't enjoy drawing them. I made her dress red because I wanted her to stand out more/as a small Hercules animated series reference. The animated series is honestly even more inaccurate in the most fascinating* ways compared to the movie, but Circe was voiced by Idina Menzel/has a fun little musical number, so there's that.   

*Sometimes terrible  

[lemuseum]

[embervoices]

Nature, red in tooth, claw, and, uh petals...

Circe, 1889

Wright Barker (1864 - 1941)

[daugterofliterature]

"Circe" by Wright Barker

[laurelwen]

Monstrous Love - a Like Minds Valentine's Day Web Weave

[Like Minds Aesthetic Masterpost]

Card 1 - Enemy: Pierre Corneille - The Cid // Hélène Cixous - “The Perjured City” // Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal // Louise Glück - Timor Mortis // Khalil Gibran - The Forerunner Photo 1: Agustín Gómez Arcos - The Carnivorous Lamb Card 2 - Love: Leigh Bardugo - Rule of Wolves // Marie Howe - The Addiction // William Golding - The Lord of the Flies // Micah Nemerever - These Violent Delights // Crimson Peak Photo 2: Steve Kowit - Eurydice Card 3 - Violence: Elaine Kahn - Romance // unknown // Frank Iero And The Future Violents - Violence // Schuyler Peck - Horoscope for the heartbroken // Madeline Miller - Circe Photo 3: tr. Andrew Miller - Paulos // Anne Sexton - The Papa and Mama Dance Card 4 - God: Emery Allen - Holy Things in This World // George Seferis - Stratis the Sailor among the Agapathi // Andrew Joseph White - Hell Followed With Us // Rilke - // Charles Wright - Clear Night // Saniyya Saleh - A Million Women Are Your Mother Photo 4: Tumblr user normal-horoscopes Card 5 - Heart: Blythe Baird - If My Body Could Speak // Natalie Diaz - Wolf OR-7 // Richard Siken - Dirty Valentine // Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World Photo 5: Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Card 6 - Monster: Fortesa Latifi - ? // Maguerite Duras - ? // Natalie Diaz - Postcolonial Love Poem // Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Rumi Photo 6: Victoria Chang - Obit // Florence + the Machine – I'm Not Calling You a Liar Card 7 - Devotion: Margaret Atwood - Hesitations Outside the Door // Robert Louis Stevenson - Olalla // unknown // Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles // Leah Horlick - For Your Own Good

[talonabraxas]

Circe Talon Abraxas

Circe, sorceress divine, I claim your witchery, making it mine.

Everywhere I look, I see bold statements of sovereignty erupting, from truth telling about sexism to new ways of practicing the Craft of the Wise. Indeed, this is Circe's voice coming through these individuals. Witches everywhere are feeling drawn to the Original Witch like never before. We are Kirke after she left the island, fully able to claim our power and change the world with our witchery. Like her, the powerful men, desperate to cling to all they possess, strive to keep us isolated. With Kirke's power, we shall no longer succumb.

[clya-lyren]

Delilah Briarwood as "Circe" by Wright Barker

for @artists-guild-of-exandria's most recent project

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Circe

Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape Dosso Dossi (1525) Ulysses and Circe Angelica Kauffmann (1786) Circe John Collier (1885) Circe Wright Barker (1889) Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses John William Waterhouse (1891) Circe Invidiosa John William Waterhouse (1892) Circe Beatrice Offor (1911) The Sorceress John William Waterhouse (1913)

[rikastrology]

nakshatras as art: dhanishta

1. "Salome" Henry Regnault

2. "L'Odalisque" Adolphe Weisz

3. "Circe" Wright Barker

4. "Poem of the Soul - Sunrays" Louis Janmot