Monthly Archive: December 2006

wringing water from her hair

Thoranih (ธรณี) Sanskrit-Thai. Mother or goddess of the earth. She appears as a witness of the Buddha’s accumulated merits from earlier lives, just before the moment of his Enlightenment. In art usually depicted wringing...

when a website is not a website

LOTS to look at here: Artists’ Books Online Stumbled across it looking up the word “paragonnage.” (Google: Did you mean: parsonage) This comment sounded strange: How is this site different from a website? A...

figures of description

These words might come in handy someday: topographia – Description of a place. astrothesia – A vivid description of stars. prosopographia – The vivid description of someone’s face or character; or, the description of...