{In the borrowed costume for the Buffoon's Wife from Chout, with cane-stiffened felt and cotton, c. 1921, and a Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) for assured good conversation, especially for @milly_sleeping.}
{One of several new Salvaged Relatives for @milly_sleeping, In the borrowed costume for the Huzzar, c. 1933, from Massine's Le Beau Danube, with a Himalayan snowcock (for good measure).}
{Silk. Metal thread. Glass beads. 'Essence d'orient' pearls. Metal. Painted silk lining. And a three-toed sloth. All for @milly_sleeping. In the borrowed costume for a Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov for Diaghilev's Saison Russes, c. 1908, with a three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus).}
He lived and died 'a favourite of the gods'. For he was a pagan, and a Dionysian pagan — not Apollonian. He loved everything earthly — earthly love, earthly passions, earthly beauty. Heaven for him was just a lovely dome above a lovely earth.
(Letter dated 30th of August, 1929, Nouvel to Stravinsky, quoted in 'Serge Diaghilev and the Strange Birth of the Ballets Russes', Geoffrey Marsh, Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909 – 1929, edited by Jane Pritchard, V&A Publishing, 2010, p.26.)
If one must languish, this is how it should be done.
Replica sashes and silver tissue at the ready! Especially for Leah and Janette of Milly Sleeping, a suite of brand new Salvaged Relatives on cabinet cards have been made, well-supplied with toucans, stuffed with various rodents, and capped with a barrel of assorted monkeys. Modified costumes from The Sleeping Princess and Chout grace the forms of the unknown cast rescued from obscurity, and they are currently being made into a limited edition series of small prints for December’s glorious celebratory haze.
Exclusive to Milly Sleeping, they will be in store by the end of the week, seeking to delight and tempt. Do stop by and see.
Visit
Milly Sleeping
157 Elgin Street, Carlton, Victoria
And, as Louise recently posted, lest you missed our recent newsletter, a December sale is in full swing. From now until the end of the month, revel in our 30%-off everything sale.
Simply use the promo code ‘DECEMBER’ upon checkout.
(Thank-you for all of your sale orders so far. It keeps the fingers nibble, warms the cockles, and feeds the Next Project kitty.)
{Monday's drawing board. To glue and later pick a quartet for Milly Sleeping. (A favourite four, Leah?}
{Too many giddy choices, @milly_sleeping. Let's make it a sextet, Leah, beginning with a woman and her toucan.}
+ You're invited to the ten year celebrations and launch of Blindside's publication, To the left and back some, designed by the two of us, and edited by Verity Hayward and Raymonda Rajkowski. This Thursday the 4th of December, 6 – 8pm, at Blindside, Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
+ A Beastly snippet reveals Great Auks and likely sorts.
+ Monday morning's transformation. Percy conjures Caravaggio.
+ 1, 2, 3, go! A new residency space, Dickinson House, for writers and artists in Belgium (@MIELbooks).
