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Snowfall

In Christmas, sledging, Snow, winter of '47 by Kate Innes18th December 2014

The UK winter of 1947 Delight, adventure, chaos.  Snow for children is the suspension of the ordinary, and the re-imagining of the landscape into one of slide and speed, crunch …

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The Virgin’s Breast

In breast feeding, Christmas, Mother Goddess, Rogier van der Weyden, Virgin and Child by Kate Innes10th December 2014

St Luke drawing the Virgin by Rogier Van der Weyden, circa 1435 Musée de Bruges St Luke may be a self portrait of the artist. “That’s what breasts are for, stupid,” …

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The Kakapo

In conservation, Diorama, Kakapo, Mark Carwardine, Poetry, taxidermy, Yale Peabody Museum by Kate Innes4th December 2014

Kakapo at the Oxford University Natural History Museum Kakapo You my flightless bird undiscovered, green as grass, large and quite absurd. Being a child in the 70’s and 80’s in …

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Guarding the Gateways

In Ancient Near East, Assyrian Art, Citadel of Sargon II, Concealed shoes, Lamassu, liminal places, The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Kate Innes26th November 2014

The main gate to the Citadel of King Sargon II Many years ago, I was lucky enough to be an apprentice in the Department of Ancient Near East in the …

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The Serpent of Creation

In Animal Symbolism, Creation Myths, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Medieval Bestiaries, Snakes by Kate Innes17th November 2014

Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526 in the Courtauld Gallery, London I have been fascinated by the use of animals as symbols in art for many years. …

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Grendel’s Mother

In Beowulf, Grendel's mother, Monsters, Old English, Poetry by Kate Innes11th November 2014

From the Beowulf Manuscript, BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV, f.132 Sometimes a poem comes to me, and it is like meeting an old, dear friend unexpectedly.  But sometimes a …

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Artists and Hunters

In Cave Art, Hunting, Ice Age, Isturitz, Paleolithic, Poetry, Reindeer by Kate Innes3rd November 2014

                                         Reindeer from Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France To enter a cave …

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The Chameleon

In animals, Chameleon, William Blake, Zambezi, Zimbabwe by Kate Innes27th October 2014

Twenty years ago in the Zambezi valley of Zimbabwe, my husband-to-be gave me a present: a small and unimpressed chameleon he had found near the clinic where he was working. …

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The Goldfinch

In Ashmolean Museum, Bartolomeo Montagna, Carel Fabritius, Donna Tartt, Mauritshuis, Poetry, The Goldfinch by Kate Innes21st October 2014

Het puttertje (The Goldfinch) by Carel Fabritius 1654 in the Mauritshuis, Den Hague Every day for more than fifteen years, I have looked at a print of this painting. Now …

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Words of the Naturalist

In commonplace book, Darwin, Galápagos, Marine Iguanas, Poetry by Kate Innes16th October 2014

Galápagos Marine Iguana by Charlesjsharp – Own Work Some time ago, I came across an extract from the Commonplace Book kept by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle …

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