Serena Blair

An image of a raku fired vase that has a tiered pedestal. It has shimmery irridescent greens, gold, blues reds and violets and some matte black areas from the reduction material.

A close up view of the lower right portion of the same vase where you can see the blues/purples and reddish hues.

A view of the other side of the vase.

This is a photo of the raku process. Several vases being placed in the flames, in a reduction bin. They are all on fire, as is the material in the bin.

Inspired by the cosmos. Born from the flames of raku. A symphony of light and movement captured.

'Skyfire' draws it inspiration from the shimmery irridescent greens, reds, golds and violets of the northern lights.

A photograph of a cluster of small white flowers worth yellow centers

I found this beauty in the Estero Americano Coast Preserve above Bodega Bay, California

Fremont’s deathcamas
(Toxicoscordion fremontii)
#flowers #bloomscroll #photography #art

Not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses. It's an ugly design for pervert glasses and makes it too easy to be a pervert. I would prefer technology to make it more difficult to skeez, creep or perv on the world. I would like tech to protect me from creeps, not smooth the runway for them.

A circular terracotta relief featuring a face with a wide grin and its tongue sticking out. The face is framed by wavy, snake-like hair.

A terracotta antefix with the head of Medusa, the snake-haired creature whose sight turns everyone to stone.
Medusa’s head was a popular motif and used to ward off any evil.
Antifixes were used to conceal the ends of the tiles that ran along the edge of roofs. Ca. 480 BC

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The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

Panelled doors with cross wing like design.

Music Room doors of the Behrens House
#Mathildenhöhe #Darmstadt #Germany
1900/01

Made by H. E. Eggers of Hamburg in wood, aluminium & bronze.

Displayed Institut Mathildenhöhe, Städtische Kunstsammlung Darmstadt

#AdoorableThursday
#MetalworkThursday
#Jugendstil #ArtNouveau

Detail of a Roman tomb wall with a semicircular painted lunette showing faded red and blue figures on a white background.

New discovery: A large burial ground dating from the Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity has been uncovered in Rome’s Ostiense Necropolis during pre-construction works.

cultura.gov.it/comunicato/2...

Rare Roman altars acquired for the nation will go on display in the autumn | National Museums Scotland News Two spectacular stone altars from a Roman fort near Edinburgh have been acquired for the National Collection ahead of a major exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. The rare carvings are among...

This will be interesting to see
media.nms.ac.uk/news/rare-ro...
#history
#archaeology
#scotland
#romans
#edinburgh

A well-preserved Roman leather shoe with elaborate cutout patterns. The design features a high ankle and open section

An adorable #Roman shoe, made for a #baby too young to walk. The shoe imitates the footwear of Roman soldiers (caligae). The cut-out design would have shown off the kid’s socks!

From Bordeaux, dating 1st/2nd AD.

📷 Bordeaux, Musée d’Aquitaine

🏺 #archaeology

Hyacinths copyright Julia Wilkinson. #hyacinths #photo #bloomscrolling #pinkflowers #flowers #Julia #juliawilkinson #photography

Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.

Irene Rice Pereira, White Lines, 1942
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135295

Time for some happy! Hayden Park, Greensboro! I am so proud!

A raku vase in yellows, reds, blues and purples with an abundance of texture. There is a wave of red running vertically up the side of the vase in view.

A raku vase in yellows, reds, blues and blacks with an abundance of texture. There is a wave of black running vertically up the side of the vase in view.

A closeup of a raku vase with yellows, reds, blues and purples with an abundance of texture.

3 raku vases placed into the reduction container among flames

A little magic for your Saturday.

Within the kiln, where flames rise,
Draconis wakes with molten eyes.
Across its skin, raku fire streams,
A creation forged from potter's dreams.

From earth and flame its power is cast
Ancient breath in clay held fast.

#pottery #eastcoastkin #art

A photo of two purple flowers.

#FloralFriday #BloomScrolling #FlowersOnFriday #Photography #FlowerPhotography #TheLostCoast #WestCoastKin #TheWildImages #Flower #PhonePhotography
#WestCoastPhotographers #FlowerScape #NaturePhotography #MacroFlower #MacroPhotography

No one believes those who constantly lie. Seeing a pattern of them covering up murders takes away all credibility. Nazi germany also murdered disabled people.

Ugo Riva: Anima.

Alexander Calder, 1941

Doctor Strange, by Mike Mignola, 1986.

6 mugs in one image. The first on the top left is blue and has a cat as a handle! The next to the right is intergalactic themed. To the right (and last in the top row) is a brown and blue mug called Spring Moss. In the bottom row, is a blue, red and brown mug with dotted clay. In the middle is another brown and blue mug with a more delicate handle. On the bottom right is a delightfully purple mug made of porcelain.

New mugs are heading into the kiln soon 🔥

To make room, most of the remaining mugs are now $65, shipping included.

If one’s been calling your name, this might be the moment to bring it home.

And if not, a share always helps. 🙏

The yellow moon is lit up by the setting sun below it. The moon is set upon a deep grey, cloudy background. Midway down the photo yellow and orange bands meet a deep dark horizon line that fills the lower half of the image in an inky brown/black.

Sometimes I can’t believe this is real life.

Posted especially for Mike’s mom. Photo taken February 14, 2026, near Beegum Gorge, #ShastaCounty, #NorthernCalifornia of a Parish’s Nightshade flower. These guys bloom all year round, but the new flowers are just around the corner. #wildflowers #photography #nature

rock with lichen

listen, girls need pockets because we need a place to put cool rocks and shit

Goodspeed Opera House reflecting across a melting Connecticut River.

East Haddam, CT.

Alf better watch out, he is probably a groper perv too. Isn't that a requirement to be in Trump's cabinet?

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

my god right i KNOW it's a fossil i UNDERSTAND but it also CLEARLY DEMONIC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

Photo taken February 14, 2026, near Beegum Gorge, #ShastaCounty, #NorthernCalifornia of some lichens growing on a road cutbank. From a distance, they look like they are one color and smooth, but when you look closer, that is not the case. #photography #nature #FungiFriends #fungi #lichens

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is