Tag Archives: iconography
Nepal: Where Everest is King (of the currency)

Up until 2007 the Nepalese rupee featured a portrait of the King of Nepal. This is in keeping with other…

‘Abuela Grillo’: a beautiful animated short about rain, rights, and restoration

Abuela Grillo is an animated short directed by Denis Chapon and featuring the voice of Luzmila Carpio. It is, perhaps,…

Preserving a traffic cone: Glasgow’s statue topping tradition is under threat.

What is heritage? Is it the physical remains of the past? The literal, tangible objects of art? The physical bits…

Einstein and the Hopi

Earlier today I posted a photo on twitter that I came across. It shows Albert Einstein with a group of…

Blessings of the “dark” Virgin of the lake OR Copacabana, where the cars wear lil’ hats.

I’ve spent the past two months in Bolivia and this weekend I was in Copacabana, a beautiful and ancient town…

Lord of the Rings remains and A Very Hobbit Christmas in Middle Earth

I am often in New Zealand…at least more often than I am in various other places. While here I tend…

The Lady Eve: 1940s Amazoniana

It should come as no surprise that I thrive on historic western impressions of the Amazon. I don’t think I…

The Poe I didn’t know

This week I read The House of the Seven Gables for the first time and have been googling daguerrotypes like…

Ode to Andean Leaders in Indigenous Garb

Over the weekend I got myself characteristically worked up about Perú’s impending run-off election between “Cancer and AIDS” to quote…

Marie Antoinette Markers and Costume Continuity

I’ve always found ‘dressing up’ to be a remarkably complex activity. It is also weirdly divisive: love or hate, you…