My cousin, Lorrie, lives in
Sicily. She reads this blog and noticed we like wall plaques and sun faces on our back garden wall. So she sent us something to put on it. It's a ceramic
Trinacria, the ancient -- and current -- three-legged symbol of Sicily, also known as a
Trisceli.
The
Trisceli has the three legs with three ears of wheat and a woman's head with snakes for hair and wings sprouting out of it -- clearly it's Medusa. It's the image on the official Sicilian flag (upper left).
The plaque Lorrie sent has snakes for hair, wings coming out of the head and fruits and vegetables that Sicily is famous for -- olives, lemons, grapes, berries and herbs. It is about ten inches in diameter.
Thanks, Lorrie. It's a wonderful plaque. I put it on the wall between the oars and the first sun face we got.
Click here for a slide show of all the backyard wall decor.
My cousin, Lorrie, lives in Sicily. She reads this blog and noticed we like wall plaques and sun faces on our back garden wall. So she sent us something to put on it. It's a ceramic Trinacria, the ancient -- and current -- three-legged symbol of Sicily, also known as a Trisceli.
Here is a link to a slide show with photos of the sunfaces and other artworks in our backyard right now.
When we moved to Pensacola in 2004 there was this wonderful tiki (on the left) in the backyard. It was about 4 1/2 feet tall and carved from the trunk of a palm tree. From the style and quality of the carving it was probably made by a local artist. And not mass produced in some tiki factory far away.
Here are some Tiki links:
American type designer, graphic designer and photographer, ultrasparky, is currently a master's degree student studying typeface design at the über-cool (and wildly selective) program for typeface design at the University of Reading in the UK. It's the world's top school for type design and research.
Sometimes he reports on teeny, wee houses such as the Single Hauz designed by Front Architects, his post has links to both sites.
