ice calligraphy and alternative medusae

[asakiyume]

On Christmas Eve, there were messages written in a loose, accomplished hand in the ice. I can't read them, but the Snow Queen's Kay could--he was studying that language, I hear.





Some days later, Little Springtime had a college interview with an alumna of the institution in question who happens to live locally. They met in a coffee shop. The ninja girl and I tagged along. I edited and she doodled, but then I finished my editing, so I doodled too. She doodled a Medusa and remarked that snakes for hair wouldn't necessarily be ugly--just rather alarming. I wondered how other things for hair might be. Birds, for instance, or knives. Later I thought, what about dogs' heads? (or wolves or foxes. canids.) Here are those alternative medusae (with one inexplicable fish head in among the canids in the third second):

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

The ice looks like a tag, which I find endlessly amusing.

For a moment I thought you said snails for hair, which would be a little bit messy, but kind of cool. Snails in the hair? Hm.

I have somewhere a photo of a Voudoun practitioner with kitchen knives woven in his hair. It's rather striking.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

The ice looks like a tag, which I find endlessly amusing.

Yes! I had the same thought. :P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Let's see the graffiti artist who tags in ice!

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

It would be funny if the inspiration went the other way. Graffiti artists jealous of fey ice writings stole the style but had to make up new meanings.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have somewhere a photo of a Voudoun practitioner with kitchen knives woven in his hair. It's rather striking.

I'll be it is. Now I want to draw that.

As for snails for hair, that's how they describe the Buddha's hairstyle in classical sculpture:



And how about this, from Deviant Art:

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That's a thing in the world! Wow.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Right? The world is a craaaazy place.

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

Wow, really?! I guess I always assumed they were curls...

Also, my wedding hairstyle looked a lot like that, without the snails, sadly.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I do think they **are** curls, but that they described them as being like snails (and then that artist on Deviant Art decided to imagine it literally).

Do you have very curly hair, that you put up in a bun for your wedding?

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

That ice looks startlingly like graffiti tags. I see "EARS" in the first one. :P

This post reminds me of yet another entry I wanted to make for you, as it were, about water runes. So many things to do...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

cucumberseed said the same thing--I agree! It does look like a tag :D

I eagerly await your post! (But don't rush. I love everything you post and will wait.)

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

That is SO PRETTY.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I thought so too! Amazing what's out in the world.

[judo100.livejournal.com]

It really does look like writing. "Help, I'm being held captive in the tall grass!" perhaps. Or "Miller Life" as another possibility. You should write back, see if you can get an exchange going.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe "Asakiyume was here"?

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Nature is speaking to you through ice tags. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The ice fairy gang claim that patch of the marsh :-)

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

When I first glanced at it, I thought the picture was of one of those six-pack holders.

Messages between the fey, perhaps? I took a picture of a bucket with cryptic not-really-writing on it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Did you post your photo?

The ice does kind of look like six-pack holders!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Cool! Looks like fairy modern art!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes--ice Jackson Pollock!

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

I'm quite proficient in Ice, especially the northern dialects. It says, "Don't step on the momraths." :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I shall endeavor not to crush the momraths!

[threestarblue.livejournal.com]

that is so neat it looks fake. i love it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's hard to believe it's a natural formation--but it is.

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

Do they turn one to stone? Forks might turn one to plum pudding; dogs to bones; birds to seed. But don't forget, if you look at the head only as reflected in your shiny shield, you may come away unscathed.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

If the dogs turn one to bone and the birds to seed, then it gives new meaning to the phrase "feed your head."

[suzan-s.livejournal.com]

Crystal calligraphy....nice.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Done with very cold brushes.

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

The snow queen only knows one word, and that is "eternity."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know that's the word the ice forms when Kay is freed, but I like to think that there are all sorts of other things he learns and muses on, all cold and frozen, before Gerda rescues him.

[dinahprincedaly.livejournal.com]

i don't know why but this ice-writing gives me the chills in the same way scratching a chalkboard gets my teeth

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I can sort of imagine that!

[88greenthumb.livejournal.com]

If you didn't say it was ice in the beginning, I would have thought it was some kind of plastic bag tossed by the wayside long time ago and slowly disintegrating (biodegrading? ...I doubt )

Love the Medusa doodles-unique, all of them, especially the one with the inexplicable fish head;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like the medusa doodles--I'd like to do more one day (though I know, realistically, that I probably never will....)

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Because they are on my mind lately, I imagined a medusa with flamingo heads for hair. Her nickname was "pink".

Like so many others, I too saw ice graffiti.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I like the thought of a medusa with flamingo heads. It would work as well as snakes, don't you think?

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Wow, that ice is AMAZING! What a find.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love its furious energy--like graffiti, as others have said.

Alternative medicine for alternative Medusae

[shveta-thakrar.livejournal.com]

I love your mind. :D

Re: Alternative medicine for alternative Medusae

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My mind sometimes feels like thin ice! But I'm glad to have friends to share random thoughts with.

[deponti.livejournal.com]

You and your family are so talented in EVERY direction :) Enjoyed the ice-script!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You would have enjoyed being at the table with the ninja girl and I as we waited for Little Springtime--you enjoy wordplay, and picture play is much like that.