WOLF AND STAG

«Winter is coming»

«Ours is the fury»

«In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, by the word of Eddard of the House Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, I do sentence you to die.»

 

                                                                                                          

 

Scene no 43: The Iron Throne (HBO official licensed product sculpted by Gentle Giant Studios, Dark Horse Deluxe) and the Weirwood Tree (Snow globe, HBO official licensed product sculpted by Gentle Giant Studios, Dark Horse Deluxe, number 0065 of 1,200). On one side the Direwolf of the House Stark (Bookend, modeled after the direwolf statues that guard the crypts of Winderfell), and on the other the crowned Stag of the House Baratheon (Board game accessory).

The text: From Α Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin.                                           

AFRICA

«The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote from the night of first ages—could comprehend.»

                                                     

 

 

                                                      

Scene no 42: African big game hunting. Black hunters (Elastolin and Preiser Elastolin 7cm figures) and running Elephant (Elastolin soft plastic animals).

The text: From The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.

THE TYRANNY OF CONSCIENCE

 

The puppet is carved from the heart, but the conscience is carved by the mind. 

And Pinocchio will become a real boy, if he proves himself brave, truthful and unselfish...

                                                      

Scene no 41: The wooden puppet Pinocchio and his conscience Jiminy Cricket. (Enesco, Jim Shore, Disney Traditions, #4005220 Carved From The Heart and #4005219 Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide).                              

ANIMA

 

«The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc...»

 

 

                                                    

                                     

Scene no 40: The Man shows the Boy the nature of the Woman (Preiser HO 10439 Nude Bathers &  Noch HO 15958 Nude models, HO 15959 Ladies of the Night).

The text: From TWO ESSAYS IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Carl Jung.

SLAYING THE DRAGON

«How best to kill dragons has been the subject of many a debate. 

The method most favoured by chivalry is to engage it in battle when on horseback, and to so manage the lance that it slides effortlessly between the dragon’s jaws.»

 

 

                                                    

                                     

                            

Scene no 39: Knight and Dragon (McFarlane toys, Dragons Quest for the Lost King, Berserker Clan Dragon vs. Human Attacker).

The text: From THE DRAGON, Nature of spirit, Spirit of nature, by Francis Huxley.

NIKE

«It was rather that the astronauts were the core of some magnetic human force called Americanism, patriotism or Waspitude, and if they were finally the men of all the men on earth to take the first step on the way to the stars, who was to say it was not the first step back to the stars, first step back to joining that mysterious interior material of the stars, that iron of communion with cosmic origins?

Indeed, who could be absolutely certain that the astronauts were not men finally forged out of some powerful equivalent in their blood of the star’s iron...»

 

 

                                                    

 

 

Scene no 38: The iron trinity of Astronauts (PAL plastic Toy soldiers, made in Greece) around a vintage Space Rocket (Masuya Toys, tin litho rocket NIKE SR-7, friction powered, with box, made in Japan).

The text: From MOONFIRE, by Norman Mailer.

THE GREEN GOD

«...Your punt is about to nose silently out into new backwaters of horror where the trees are heavy with untried fruits that look both beautiful and poisonous.

Though unused to the currents here, I hope you don’t get lost, and the vivid and toxic delicacies on display are to your tastes.»

                           

 

                 

 

Scene no 37: Green Man (Swamp Thing, McFarlane Toys, DC Multiverse Action Figure) and his red woman (Poison Ivy, Diamond Select Toys, DC Gallery PVC Figure).

The text: From an introduction by Alan Moore, to the The Saga of the Swamp Thing.