Talismanic A6 Collages & Watercolours

from Anji Cheung

All pictures used are my own, taken around home in London or from travels overseas. Please note that lines are visible on some pictures, courtesy of my old printer. All collages are on 216gsm card and watercolours 300gsm watercolour card unless otherwise stated.

All are A6 (10.5 x 14.8cm) size and consecrated.

Catalogue numbers can be found clicking through the pictures - more details for each below:

OS029: Queen of the Night II - paper on card collage, images from London, Worthing and Palermo. The Queen of the Night thought to be Ishtar, Babylonia 1750 BC at the British Museum.

OS028: Brihaspati/Jupiter (Guru of Gods) - paper on card collage, images from London, Worthing, Palermo and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Sculpture from India, 13th century, British Museum.

OS027: Shukra/Venus (Guru of Demons) - paper on card collage, images from London, Palermo and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Sculpture from India, 13th century, British Museum.

OS026: Dionysiac Procession - paper on card collage, images from London, Palermo and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Marble relief of a maenad and two satyrs in ecstatic procession, Roman 4th Century BC, British Museum.

OS025: Phainon (Saturn) - paper on card collage, images from London, Palermo and Kathmandu. Shell inlay of two standing goats, Mesopotamia 2600 BC, British Museum.

OS023: Shakyamuni Buddha and two Bodhisattvas - paper on card collage, images from London, the Atacama Desert in Chile and a Chinese Buddhist Limestone Stele (at the V&A) from 544 AD, Eastern Wei dynasty.

OS024: Venus - paper on card collage, images from London and a Roman marble sculpture of Venus (at the British Museum). The statue was discovered in Ostia and was originally thought to be Ariadne, consort of Dionysos.

OS018: Queen of the Night I - Mixed media collage on card. Images from London, Kathmandu and the Queen of the Night thought to be Ishtar, Babylonia 1750 BC at the British Museum. Words from the Daughter of Fortitude oracle received by John Dee & Edward Kelley taken from Meric Casaubon's TFR, and cinnabar washed xuan paper.

OS019: Blood Lotus I ::: OS020: Blood Lotus II - Natural cinnabar ink and watercolour. The lotus flower is symbolic of purity and the emblem of Amitabha, the red Buddha of the west. Additionally, the flower is emblematic of female genitalia and red or pink lotuses are identified with love, longing and sexual desire. Cinnabar was used in Taoist alchemy and in Vajravahari initiations. Ritually it was symbolic of the magnetising power of love and desire personified as menstrual blood.

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