"To me, the great promise of homeschooling is that one day your child might, on their own initiative, ride the New York City subways dressed in a homemade, needlefelted costume modeled on the ice-skating bird messenger from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Temptation of St. Anthony. ... Even the tiniest creature produced by this method is a labor intensive proposition, wherein loose woolen fibers are soaked, soaped, and jabbed with a needle until they come together in a rough mat, suitable for shaping into the whimsical—or demonic—figure of its creator’s choosing. Stimson matched her full-head bird mask to the one in the painting by equipping it with gloves, a blanket cloak, long velvet ears, and a leafless twig emerging from the spout of its hand-painted funnel hat. ..."
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Hieronymus Bosch: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Lisbon, and Kansas City)
W - Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony
Hieronymus Bosch (c 1450–1516), The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Lisbon) (left wing, detail)
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