Friday, November 1, 2013

Macabre Matryoshka

ALL HALLOWS!
Card by Laura Osorno

Funeral Version
New Yorker, 25 March 2013

I couldn't resist these matryoshka cartoons for Halloween,
even though I usually tend to take the Matryoshka Motif pretty seriously:

The Mystery of the Matryoshka: Within Within Within

Dolls in Literature

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Laser Cut Russian Doll
by Paperchase

Christmas Version

Movie Version

Thanks Katie Field, Charlotte VanVactor,
and Mike Plecker!

3 comments:

  1. They seem perfect for Día de Muertos, Kitti! I have a set of Matryoshka (maybe Patryoshka is more apt?) dolls that someone bought on the streets of Moscow some years ago. They represent the former leadership of what was then the USSR.

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  2. Sounds like a very cool set of Patryoshkas, Susan!

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