Every day, between yesterday and tomorrow - 5

(or the Captive in Captivity)

These recent photos of spiderwebs I took in Hadley make me think of Erte's delicate costume drawings with their long strings of pearl and stone. I wonder if he got to walk the country fields on early foggy mornings, once he became the fashion king or Paris. But his designs seem to be inspired not only by the visions of far-away exotic lands (no, the rural US wouldn't be one of them), and by the tastes of his highly sophisticated Parisian clientele, but also by these kinds of ephemeral patterns found in nature.

Erte's Design Images:

Pearls. Media : Graphic Edition, Embossed Serigraph

Queen of the Night. Media : Graphic Edition, Embossed Serigraph with Foil Stamping

Embossed serigraph with foil stamping. July 1990, 35" x 56", Chromacomp, New York
Costume designs for the Diamond in Les Pierres Précieuses, Folies-Bergère, Paris, 1923 and Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, New York, 1924, Gouache, 14 x 10-1/2 inches

Erte's image source: http://erte.ru and http://www.erte.com