Faux Postage From Amphitritonia

FROM THE ROYAL POST OFFICES OF AMPHITRITONIA

Art Stamps by Eric Whollem

                                                         The Egyptian Mermaid
                                                         2001
                                                         edition of 100
                                                         by Eric Whollem
                                                             Copyright by the artist

  AMPHITRITONIA

                                                           

                                            In the northwest of the continent of Amphora lies
                                            the land of Amphitritonia, bound by Mt. Krater and
                                            the River Naiad. The capital city is Ichthys; and the

                                            monetary unit is the copper Cythera. Aphrodite rules

                                            the realm in her triple function as Dove, Swallow, and

                                            Swan, while Poseidon pontificates over matters

                                            aquatic from his retreat in Ceto, the metropolis of the

                                            dolphins. While Italian artists like Botticelli loved to

                                            portray Aphrodite rising from a huge clam shell and

                                            while the Mesopotamians had her emerging from

                                            dove's eggs, the Amphitritonian traditionalists

                                            maintain that the cowrie is the proper birth shell of

                                            Aphrodite.

                                               

Making Earth Paints/ PAINTS FROM RAW NATURAL MATERIALS: MINERALS, CLAY, ASH, CHARCOAL, ETC./ With notes on the uses of volcanic pumice from Mt. Shasta

     Alaya

     1976

     earth, clay and charcoal in casein on panel

     by Eric Whollem

     Collection of the artist

         Copyright by the artist.

Paint Made From Raw Natural

Materials: Earth, Clay, & Ash

In 1973 I began to make my own paints from scratch, using
earth pigments that I gathered in nature. I was living in the