the black cloth with the white ribbon covering handle is the Victorian sign of mourning for the loss of a young person & the wheat in the wreath represent the circle of life.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
travels + adventures ~ heritage square
More pictures from the Victorian Halloween festivities at Heritage Square..... you know those crazy old little houses off the 110 freeway entering South Pasadena. The best part was the staged Victorian funeral/mourning ceremony. I can never get enough hair filled mourning jewelry and post-mortem mourning photographs. These photographs served less as a reminder of mortality than as a keepsake to remember the deceased as photographs were rare and especially with children this might be the only photograph you had of them.
the black cloth with the white ribbon covering handle is the Victorian sign of mourning for the loss of a young person & the wheat in the wreath represent the circle of life.
the black cloth with the white ribbon covering handle is the Victorian sign of mourning for the loss of a young person & the wheat in the wreath represent the circle of life.
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Oooh, love that photo of the window with the lace curtain. You totally know there's a witch behind there. Spooky!
ReplyDeleteCompletely awesome.
ReplyDeleteGood pictures! I want a life full of all the lovely details as well, brass doorknobs, steampunk laptops.. I've even considered paying a ton of money to own my own Victorian post mortem photos, as if it would bring me closer to the mystery somehow. I think I'm getting better accepting that I can't possibly own everything I like, and instead just be happy that they exist in the world somewhere. Sigh. I'm a hoarder trying to reason with myself in the face of limited life expectancy. If I was a vampire, and lived forever so I could OWN stuff forever, and hoarding wouldn't just be an abandoned, useless project the day I died, I would own soooooo much... I would go on Ebay this very moment and get myself some authentic Victorian post mortem photos. And a brass doorknob, for, you know, when I get a house with a door of my own.
ReplyDeleteHahah, eva, I think we are one in the same! I often contemplate my hoard of crap....and while watching hoarders last night they said, "just because you like it doesn't mean you have to own it" and I was amazed that had never crossed my mine before.....
ReplyDeleteThough I have never thought to or tried to stage Memento Mori photos...that's pretty amazing!
I think you should do it some mourning photos with mr. toad!
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