Desirée
My blogs
- Phée Adornments
- A Harp at the Threshold
- KeyStoneWillow
- Cervid Dance
- the art & writing of Desirée Isphording
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Lehigh County, PA, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | I am a multi-media artist inspired by myth, folklore, and the numinous realm of Faery. |
| Interests | abandoned places, Alan Watts, ancient cultures, animals, animism, anthropology, antiques, art, art as shamanism, art dolls, art history, art nouveau, Asian art, autumn, beading, beauty, bellydance, birds of prey, body modification, bones, books, carousels, Celtic harp, Celtic music, cemeteries, comparative religion, culture, deer, divination, doll making, drawing, ecopsychology, ephemera, faerie, faery, faery art, fairy, fauna, feathers, feminism, feri, flora, folk instruments, folklore, foxes, frogs, funerary sculpture, gardening, gargoyles, genius loci, gothic architecture, graphic design, graveyards, grotesques, haiku, herbalism, illuminated manuscripts, illustration, Japanese gardens, kayaking, Lake Nockamixon, language, linguistics, magic, medicinal plants, Mirabai, music, mysticism, mythic art, mythic arts, mythology, mythopoetic art, myths, nature, nature spirits, northern renaissance art, not having children, owls, pagan art, paganism, painting, Pennsylvania wildlife, perception, phaerie, philosophy, photography, poetry, poisonous plants, reading, religion, runes, sculpting, sensuality, sexuality, shamanism, shapeshifters, snails, spellcraft, spirituality, symbolism, symbols, Taoism, tattoos, the transcendentalists, thunderstorms, toads, tombstone art, totems, traditional witchcraft, trees, unconventional beauty, vintage books, wabi-sabi, website design, wildflowers, witchcraft, world music, writing, zen |
| Favorite Movies | Pan's Labyrinth, Edward Scissorhands, Amelie, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Shawshank Redemption, The Pestige |
| Favorite Music | Tori Amos, Simon & Garfunkel, Laura Veirs, Fiona Apple, The Decemberists, Niyaz, Bjork, Djinn, Mum, The Shins, Joanna Newsom, Knossos, Broken Social Scene, Capercaille, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Smashing Pumpkins, ELO, Solace, Pentaphobe, Mary Jane Lamond, Beats Antique |
| Favorite Books | The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram, A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman, The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill by Robin Artisson, Go to your Studio and Make Stuff by Fred Babb, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher, Faeries by Brian Froud & Alan Lee, The Misson of Art by Alex Grey, The Philospher's Secret Fire by Patrick Harpur, The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren, Drawing Closer to Nature by Peter London, The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, American Primitive by Mary Oliver, For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai translated by Andrew Schelling, Nature Man and Woman by Alan Watts, The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu Yanagi |