Her Embow'r'd Enigma

An outgrowth of eight years of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley research the below drawings incorporate her imaginatively embow'r'd content in which ‘unknown things’ may be discerned through an inspired investigation.

Summer Flies

The Bear with Händel’s Hair

& syllogistic reasoning

Forêt de Fontainebleau

"[. . .] to see the sunshine of prosperity overshadowed by the sublime gloom of misery [. . .]"

An untitled drawing created with the following quote in mind:

"[. . .] the intricate subject of their immortality [. . .]."

Darke Parquet

The image, generally speaking, derives from Volney's Ruins: "Because the head of a family could be absolute in his house, he made his own affections and desires the rule of his conduct; he gave or resumed his goods without equality, without justice; and paternal despotism laid the foundation of despotism in government." 

Dangerous Intersections

A grouping of detailed elements from a more complete drawing. The overall subject of this image pertains to a life comprised of disregard—if not pure contempt.

The Divine & The Mortal

This drawn image is that of a cosmology framed by marbled paper with a grisaille world as its center. The elemental components, of which here comprise the detail fotos, have their basis within the content of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's writing. In this sense Nature is allegorically aligned with the human condition.