Back in the day, my grandparents had a big drawer filled with skeleton keys that didn’t really seem to go to anything. It was deeply evocative yet ultimately frustrating—like a shelf full of novels in an unknown language or a secret passage in the back of a painting. Today’s post is like that as well. Here are beautiful keys to unknown locks. Larger context is missing.
This post is almost like a Flickr gallery. And yet the keys are very beautiful. Plus it has been forever since we featured a Gothic post (and I like to have a few Gothic posts during the holidays when night is ascendant). Ferrebeekeeper might be running out of Gothic posts. Maybe we have mined that seam dry or do any of you have any ideas? Is there another locked door somewhere that this key goes to?
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December 17, 2015 at 10:26 AM
Alexandra Class Freeman
Hi, I am a postdoctoral researcher interested in requesting permissions to use your image of the African Wildcat doing a flip while hunting doves. Is this image yours? if not, might you send me a contact info for the original photographer?
Much appreciated,
Alexa
December 19, 2015 at 1:59 PM
Jamila Smith
You sure know how to frustrate readers – in a good way! I like the comparisons to paintings with secret passages and foreign books.