Seeing Red.

Sooo,
It's that time of the month, and I'm having one of those months.  Not the easy kind, but the kind that's a lot like having a nasty, messy version of the flu.
However, I've been noticing some of the beauties of it, and, being an artist, I want to document it. 


The problem is, no matter how much I highlight the um, "vivid" aesthetics in a pleasing manner, it will always end up looking like the nastier kind of 80s feminist art.  You know which stuff I'm talking about.  If you don't, don't look it up.  You probably didn't want to know.


So, having no way to show you that, here are 12 pictures, highlighting the color red that actually are beautiful.  One for every month of the year.


But first, a word from Ms. Dolly Parton:
PMS Blues

 artwork by Mary O'Malley

 a beautiful whole cloth baby quilt

 Rita Hayworth. nuff said.

 Illustration from Owen Jones's Islamic Decoration and Ornament

 more Owen Jones

 the inside cover of "The Cock and the Hen ill. by Rudolph Mates

 an amazing floral arrangement by Sarah Ryhanen.  I believe she does her own photography too.

Florian Maier-Aichen

 a really wonderful "mosaic" quilt done by a korean woman, actual name unknown.

best stamp. ever.