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I draw a picture once a year or so.

I would like to do more of that, but I perhaps got too much absorbed in Snark hunting:

Besides being an engineer, I am a very occasional cartoonist and photographer. After I accidentally stumbled over some puzzles in Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, my main reason for using Flickr is Snark hunting.

In Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, the intertextuality of the poem is paralleled by the interpictoriality of Henry Holiday's illustrations.

To Carroll/Dodgson, Snark hunting perhaps was truth hunting. If you want to read about what I am doing here: artsciencefactory.fr/2011/02/04/par-gustave-dore-et-par-h... explains it to you - in French, sorry. (more links: goetzkluge.artsciencefactory.fr/2011/02/26/liens/)

Through Henry Holiday I also learned to know the Pre-Raphaelites. Initially I had mixed feelings about their works (as well as about Holiday's stained glass art). But I developped some respect for what could be perceived as kitsch at a first glance. At a second glance I found out, that e.g. Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents was even more subversive than its Victorian beholders thought. I guess that if they would have discovered his references to another painting (Edward VI and the Pope), Millais would have been in even more trouble than he was already in 1850. Under the camouflage of what looks a bit pathetic from a 21st century point of view, J. E. Millais and Henry Holiday (there may be others too) played an interesting (and even funny) game. Holiday noticed Millais' conundrum painting and responded to it in the artist's way.