Vintage Dragonfly Wall Clock familiar-bat nothing else

nothing else

since the contrast does most of the work in low light

over a near-black indigo ground flecked with gold

her cheek and brow filled with Celtic knotwork in green

Vintage Dragonfly Wall Clock familiar-bat nothing elseThe body runs down to six. A dragonfly is set dead centre with its four wings stretched out flat, the veining fine enough to read across the room and the membranes shading from teal to old gold. Its segmented body drops straight down the dial and finishes in a point near the bottom. Behind it a pale panel is ruled into faint squares like graph paper, and the outer face is mottled cream, rust and verdigris with heavy black Roman numerals over it. The