Le Journal des Theriomorphes

watercolor painting by Milo Duke, theriomorphs jumping over chairs Nikki acting anything but his age.  The amour of
the moment was probably one of the Lauras. VERY
ACROBATIC!!!  How true to type Nikki is;
breeding will always tell.

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The Queen boating in the lagoon at TousLeMonde, with her dear friends Berthe and Ingrid.  The summer of '07; how long ago that seems now.

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 watercolor painting by Milo Duke, theriomorphs in canoe, monkeys on dock
watercolor painting by Milo Duke, Lake Union, Seattle, dirigible, crew races, theriomorphs, pookas, tall ships, harbor Nikki in his glory days coaching at the Academy.  You can see the enthusiasm for crew during those years; this is 1912, I think, when almost all the pookas would turn out.  There is Nikki in the coaching boat urging the lads on.
   
Nikki in the Mexican desert searching for the lost city of Tula.  Summer of 1913 and the best year of his life, Nikki says.  The pooka is Harvey LaPin who later moved to America.

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 watercolor painting by Milo Duke, theriomorphs, horses, mexican pyramids, steampunk instruments
   
watercolor painting by Milo Duke, theriomorphs dancing with swords A photo from that famous expedition again; the Prince and Nikki doing Le Danse d'Iskandar.
   
 

 

The Prince and the General Staff coming ashore in 1914.  How proud he seems here before all the loss and suffering.  The beginning was so fine and the ending so bitter.

 

 

 

 watercolor painting by Milo Duke, theriomorph general staff coming ashore on gangplank, ankh.
   
watercolor painting by Milo Duke, reindeer theriomorphs in snow, ankh. Nikki and the jolly old elf's flight crew.  That's him without his overcoat pretending that he's not cold.  They are all listening so attentively to old Prancer; he must have been pontificating, the old dear.  This is from the winter of 1915 and it's so sad I can hardly bear it.  Just a few days after this was taken they were shot down over the front and all were lost. So many dear friends lost in that war.
   
March or April 1916.  A Zepplin went down near Headquarters and Nikki was there with his camera.  The crewman on the right is just beginning to transcend the physical plane.

 

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 watercolor painting by Milo Duke, zepplin, dirigible, german soldiers, iron cross.
   
watercolor painting by Milo Duke, pooka, Hermes, Mercury, WW1 battlefield, smoking cigarette, ankh Hermes at the front.  I don't recognize the pooka, but the photo must have been taken in 1917 because that's when Nikki and Hermes were together. It just breaks the heart to see what happened to the chateau: all that beauty gone forever.
   
The Easter Rising, 1918, and again Nikki is there with his camera.  He made contacts with the PLF that later proved to be very valuable and which he maintains to this day. Watercolor painting by Milo Duke, careening truck with revolutionary pooka theriomorphs, Brandenburg Gate, ankh
   
watercolor painting by Milo Duke, theriomorphs at tea table with President Woodrow Wilson at Versaille Conference. Nikki at Versailles sitting at tea 
with the Prince and Mr. Wilson from America.  Nikki says that Mr. Wilson was very droll, always entertaining them with games and conjuring tricks.
   
Our little Shirley at the Louvre with the faithful Alice Lapin who has been a childhood friend to three generations.  Nikki says that this Nike is a fitting memorial to the war because it has no head.

 

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 watercolor painting by Milo Duke, pooka theriomorph, little girl with ribbons in hair, Nike, Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre

 

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