Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>A selkie for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MerMay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MerMay</span></a> (the mermaid 🧜♀️ celebration month)! </p><p>This is a hard-carved and printed lino block print of a selkie shedding her skin, seated on rocks, surrounded by harbour seals. In Celtic, Norse, Faroese and Icelandic mythology, selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or selkie folk meaning 'seal folk' can change from seal to human form by shedding their skin. 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/selkie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selkie</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/harbourSeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harbourSeals</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/silkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silkies</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mermaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mermaid</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>