Aphrodite by Rebecca Guay. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of Love. Contrary to some modern beliefs, it is not only romantic love that Aphrodite rules. She is responsible for compassion, generosity, charity, empathy, beauty, and protection. Named "Born from the Sea Foam", the goddess is almost always shown emerging from the sea, born a full-grown adult. Here, Guay portrays her as a child with mesmerizing, acuminous eyes that simultaneously evoke the feeling of safety and the desire to protect.

Lao Tzu by Heather Kreiter. Perhaps a myth, perhaps an synthesis of several Taoist Sages, or perhaps simply one old, wise man, Lao Tzu is the author of the Tao Te Ching.  Legend suggests that Lao Tzu (at age 160), because of his malaise over the moral decay of the city, was attempting to leave with his water buffalo to live as a hermit. The sentry would only allow him exit if the "Venerable Master" would convey his wisdom and knowledge. Lao Tzu (which actually means, 'Venerable Master') climbed down from his water buffalo and contemplatively penned the 81 verses that are now considered the Tao Te Ching. The master was allowed to pass, and in some traditions it is believed that he eventually tutored a great student, Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha. 

Arrow Collar Advertisement of 1929 by Joseph Christian Leyendecker. On the backside of this advertisement a landscape was printed so that when the ad was no longer in use, it could be flipped and used as decoration. So it encouraged the bizarre amalgamation of materialism and recycling.