This week we looked at the 1907 edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salome which included 16 drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. I had never heard of this one act play before, so it was interesting to read through it and learn some of the context surrounding the play’s publication. Throughout the course (so far), I can better appreciate the importance of the image, text, and context connections because of all the important relations between the play, the drawings and Wilde’s story of creating the play. It is evident through Beardsley’s drawings that there was a focus on sexuality as a main theme from the play. These black and white drawings include lots of nudity and sexual references. The detail of these photos comes from the outfits the characters wear or parts of the background surrounding them. I found “The Woman in the Moon” to be a very intriguing photo because of simplicity in the outlines of the figures illustrated. Certain parts are shaded in black, but the rest of the illustration includes thin black lines that make up images we recognize. The face in the moon looks like it was carefully drawn but so faint as to not be recognized so easily and there is also one flower drawn right beside it.