Episode 8: Mostly the Fool card. Some quick thoughts with a few different examples and why it seems to permeate life at present. The Fool steps into the abyss: foolish or hopeful? Is the Fool deranged or just using that as a disguise? The Jester v The Vagabond–or are they all just disguises? Almost everybody…
Tag: Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington @ Rose Museum
A walk through the gallery taking a look at the drawings and paintings in this exhibit. If you can get there before it closes, don’t miss this! I thought it would be modest but it is full of riches — things I’ve not seen before and you know I see all the Carrington I can….
Open Your Heart of Wild Honey #PCA2025
In lieu of the usual #TarotTuesday Irreverent Tarot I give you a slapped-together live recording of my talk at PCA this past weekend, ‘Open Your Heart of Wild Honey’: Occult Medievalism in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet. I very lightly edited the audio so it’s still full of ahhs and umms and stumbles of various…
Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult: PCA New Orleans
I am so excited to be launching the new topic area DIVINATION, WITCHCRAFT & THE OCCULT at PCA this year which is back in the wonderful Crescent City, New Orleans. It’s such a fun conference — and not just because it usually means hanging out with Miss Wendy! — and there is probably no better…
Surreal Noir Ep 5 on YT
EPISODE FIVE [Original air date 24 Nov 21] Episode Five: Noirvember musings include stalkers, loneliness, travel and cows. Well, one cow anyway. This month noir fans watch the whole range of films that fall under that capacious umbrella, often including neo-noir along with the traditional black and white films from the 40s and 50s. *Content cautions for…
Surreal Noir: Ep2 on YouTube!
Episode Two is now live! EPISODE TWO Original Audio 25 Aug 21 Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from a picture? What about self-portrait? How do you conjure the image of yourself? How much do you reveal? How much do you…
Surreal Noir: Ep1 on YouTube!
I’m finally in the Noirvember spirit! It’s been a busy time, that’s my excuse. But when I saw that YouTube was now hosting podcasts, I thought it would be the perfect time to hotwire SURREAL NOIR and get back into the rat race. It’s going to take a bit of doing, because I have to…
Be Surreal: The Game
Try my FREE game you can play in any browser — and on a laptop, tablet or phone! Click this: BE SURREAL Do you want to be surreal? Do you find yourself thinking about the immortality of the crab? Do you often play croquet with flamingos? Do your fingers itch to make collages? Or do you simply…
Hyena Pre-Order!
Available for pre-order now! Click here. HEXENTEXTE announces the publication of HYENA to mark the centennial of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism. Edited by Cindy Rehm and Adrienne Walser, the publication includes works that look to the legacy of women’s surrealism, explorations of identity, inner-life, corporeality, ritual, eroticism, animality, and mortality. Inspired by Leonora…
Hyena
HEXENTEXTE announces the publication of HYENA to mark the centennial of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism. Edited by Cindy Rehm and Adrienne Walser, the publication includes works that look to the legacy of women’s surrealism, explorations of identity, inner-life, corporeality, ritual, eroticism, animality, and mortality. Inspired by Leonora Carrington, we took the hyena as…