I had a little fun exploring some lovely books I haven’t a hope in hell of ever getting thanks to the auction at Christie’s. Hopefully some of these will end up where the public can admire them and not just insufferable rich misers. Radix malorum est cupiditas, as we all know. Pretty books. And another…
Tag: photography
Sounding Line – Mella Shaw
Sounding the alarm of the precarity of everything at the McManus: Mella Shaw’s Sounding Line installation offers an unsettling reminder that we are killing the world. Her immense white ceramic sculptures — modelled on the tiniest of inner ear bones of whales — attach to thick red ropes through which sonar pulses run. The same…
Tarot at the Warburg
Can’t get to the Warburg Institute for the amazing Tarot: Origins & Afterlives exhibit? Or you went and you want to relive the fun? I can help: I made a video of some photos so you can at least get a feel for it. Expect the usual caveats about photos of things in cases (odd…
Out Friday: MEANS Magazine
Out this Friday! MEANS MAGAZINE: Power. Privilege. Politics. issue. A multimedia extravaganza! It’s not just words and pictures but music too! Hop over to Bandcamp to pre-order the compilation. OR buy the physical form of the magazine and get it as a bonus! MEANS is a magazine dedicated to underground, experimental, and intermedial arts and…
Oracles, Omens & Answers
Take a journey with me through time and space — no, not that one! — but to the city of aquatint last month. I made a quick jaunt to London for the tarot exhibit I decided I could not miss and a few other things (more to come…) and because I flew into Luton I…
Shortlisted!
I was delighted to be shortlisted for the College of Psychic Studies annual art competition — along with folks like the wonderful Hazel Florez. The winners: Ancestor (Shell) by Mimei Thompson @mimei_t 1st runner-up: Inner Fire by Virginia Shepley2nd runner-up: Elements of Nature in Earth by Tejas Patel Judges’ choices:Water of Life by Emma DugganPsychic Symphony…
20×20 + Arcane Alchemy
Busy week ahead! Not one but two art openings and one big reception for both. Two photos and two charms in the 20×20 show: And in the big exhibit upstairs all kinds of magical pieces from Stephanie and me, which her beautiful poster hints at. You will be amazed! Paintings, sculpture, conceptual pieces, films, and…
Conjuring the Spirit World #Salem
A quick jaunt to Salem to meet up with art partner in crime QoE AKA Stephanie just so we could see this exhibit: Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic and Mediums. It was so much fun and if you have a chance to go, be sure to do so! We loved it and got so…
The Rowan Tree
Poem by Lady Nairne (1766-1845), born Carolina Oliphant: THE ROWAN TREE Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree, Thou’lt aye be dear to me, Entwined thou art wi mony ties, O’ hame and infancy. Thy leaves were aye the first o’ spring, Thy flow’rs the simmer’s pride; There was nae sic a bonny tree In a’…