This week has been rather more hectic than expected so I’m jumping around and the roulette wheel lands on Surrealism in Berlin — specifically the exhibit at the Neue Nationalgalerie ‘Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism’. Some helpful fellow (sorry, don’t think I got a name) came up at the end of my…
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Hilma’s Plants
I hit this fabulous MOMA exhibit in the spring with the fabulous QoE Stephanie before I ran off to Dundee for the summer, but realise I never posted pix. Here’s a small selection (so hard to choose). It moves from the more familiar mode of abstract psychic phenomenon to the direct from nature renderings (with…
Irreverent Tarot 4 & 5
It’s typical of me to have done all the things with the most recent episodes of Irreverent Tarot *except* actually posting them here. Episode 4: Surrealist tarot! Well, the Jeu de Marseille which isn’t technically tarot but tarot-adjacent for sure. episode 5: The amazing Xul Solar, surrealist, futurist, polyglot language creator, gamester and yes, tarot…
Surreal Noir Ep6 on YT
EPISODE SIX Original Audio 23 Dec 21 Episode Six: In the darkest days of the year we tend to hide; with good reason – who knows what might lurk in the dark. Even if it’s only a couple of teenage girls…but wait. Why are their hands so bloody? This episode explores the fact, fiction, and…
David Lynch in AMP
Matt Marble put out a call for contributions to a special issue of the AMP journal on the sounds of David Lynch, so I wrote a score. It’s included in this special release chock full of information and tributes. If you don’t know about the American Museum of Paramusicology, you probably should so check it…
Surreal Noir: Ep4 on YT
EPISODE FOUR Original Airdate 20 Oct 21 Episode Four: Folk Horror – This episode takes as its text Dorothy B. Hughes’ desert noir classic Ride the Pink Horse. A gangster follows a man from Chicago to a small town in New Mexico, seeking revenge. He finds another world in the midst of a distinctly folk…
Calcanthum (2019)
As I work furiously away behind the scenes on both my forthcoming online course HOW TO KEEP WRITING WITH A FULL TIME JOB (ironically, finally have time to put it together because I do not) and on ARCANE ALCHEMY the forthcoming exhibit with the Queen of Everything AKA Stephanie Johnson, I have been assembling my…
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…
Anaïs Nin by Louis Andriessen
When looking for one thing you often find another: I came across this DVD of a theatre piece I did not know at all from 2010. I have been enamoured of Nin since coming across her diaries as a teenager. All part of the thread of surrealism that runs through my life, from Alice onwards,…