My schedule includes two academic presentations because I bent the rules slightly to talk about Strange & Norrell (not just an excuse to show Charles Vess’ glorious illustrations!) and a bit about Scots literary history as there is a special track for that. My topics: SCOTLAND’S FIRST FLIGHT: 1507 In 1507 alchemist John Damian flew…
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London: Expressionists
The first afternoon in London I had planned to go to the Fashion & Textile Museum but forgot just how much worse afternoon traffic in The City has become especially with summer road works so when the bus announced it was ending the route at St Paul’s and going no further I took it as…
London: The Boyfriend
Despite my aim to take a relaxed approach to London — and really, the aim was to get to Leonora in Sussex — and just do ‘a few things’ I find I have a lot of photos to share with you so how to begin? Rather than my usual temporal arrangement, I decided to begin…
Helsinki
I was glad to spend the fourth of July mostly in Helsinki having lunch with a friend and buying gifts at the Moomin shop. The ferry over from Tallinn is a smooth trip across the gulf in the early hours. I dozed and watched the waves. Helsinki seemed so cacophonous after a few days in…
Medieval Tallinn
Owls, amber (a green man!), cobblestones, a well, a dragon, a composer, towers, walls, gardens, monks, and Alexander Nevsky’s church! Many more photos to come! Click to embiggen any individual image.
Leonora @ Kumu
The first of the Tallinn posts: I was considering getting down to Tartu to see the Estonian Surrealist exhibit, but there just wasn’t time in my schedule. Oh but wait — posters around town advertising Leonora at the Kumu? Yes, please. Enjoy the vicarious visit to the exhibit, where I made the docent nervous by…
Ripley & Saltburn
I’m off to the EUPop conference soon — my last formal academic conference (probably, maybe–except for pop culture…) — and because I won’t get around to other things before I depart, here’s a peek at my slides for that talk on two related topics (with a bunch of other things [surrealism!] shoehorned in because that’s…
Birmingham Beauties
More anon, but some snaps to see the lovely sights in central Birmingham. Yes, I will give you a lot more on the Victorian Radicals! In fact I will make a reel, I think, And of course more on the Magickal Women Conference — so full of ideas and sparks. And yes, I was on…
V&A Dundee: Kimono
I endeavoured to not take eleventy billion photos and mostly managed. The V&A exhibit is fascinating and overwhelming and gives both the history of the kimono and how it continues to be inovated both within and without Japan — yes, including that Sparks LP, Freddie Mercury, Star Wars, Björk and Alexander McQueen. I am endeavouring…
Chicago & PCA
I am woefully behind on news. I blame losing my job, way of life and all, but at least I am not under literal siege, so there’s that. PCA is always a much anticipated because there are so many people I only see there these days, including the always delightful Miss Wendy, my roommate in…