K.A. Laity's Blog, page 16

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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.

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... Read More

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... Read More

Write 4 a Day 14 Jul 2024

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... Read More

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... Read More